A Warning for the Recently Widowed
...When my ashes are brought home
don’t place them on a mantel
between the tacky Hummel figurines.
Tip them out onto the backyard
to nourish the cabbages.
I am not coming back,
but check the w...
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Categories:
cabbages, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I dreamt myself dreaming myself dreaming myself dreaming--
...I woke up
on the mattress placed in our living room. I found a cat in my house—it’s the size of a Shiba, and its fur a vibrant orange, with stripes raven dark. I said to my mother, “Wh...
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Categories:
cabbages, anxiety, confusion, dream, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Lament of Zeus
...Thou, Minos, know I’m weary of all things,
Of wars and deaths and cabbages and kings.
I wield that battered shield that is the sky,
And with my strength protect what ‘neath doth lie:
But what whe...
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Categories:
cabbages, angst, death, myth, power,
Form: Rhyme
Gratification of Senses Adagietto
...His tears faded away
with the most concerning
image of tommorrow ever
seen
modern usage of a Jollux
man. Spearing to victory
or so he seemed
as he speared up
meat and cabbages
for the suppe...
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Categories:
cabbages, adventure, analogy, beautiful, character,
Form: Bio
she gardened herself happy
...Marta decided to garden herself happy
It was the thing she used to love to do
with her grandparents, Big Pappy
and her grandmother, Nora Sue.
They had spent many hours planting their seeds
Hoe...
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Categories:
cabbages, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Yesterday's Wishes
...
Yesterday's wishes
have flown like pigs
leaving their wings
to the cabbages
and to the kings,
(whatever
that may mean).
Yesterday's wishes
are broken
like dishes,
an earthquake's
fa...
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Categories:
cabbages, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
carrot and cabbage pies
...Detroit rabbit couple ride their fish balloon in the Michigan skies
They like what they are throwing; there is happiness in their eyes
We wonder if they know what they are doing; as they throw out ...
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Categories:
cabbages, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
If I led Russia?
...Some different tactics in negating a war, a Russian
Schematic, quite probable i'm sure.! To any armies
Poised to strike.? Consider this soldiers' as you might?
Like 2 acres of land? to till and ha...
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Categories:
cabbages, adventure, appreciation, assonance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
my son told me he likes Beyonce's new song, 16 cabbages
...it is good
and he's got imaginary games of cricket
being played in his head
he tells me the score
and what the pitch is like
in his head
in an attempt to find that innocence again
i started ...
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Categories:
cabbages, anxiety, children, good morning,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful City of Goma , Drcongo
...As I was in national park virunga
and I saw a zebra
which was giving birth and
one black and white cobra
passed by there.
I admired their colours
and took some pictures
to show my kids a...
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Categories:
cabbages, africa, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Giant Things
...We are the withdrawal
on a dappled day
White Vultures Swarm
bone dry is the day,
Now our lives are hasten
We are cheek by Jowl
Giant lies interlude
Secret tunes of cabbages and Kings
burgle...
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Categories:
cabbages, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Yes, Growing a Fine Ole Southern Garden
...Yes, Growing A Fine Ole Southern Garden
In the garden strawberries are dancing about so red
Momma's cantaloupes laying there just waiting to be ate
Over there luscious red roses resting in ferti...
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Categories:
cabbages, creation, environment, growth, memory,
Form: Sonnet
Green Worm - Nursery Rhyme
...Once a green worm gets an Agro journal
Finds a write-up about the fresh vernal
Stops eating cabbages, collard and kale
Gets thrilled and goes on reading its own tale
Rea...
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Categories:
cabbages, butterfly, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Beans Town Bassoonist
...Get i right or
don't do it at all
stand straight up
bounce back when you fall
keep your eyes on the
prize
go for what you know
regcogize your
obstacles
let everyone know
Twelve hocks
thre...
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Categories:
cabbages, culture,
Form: Ballad
harvest
...
a local farmers cabbages
exceeded county tonnages
the judge said hey joe
you got any mo
my trucks theyre all wreckages.
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Categories:
cabbages, autumn, farm, fun, funny,
Form: Limerick
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