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Premium Member Johnny Appleseed
Our old friend Johnny Appleseed
Was a bit of a kook all agreed
Always wore a tin pot on his head
Kept himself dry and also well fed

Johnny...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, environment, history, humor,
Form: Clerihew



Johnny Appleseed
"Johnny Appleseed" is a children's song, sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the 
Republic".

Oh, do you know the story of Old Johnny...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, children
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Johnny Appleseed
Johnny was a lover of God's country
who roamed cherished land because he was free.
A skilled outdoorsman with backcountry charms,
he donned a burlap sack with holes...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, adventure, dream, earth, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
A Garden of Love
I'll bring the avocados
And feed you as you come for safaris
Like my mother did, further beyond the Kalahari
And we can share the dips, the spreads...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, humanity, , sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Old Preacher Lewis
Back in the early 30's and 40's in Southern New Mexico
Was a traveling preacher watching over his herd
Never had a church like we know
He did...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: johnny appleseed, people
Form: I do not know?



Bad Apple Can Be Useful
basket of green and red apples 
fullscreen fruitful seeds planted 
rotten apples in my eyes
have no demise
I find useful rotten fruit laying
in the middle of...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, color, columbus day, earth,
Form: Light Verse
Mrs B
How do I Thank You 
for watching over my child 

investing your 

time 

energy 

focus 

and 

passion 

in him  

Every  

day? 

How do...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, children, education, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry
Operating At a Loss
I
How long have I been doing this
Throwing my time & money
Into a hole
Filling up notebooks
Mining overheard conversation
For lines
Squeezing the sponge
Of my wine soaked
Mind
Into the bucket
Of...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, anger, destiny, political,
Form: Free verse
The Common Room
there's something now in America's room
to give us a sense of uncommon gloom

may be a smart guy, a financial advisor
with a hundred minus 99 an...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: johnny appleseed, philosophy, political, tree, tree,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Inageration Day 2009 / President Barack Obama
A  is for the apple trees of Johnny Appleseed, 
    planting economic freedom 
    from sea to shining...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, politicalsea, sea,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Jackie Reads To Bunnies
Jackie sat on a hill outside and began to read.
He was chastised by one Johnny Appleseed.
Why do you waste your time? Come help me get...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Apple With Notes
::::::::::::::::::::::::  APPLE


     Never true from seed
     wild card with every new sprout
    ...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, adventure, allegory, america, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Transaurius
Transaurius

Divined from a thousand novellas
On the cusp of hallucination
Somewhere between the monastery and the circus.........

Devoid of any specious goodness
Deficient in any and all pragma
Having escaped...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, 12th grade, allusion, animal,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Come On She Urged Fun Is What You Need
Let’s rhyme today Trixie said.
She thumped me soundly on my head.
Tweet Tweet Tweet Twee.
Bleat Bleat Bleat Blee.
Let’s dance around the poetry tree!

I was not in...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, muse, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Did He Do It?
Of Johnny Appleseed,
Two things we know.
He loved apples and walked alone.

For fifty some years he roamed the prairie.
He carried his seeds,
Planting them where no apples...

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Categories: johnny appleseed, september,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things