Questions about Sleepers in Space
...Astronauts sleep like bats
Hanging from the ceiling in bags
But this does not tell us about astro-cats
Do they sleep in cots made of rags?
What about astro-dogs and astro-pigs?
Are their bunks...
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Categories:
bigs, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Children Are On Crosshair
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.........................................INNOCENCE
..................................Oh! it is so very asleep
.........................As we grow up the bliss that we seek
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Categories:
bigs, children, corruption, evil, grief,
Form: Concrete
Lovely Memory of the Farm
...
I have a fond memory
of days spent on grandpa's farm
and helping grandma
early in the morning we collected eggs
and fed the chickens and other littles
grandpa fed the cows, horse...
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Categories:
bigs, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Autumn
...The wind, ruthlessly, has long been scattering gold through the streets.
Tons and tons of gold.
The air, your hands, and your lips smell like roasted chestnuts.
The wind, ruthlessly, has long been...
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Categories:
bigs, allah, autumn, beautiful, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Summer Laziness
...In Florida donuts all ‘round —
the whirlpool of kids as “bigs” frowned.
The force of the push
did wimple their tush
and throw them all off and they drowned.
6/10/2020
Cont...
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Categories:
bigs, dark, humor, summer,
Form: Limerick
Imagine This In the Future
...Imagine if the only non-destroyed manuscript in a thousand years are emojis and
text shorthands?
The only printed missive left is what we write to each other on a social media site,
and a Thesaur...
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Categories:
bigs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Take Off Your Pharaoh's Mask
...Take off your pharaoh’s mask, stay awhile.
Be not uppity for it does not suit you.
I like honesty,
For who does not?
Throw off your walls – the little ones and the bigs.
Toss them aside, for ...
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Categories:
bigs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Cousins Camp At Grandmas House
...We have Cousins Camp in Kansas City in the summer.
Any grandchildren who cannot come, says, “That’s a bummer!”
One year I let four of the bigs fill a garbage can up with water.
Each jumped in th...
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Categories:
bigs, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Where Art Sisyphus
...Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon
Tantamount to shrugging Atlas off mine bony...
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Categories:
bigs, absence, allegory, anxiety, deep,
Form: Free verse
Guess What
...Guess What
_____________________
There are bigs ones and small ones
short ones and long ones
straight ones and curved ones
trimmed ones and bushy ones
which one do you have?
( not that ...
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Categories:
bigs, allusion, humorous,
Form: I do not know?
Weather Change
...things or comming back
no sand bigs pack
to kept the hurracain out
no doudt
it was a godly thing
now its
WEATHER CHANGE...
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Categories:
bigs, adventure, confusion, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse
Pack Your Bags
...its time to goway
have some play
go country side
where gress is wide
mabe horse back ride
so no matter if your
a old hag
PACK YOUR BIGS...
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Categories:
bigs, adventure, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Little League
...The crack of the bat
It sails high over third base
The crowd stands and cheers
His first hit ever
He will never make the BIGS
Smiles from ear to ear...
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Categories:
bigs, childhood, life
Form: Senryu
The Three Little Bigs
...Once upon a time,
There were three Little- Bigs
(They were short, but fat.)
They knew the hungry wolf
Would like to pick them up,
And maybe score some ham,
So the three Little-Bigs,
All we...
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Categories:
bigs, funny, parody, satire,
Form: Burlesque