Best Shoo Poems

I was a competent, happy housewife, but that was before my husband died,
Leaving me to rear myriad children solo, as the lone star twinkles with pride.

John had left us a prosperous farm, with a lovely home, shaped like a shoe;
And our older children did farm...

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Have a Guiness and let’s toast St. Patrick
Whether laddie, lass or old codger geriatric
A bold gent with such clout
All Eire’s snakes he shooed out
Never has there been a saint so theatric! 
Robert
             ...

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they till the soil
with a simple plow
pulled by a horse
they've weaned

no electric
nor vast education
only hard work 
religious dedication

a simple people
of limited skill
yet a divine community
of love thy neighbor

you see them
on horse and buggy
a painful sight
for speedy drivers
who live life too fast
to notice a smiling beard

we...

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As I walked a ' black cat crossed my path 
I said shoo, I said scat
He stared, looking me in the eye
As if to ask me why.

It was as if to say "did the cat get your tongue'
I think he did, for his stare was...

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This fly's been avoiding me
As I have a fly swatter
He is quite a large horse fly
Finally he's near

He lands square on my shoulder
Can't swat him, he will bite me
And he did, ow, he can bite
Andrea's bitten

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Linda-Marie's "!!!BITE ME!!!" contest

4/6/2012...

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shoo ------ there's some one at door 
but why so ? so late night ?

is there any post man or any grocer ....
noooo it can't , any one who works at day but knock the door at night 

it is a ghost ? oh it...

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"There's a fox in the hen house father,
Whatever what shall we do."
"I'll fetch my gun my dear,
You start shouting shoo"

"I'm shouting shoo father,
But the fox, he still remains."
"I'm looking for my gun my dear,
Just you shout shoo again."

"Father I shouted shoo again,
But he carried on...

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*Image of Wildlife Control by APEX.

'Shoo' You Too

The amour of the eve, set the faces pleased,
The extent to engage, the moments were seized,
To placate the tone, their unions at ease,
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Shoo chong' nyong', you call yourself
And say Simiyu Wamalwa, a disk scratch
And say Nyongesa Wanyama, a bogus call
And say Selina Nekoye, a primitive label

Beef rice stew omelet, you poison yourself
And say cassavas, a rodent stuff
For rusero you say, herbivore stuff
As our own cock, you say...

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I gat lots of attitude
It’s not like you didn’t know
I will do as I please
Just so you know

What's it gatta do with you what I do?
Do I care what you do?
I am me and not you

I will strut and groove
And show anyone how I move
I...

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Last night, I had to shoo me away some sheep. 
Having to count 'em was keeping me from falling asleep.
Tonight, I do battle
with a big herd of cattle
that somebody, I’m sure, has prayed the Lord to keep.
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When offered a job to shoo flies
He said, "I just can not comply"
The job dismissed
He then said this,
"Their feet are too small to apply!"...

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late spring so I spy 
a fly goes by he wheezing 
buzzing in mine ear
~
so I swat at him
and  then say hey what's up, yo
me don't stink what's up
~
buzzing in mine ear
no stinky here just abundant
aroma of sweet

5/10/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr....

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Going, gasping, grasping for breath
Doing, dreading, dancing for death
Walking a mile away, just to be a mile near the end
Friend, fiend, foe all walk hand in hand. 
I leave, and the leaves rustle under my feet 
The sound of crunch leaves me sceptical, I feel...

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i change like the bacteria under my fingernails
daily

once i'm under the skin
i begin again

why?

it's because you 
metamorphose in every second

the shift in your eyes 
makes me realize
i know nothing
and enough

all

at the same time  ...

so,

i shoo away these bleus
that blew upon me like  
distinctly...

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