Best Wee Poems

oh come, my dear little wee one
      what a long, full day you've had
         this is the last that you'll see sun
   but please, now, don't you be sad

the sun,...

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Another eve of another day
shrinks to wee hours;
the only light flashes dim
from a distant lamppost. 

My mind’s contrarily still charged 
with words, chores, lists, sacred places,
mountainous memories,
and then a thought that hasn't visited in awhile…of you.
You, a caricature of your best self,
a demon of strangled...

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Charmaine is the sweetest young lady
But her wee one's been driving her crazy
She can't keep up
It's overflowing her cup
She's really not getting a lot of sleep lately

© Jack Ellison 2015...

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My unfortunate uncle named Rick
Was endowed with a very small wick
But he was still quite able
To impregnate aunt Mable
Who gave birth to a son they called Dick

2nd April  2017 ...

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But Jan, is this a Limerick trick? 
Your family, truly, has no Dick and no Rick ... 
I could have sworn 
Since I, too, had been born 
my family had to have had one Mr. Dick!

(c)Deo.I could not bring myself to declare it as clearly...

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Hot apple pie Mom took so long to make

sat briefly on the shelf so temptingly!

Nobody thinks a sweet wee tot could take

hot apple pie Mom took so long to bake.

I’ve shut my mouth about my tummy ache.

One more vanished pie stays a mystery.

Hot apple pie...

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There is naught more important
This cold, rainy, winter day (to me)
Than to wrap up snugly by the window
And watch the world pass on it’s way

I’ve seen the grandest of canyons
Seen the grandeur of seaside beaches
Breathed mountain air, cold and rare
And have soared to the highest...

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Okay! Time to get off the weather kick

There's lots more to write about

Like how many jelly beans in a 2 quart jar

If you leave all the red ones out

Or why do pigs have such really flat snouts

A fart that did damage to an edifice

Or the...

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We’d read nursery rhymes by the bedroom light
In a magic land once upon a night.
You were just so big, so the story goes,
With a picture book, eating cheerios.
You had your mother’s smile and eyes of daddy blue
When the wee small hours were larger than you.

We’d...

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the pull of moon and stars my heart trills like a chime
i dream of rhyme and rhythm it happens all the time 



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on June 1, 2018 for contest WHEN ONE LINE IS NOT ENOUGH sponsored by SILENT ONE  - ...

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I found myself
a good wee bottle 
of 10 year old Irish whiskey 
under my wee Irish down pillow
that must have been placed there 
by the wee good leprechaun 
tooth fairy

I could not bring myself 
to hurt her wee feelings 
so I opened it up 
and...

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I wish I was a wee Willy Wagtail.
I've always wanted a tail to wag,
and Willy, really struts his stuff, just so. 
With a wiggle waggle
a parry, on garde, touché!
"Now that's a Tail!"

Willy Wagtail is willy-nilly, with attitude!
Flitting onto branch or wire
waggling his tail all about,
so...

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Some girls are brassy, some girls are flashy
Some girls are even a wee bit trashy
They give you a tweak
A tug on your cheek
Actually prefer girls that show a bit of their ass-y


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Well, Finn and Mc Gee 
Were riding along
Headed back home
When something looked wrong

So, Finn off his horse
Now looked all around
He said, "We are lost
But, there's something we've found"

"Look at this massive 
Whole in this plain
We'll never get home
This is insane"

"A canyon like this
What an unlucky...

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A green rose I send to thee
on the wings of a bird set free.

With it comes my deepest desires,
that burn in the midnight moon on radiant fires.

Your secret mole, hidden from the public eye
flashes in my memory, dancing on ambers as if suspended on wires.

My...

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