Catch Some Zzzzs
Call my name, I want to hear
Cry it out, loud and clear
I'll hold you tight, no room to move
We'll dance as one, right in the groove
Then afterwards we'll take a rest
I'll try at least, I'll try my best
Calm winds will quickly turn typhoon
And I'll want more very soon
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Categories:
catch on, desire, passion, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
The Pet I Never Had
by Russ Dodson (c) 1968. 2025
I've never had a unicorn
because I couldn't catch one
and I know no virgin maid
whom I could send to fetch one
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Categories:
catch on, allegory, fairy, funny, magic,
Form: Verse
The Coyote Can't Catch Me
If you watch any animated episode,
you will see me beep-beep down the road.
I can run at a great velocity.
Nobody will be able to catch me.
While I move, I feel quite happy.
However, I have an adversary.
The joker in question is that coyote.
He tries so many ways to apprehend me.
The way I run, that will never be.
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Categories:
catch on, character,
Form: Rhyme
Go Fish The Big One
Remember as a child playing cards,
Go Fish?
A child's life and fishing go together,
dreaming about catching the big one.
How big is the big one?
At what age will they catch it?
Will it be from land or from a boat?
Yes a child will dream about the big one,
the big one being on the end of their fishing line.
One
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Categories:
catch on, child, dad, fish, fun,
Form: Free verse
Catch 22 - What Should He Do?
He can't wait to move out
since he's grown up- but the problem is
that he has no car and has no job
(Is it a catch twenty-two?),
he's wise enough to understand
that he cannot live as a freeloader
be forever dependent on his parents
he's a grown man not a little boy
problem is he has no car and has no
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Categories:
catch on, leaving, son,
Form: Free verse
When You Catch Cold
Sickness can turn your house into a personal jail
When friends come to visit you use anything as a veil
The moments you lose track of the day and time
If you need medicine you would spend every dime
To pass the time you watch old episodes on Netflix
Eating soup for dinner and inhaling vapors of vicks
It feels like
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Categories:
catch on, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Catch 22
The beginning
of the end
The end
of the beginning
To look
and not see
A desperate
path
To start
what can’t finish
Destroying
tomorrow
When eyes
remain closed
The future
— uncast
(Dreamsleep: June, 2025)
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Categories:
catch on, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
What a Catch
I wore enough makeup
you'd have thought
I was in witness protection.
first dates are like that—
turned out he was the one
that got arrested.
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Categories:
catch on, character, irony, memory,
Form: Free verse
A golly whopper's catch
There was a young woman who yearned for a mate.
Sadly cat food was all that she ate...
The cans with seafood she clearly favored and from
this diet she never wavered.
Many thought her an attractive gal, in spite of slight
whiskers and her woeful meow.
None dared go close as her breath was so foul..
Come night on a twinkling
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Categories:
catch on, cat, fish, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Categories:
catch on, bird, food,
Form: Haiku
Be Ready to Catch
Life speeds by with work, errands, crisis
and then something huge pops up
It's so easy to settle into a busy numbness
and just pass the days at the speed of light
However if you tuck your head down and
just let life pass quickly, you may miss
the sweet moments that enrich life with
laughter, connection, and blessings
I
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Categories:
catch on, life,
Form: Free verse
Catch As Catch Can
I've little or no chance. Should I go for the kill?
With my skill and will, I must till every hard hill.
I'm my government. I must make my decision.
Amidst moral schisms, I have endless vision.
Like lions, tigers, and rhinos, I show aggression.
Doesn't this involve an ethical transgression?
There's a battle. There's a physio-psychic war.
Against the opponent, there's
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Categories:
catch on, games, life,
Form: Rhyme
And I gave her an easy catch
Let me try, spoon-feed me nor ever teach,
My big mouth said, help me reach to my bridge
Like olden-day gurus who would not preach,
Help me smooth out if you find a rough ridge
That allowed little light of truth to reach,
Stop utter darkness from declaring siege.
Just guide, help me old blockages to
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Categories:
catch on, humor, wife,
Form: Sonnet
Catch Up
My mission is to make you see out loud
And understand, my means are to open your mind's eye
I must reach you to teach you the nature at hand
Every cup that's filled, it's a must that you sip
And if the rules ain't bent don't bend them
I just want you to
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Categories:
catch on, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Catch Joy When You Can
Catch joy when you can
Like a butterfly twirling away
And keep near the heart.
If not, joy will escape your grip too
And fly by somebody else's head.
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Categories:
catch on, appreciation, joy, metaphor,
Form: Tanka
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