Alfred in the wilderness
...Alfred and the wilderness
Alfred, who with the greatest of ease tells, he is not my father
and I went for a walk across a chlorophyll-filled field.
Alfred, who is a musician and never ventures o...
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Categories:
butted, abuse, age, angst, animal,
Form: ABC
Monorhyme Because they Make me Fresh
...The merry widow’s marvelous mincemeat melody
Was gradually heard around three by the old oak tree
Honestly said Bert, the bumblebee, is this the Grand Prix?
Miraculously, there was a royal red rev...
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Categories:
butted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
tree kangaroo
...leaf and fruit eater
big butted tree kangaroo
difficult to find...
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Categories:
butted, animal,
Form: Senryu
those days are gone
...I have five hobbies
Do them all day long now that I am retired
Cartooning, painting, poetry
Tv binge watching
Playing with my dogs
I used to garden
But my knees won’t bend any more
I swam and ...
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Categories:
butted, me,
Form: Free verse
the sky and I
...a fast moving sky
fluffy grays with glimpses of white
it looks like a foreign planet butted up against earth
I watch it calmly float by
trying to see if it is rotating on an axle
it senses my in...
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Categories:
butted, sky,
Form: Personification
bed buddies
...wet noses are cold
butted up against my face
overtaking the bed...
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Categories:
butted, animal,
Form: Haiku
100 per cent CAGE FREE
...Robins seem to enjoy my yard
Awaiting the coolness of dewed mornings
To awaken the wriggling worms
A seasonal offering favored by the feathered ones
Dandelion waiters tend to the color and flav...
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Categories:
butted, garden, nature,
Form: Verse
Smokey Wilson
...Smokey hailed from someplace back in Missouri
was a slave until the ripe old age of ten
Left his master's home headed to Montana
and swore they would never hear from him again
Started out in th...
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Categories:
butted, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A New Language
...The new language
It was late August, on a glaringly hot day, when I felt dizzy
went to sit on a gigantic carob tree full of beans on thick leaves
to sit in its cooling shade; it was pitch dark ...
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Categories:
butted, abuse, anger, best friend,
Form: Blank verse
Last Chance Cafe
...I entered Last Chance Café feeling quite a bit leery.
How would I get my life answers in a place this dreary?
Welcome to Last Chance! The waitress said with mirth.
She wore at least eleven hundred...
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Categories:
butted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Alfred In the Wilderness
...Alfred and the wilderness
Alfred, who with the greatest of ease tells, me he is not my father
and Olga, he had a brief affair with In Belgrade, is not my mother
we went for a walk across a gre...
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Categories:
butted, blessing, humor,
Form: Sonnet
I Once Had a Goat
...I once had a goat who loved to swim
I enrolled him at our local gym
I know, I know, it was just a whim!
Do tell!
He did rather well in beginners’ match
Girl swimmers thought him qu...
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Categories:
butted, humor, silly,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Going To Celebrate the Jubilee
...We are all going to celebrate the jubilee!
Buzzed the over dubiously excited bumblebee.
Do we have to pay in pollen? Is there a fee?
Asked his cousin Jeremy who almost dropped his tea.
Will of ...
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Categories:
butted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
This Is Your Moment
...This is your moment
This is the time when you need to rise. There is no back door to the house
That is butted up against the hardness of your memory. Always, the only
Way out is through wh...
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Categories:
butted, change,
Form: Free verse
Waves of Loneliness
...Waves of the sea of darkness
Break …. Break … Break
against cotton cloud rocks,
and heighten my loneliness.
Calves that hopped around,
and bulls that smelled the scent
of love, and butted t...
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Categories:
butted, loneliness, night,
Form: Free verse
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