Best If You Ask Me Poems
Potatoes Forever If You Ask MeMy favorite vegetable is a potato
I will eat it fried, filleted, with salt and pepper.
Bring me butter
That won’t be enough
Some people add cheese.
I am not interested in that, unless it is cheddar
shaved, on the top of sour cream and chives.
Yes, I love a baked potato...
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Categories:
if you ask me, food,
Form:
Free verse
walking artwork if you ask meBubble balloon buffoon did not need jester hat
His costume designed by merry Cheshire cat
Argyle socks created by cirque du Soleil
Splattered paint on coat has much to say
A walking artwork, enhancing this weird Tuesday.
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Categories:
if you ask me, art,
Form:
Rhyme
If You Ask MeIf you ask me
How deep my love is
I wouldn't know the answer
For I will only reach the bottom in ever after
And if you ask me
to measure my heart
I'm afraid I would never see you again then
For the journey needs thousand years to end...
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Categories:
if you ask me, love, on writing and
Form:
Rhyme
Brilliant Question If You Ask MeThe competition is on at work.
Elementary school teachers
Most in their own queendom
Two in kingdoms
We are discussing job interviews
One question was really silly, Mrs. Bee told us.
“What was the last book you read?”
Made her really mad,
as she had not read
a book since college’s
required reading.
She is...
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Categories:
if you ask me, education, jobs, school, teacher,
Form:
Free verse
Four Weeks Too Long If You Ask MeHe threw himself into my arms
The second he landed in my driveway.
He will be five this week but he wanted up too.
I snatched him up.
He is my darling grandson, Max.
We had not seen each other for six weeks.
About four weeks too long…....
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Categories:
if you ask me, grandfather, grandmother, grandparents, grandson,
Form:
Free verse