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Borax Poems - Poems about Borax

A magnet for tsuris

...A magnet for tsuris

Summation notation of achievements
wrought absolute zero
pridefulness to self -
a veritable highstrong yoyo
(lame at walking the dog)
a solitudinarian devoid of xoxo
meth...
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Categories: borax, adventure, age, angst, baby,
Form: Free verse

glockenspiel and, marimbas

...The mole of a substance
Avogadro Constant
Molar mass
borax and colemanite
boron is derived
from these bornite
minerals
volcanic springs
orthoboric acid 
the most important of these is
rasor...
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Categories: borax, future, music, science,
Form: Bio



Premium MemberThe Stain Crusaders

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"The Stain Crusaders"

Plath left the pages long ago
and Bacharach’s Blue-on-Blue
is an ineffectual softer numb-shade-of-Blue
dear green green Anthropocene 

this m...
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Categories: borax, blue, dark, green, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Crunck and Jost

...The groom will keep his name
whilst she will change hers
to his. We talked over these things
as we constructed a home
that would become home to the new couple.
Some laughed when they asked us
t...
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Categories: borax, business, creation, culture,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberDanger Island Dumb-Dumbs

...We knaves had orders both explicit and dumb:
Scare the blazes out of a management bum.
Thunderstorm weather rocked wide Prince William Sound,
Feisty gales pouring rain all around.

My partner an...
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Categories: borax, animal, boat, drink, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberDream Girl

...My baby has bi-lateral bonbons.
She modulates her rhythm side to side.
She’s a twenty-mule team moving violation,
Her motives pure as borax, her methods bona fide.   
She stood naked in a shell a...
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Categories: borax, allegory, beauty, christmas,
Form: Burlesque

Premium MemberMulqueens Encore

...A scientist by the name of Mulqueen
Wanted to create a Patrick's day scene
Some borax he ignited
The Irish were excited 
When over town he sent clouds of bright green.

The crowds called an...
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Categories: borax, humor,
Form: Limerick

Watering Hole

...Apart from the worn stone-step
where drunks still topple
all has changed.
Now a neon glow backlights a plasticized fascia.

In the in the parking lot two blonds face-off.
one has extra-large ea...
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Categories: borax, poetry,
Form: Free verse

You'Re a Monster, Donny Dump

...Sung to, You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch, (extended version).
KP

You’re a monster, Donny Dump.
Some biiig-time twiiisted clooown.
To no end, I could deride you,
are no depths you didn’t fall to,...
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Categories: borax, america, celebrity, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Donald Trump: the Clorox Couplets

...Not-So-Heroic Couplets
by Donald Trump
care of Michael R. Burch 

To outfox the pox: 
kill yourself first, with Clorox!

And since death is the goal, 
mainline Lysol! 

No vaccine?
Just ch...
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Categories: borax, america, giggle, humor, humorous,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Premium MemberIf You See Pledge You Had Better Run

...Scrubbing Bubbles, Dreft, Life Buoy, and Shout.
Help me to get my greasy grimy out.
Irish Spring, Dove, Windex, Borax too,
I turn to them when I am blue.

Cleaning is something I resolve not to ...
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Categories: borax, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Cleaning Lady Explains Black Eye

...Please Officer, Mr. Clean is not like that,
though will admit that we had a little spat.
I used Pine Sol, and he wasn’t really happy,
but assure you that it never made him slappy.
Little Joy was ...
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Categories: borax, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Veteran's Day

...Veteran's Day
Tattered uniforms washed with borax and sunrays 
still house the bulging proud chests of older youth
Who uncompromisingly gave away their modeled freedom
For un-apathetic ideals bur...
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Categories: borax, memorial day,
Form: Free verse

Fuel For Thought

...Gas prices on the rise again? 
Folks don't know what to do? 
I've found a tiny solution, 
It's fuel made of doggie doo!

Several pints of canola oil, 
Perhaps an egg or two; 
Stir in a quart o...
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Categories: borax, funny,
Form: Quatrain

Food Lion, Fayetteville, North Carolina

...Her list includes croutons and jelly and jam,
as I read down, I see knockwurst and ham.
Bananas and tuna, pick up Borax and Bold,
if there's no Zest, then get Palmolive Gold.
Orange juice and lem...
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Categories: borax, food, funny, husband, places
Form: Rhyme

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