CASEY’S SECOND CHANCE!
...The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two, with but an inning left to play.
And when Cooney fell at first, and Barrows met the same,
A hush of sorrow...
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Categories:
buttoned up, baseball, destiny, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Anatomy Of The Leg
...In 2013 Amélie Ségarra danced on a Grand Piano with knives
taped to the tips of her feet.
The room is empty apart from a single man in a music box
He wears a black an white suit buttoned up to th...
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Categories:
buttoned up, allusion, analogy, appreciation, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
BUSY BUSY BUMBLE BEE
...Busy…Buzzing…Bumble Bee
Busy Buzzing Bottling Honey
Jumbo Bundled Bumble Bee
With Bold-Brown Buttoned Bottoms
And Billowy Belted Blemished Top
All well-suited for yet another
Busy-Busy Beautif...
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Categories:
buttoned up, animal,
Form: Alliteration
The Strasbourg Dancing Sickness
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Is dance a metaphor for sex?
You’d think so if you knew my ex
(at least the barflies all believe
she’s hoarding something up her sleeve).
But what makes people want to dance?
An aural frenzy? ...
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Categories:
buttoned up, dance,
Form: Couplet
For talking too much in class, we've buttoned your lip
...For talking too much in class, we've buttoned your lip.
If the teacher does ask you to talk, here is a little tip.
You unbutton your lip just like a button on your shirt.
The first few times, you ...
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Categories:
buttoned up, humor, hyperbole, nonsense, parody,
Form: Light Verse
Snow Angels, Snowpeople, and Evergreen Trees
...Snow Angels, Snowpeople, and Evergreen Trees
When winter comes, children know how to have fun.
Laughing and catching snowflakes with their tongues
Or lying flat on their backs with arms f...
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Categories:
buttoned up, children, fun, winter,
Form: Verse
Cinderella Memories Dedication to My Father
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~Cinderella Memories~
Young, self-confident, all debutantes
At the top of the golden,spiral,staircase.
And, oh my, she, was in a Cinderella mood!
The white f...
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Categories:
buttoned up, chicago, father daughter, happiness,
Form: Bio
If A Musicbox Was Cold Language
...
... I live then by the cold while in Summer
Would that I could back these places in time —
Even its iron still buried in ice
There on my skin, the buttoned September.
— Tongue chases the buds f...
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Categories:
buttoned up, angst, child, conflict, innocence,
Form: Hybronnet
Fashioned Fortitude
...A mirror never reveals
fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins;
time unmutes raven melodies within,
tawny tunes of truth~
I once spoke in colorful dialects.
Now, I trust just the...
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Categories:
buttoned up, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Armor
...Purposefully put together
Piled up piece by piece
Donning my suit of armor
Thought it provided peace
Polished exterior portrayed
That I had it all figured out
Buttoned up from head to toe
Y...
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Categories:
buttoned up, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
swirling seven-stars
...Life is never a planned ride
on a magical carpet,
that awakens jasmine
dreams lost in the brisk air.
We weave our own
zest of zephyr,
to tailor-stitch a tapestry;
buttoned w...
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Categories:
buttoned up, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The holidays
...Ate too much dessert
pants won't stay zipped or buttoned
muffin top emerges...
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Categories:
buttoned up, life,
Form: Senryu
Christmas Alone
...Buttered pancakes, hot cocoa, cinnamon sticks,
Knitted neck shawls, all buttoned up jackets, "Phew,"
Some are ice skating, or skiing, and sledding,
~~"Ohh Little......
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Categories:
buttoned up, allusion, analogy, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Sapphic stanza
George Washington Set Potus Precedent No Lie
...George Washington Set Potus Precedent...no lie
trumped hill re: by a bill yon votes
and bridged tradition (Abe Lee) linkedin
to present president; biden his time
trying to build back better
s...
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Categories:
buttoned up, 12th grade, absence, africa,
Form: Free verse
Pemigewasset Wilderness
...We stitched our ribbons through your heart
From end to end we threaded
We sewed right to your fingertips
– And every stitch you dreaded
We tramped along your shoulders broad
To weave our littl...
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Categories:
buttoned up, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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