When I Bring Home a Deer
When I bring home a deer...
to live in our living room, my roommate
won't hear of it. Fear of what? I will ask.
He has no horns. He eats only oats, but
not yours only; I bought him some food.
He's not even hairy. I'm not even sorry
I brought him home. He'll sleep with me
on the floor of the
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Categories:
bring home, animal, pets,
Form: Free verse
Bring Me Home
I'd like to give you an ounce of perfume
that I borrowed from honeysuckle vine.
This scent is old, more lovely, one presumes
than French perfume always made by design.
This scent leads me back to my childhood days,
I hear ringing echoes of our voices,
running barefoot over hidden pathways--
days before we had to make life's choices.
Carefree days of locust
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Categories:
bring home, beauty, childhood, freedom, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Why I Bring Home Sticklefarts
I was scratched and scraped to smithereens,
But luckily had collected enough sticklefarts
to bake a pie, and make some tasty tartlsnidds with greens.
We have some cracklwhif, mom suggested with cozy hearts.
I ate a tiddlewad of hamburgers and some snackpoots to get ready
For the dessert hot out of the oven, and man was it
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Categories:
bring home, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Bats Bring Home Cat
Cauldron was lost somewhere during a storm full of fright.
It was a horrible angry windy October night.
His owner, Mac Witch was afraid for her kitty.
She sent out a search party led by Gargoyle McDitty.
They searched in every hollow tree, ditch and crevice tree trunk.
Cauldron was gone, and they had to finally give up and bunk.
Mac
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Categories:
bring home, cat, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Bring Home Repect
this is a need
indeed
and a fact
bring repect back
this is our town
to many our people down
look treated like a clown
this has to be set
BRING HOME REPECT
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Categories:
bring home, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse