Sheblanka
...Sheblanka had a way with a cauldron that was serious to see
She is a distant conjuring cousin to both my step Daddy and me
We watched her bring forth monsters that were happy and red
She also brou...
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Categories:
bobsled, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Shh Babies Are Sleeping
...Shh! Babies are sleeping Dorie said.
Slumbering in dreamland with her Uncle Fred
Tummies full of dolly potatoes, they are amply fed
Especially after gulping down cinnamon bread
Two dreaming of ...
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Categories:
bobsled, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Fairyland of Fantasy
...The hills that once were gold and red
Are now a deep gray and barren instead,
Awaiting the first drape of winter’s white
Snow, or ice crystals sparkling in the light,
When they become...
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Categories:
bobsled, fun, winter,
Form: Rhyme
The Time Between Seasons
...Spring dresses bare trees with satin leaves of jade green
Sunlight's fingers touch daffodils, coaxing them to bloom
Robins bathe their wings in morning dew as they preen
On the breath of dawn ther...
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Categories:
bobsled, seasons, time,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Carnival
...Winter Carnival is here
The best time of year
The statue this year is a classic
An Ice-thyosauras - era, Jurassic
So many activities to choose from
Ice skate, double-date, be a ski bum...
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Categories:
bobsled, celebration, fun, snow, sports,
Form: Couplet
Take Me To Madagascar Please
...Take me to Madagascar, I said.
The time travel machine turned a brilliant red.
Pushed down hard on the acceleration ped,
We were soon at Archipelago’s head.
I thought these animals were all dea...
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Categories:
bobsled, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Our God Dances Over the Rainbow
...Over the rainbow their goes our God dancing with soo many souls. Did you know heaven is waiting. Searching through your inner love heart for answers, their is no debating. Higher then the wishing wel...
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Categories:
bobsled, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Head For the Hills
...Run! Head for the hills they said in streams
We ran for our lives amid little ones’ screams
My heart was thumping as if we were in bobsled teams
I woke up down river in my nightmare’s silliest dre...
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Categories:
bobsled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Street Boy Dies At Twenty Six
...Funeral of a street boy from Lawrence Kansas.
Handsome lad, bi-polar, twenty-six and a half.
Dressed like a bobsled team with fake heads some days.
His mother refused to renew his motorcycle licen...
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Categories:
bobsled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Picture This
...Picture this.
Two bobsleds.
Six reckless daredevil cousins
Each one of them hotheaded and determined.
Two giant dead-man-curve ski hills
That meet at the bottom two hundred feet down.
Loudest ...
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Categories:
bobsled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Bobbing Down the Hill
...bob
bobsled
bobblehead
bobbing bouncing
bawl
AP: Honorable Mention 2020, Honorable Mention 2021
Posted on March 10, 2019...
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Categories:
bobsled, fun, winter, word play,
Form: Lanterne
Maybe 2k11
...Perhaps too fearful to love or be loved?
Perhaps there's that special one to cry with?
Perhaps like a Bobsled I need be shoved?
Perhaps there's that special one to laugh with?...
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Categories:
bobsled, faith, introspection, love,
Form: Quatrain