Ode On An Ode
...A former lyric to celebrate some bode
A lyric to praise someone who is a goad
A lyric in praise of the West Wind - an abode
Of Autumn and frost; a lovely lyric that rowed
Many poets to the highes...
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Categories:
carload, angst, french, july,
Form: Monorhyme
Our Daily Bread Community Food Pantry
...The spouse betook monthly outing
today May 4th, 2022
to 3938B Ridge Pike,
Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426.
No more bare cupboards,
fridge, and deep freezer
since returning with more than
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Categories:
carload, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Mom Sleeps Through It All
...The most relaxed woman I have ever met, and yet seems quite sane.
Watched her nap in the dining car while bandits were robbing the train.
She slept through gunfire, and barely stirred during her li...
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Categories:
carload, mother, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Hoping For the Smell of Smores
...Whirling leaves of gold and rust travel past me in an ethereal way
Enjoying the float of a gentle glide of morning autumn air.
Squirrel tails chase each other around an oak tree
Ends of toothy fat...
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Categories:
carload, autumn,
Form: Verse
Daily Bread Community Food Pantry
...No more bare cupboards,
fridge, and deep freezer
since returning with more than
our share of daily bread
referring to this mister, who
frightfully squawks like an old geezer,
plus the missus
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Categories:
carload, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Cotton Ball
...We were newlyweds married for only a week,
On our way to Houston, with our love at its peak.
On the way we stopped on the side of the road,
He had spied a cotton field and stopped with our full ca...
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Categories:
carload, break up, divorce, love,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Birthday
...I say; Happy Birthday, to you today.
To someone special, in a loving way.
I dedicate this song to you.
And give my thanks, for all the time you shared.
I'll send a bouquet of flowers too.
Some...
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Categories:
carload, birthday, song, daffodils,
Form: Ballad
Time Was
...He looked at the old man with tobacco stains on his shirt
Then asked if times were different when he was a kid
The old man smiled and said I’ll tell you a story
About the times we had and the thin...
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Categories:
carload, nostalgiaold, day, old,
Form: Narrative
And That's the Way It Was
...When I was young I had a bad temper.
As mean as a dog you could not make me whimper.
Fighting back then was more like a game.
Even when you fought you were friends just the same.
Something...
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Categories:
carload, life, nostalgia, me,
Form: Narrative
Drive In
...Morning sunrise through the sleepy eyes of a young boy bringing
anticipation of sundown and a starlit night
while the chevy still slept in front of the house soon to be
treated to a sponge bath an...
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Categories:
carload, life,
Form: Free verse