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Et Cetera--Use Sparingly, Please

A student wrote an essay for my class,
explaining how he felt about the school.
“The rules are dumb,” was followed by one point:
“Y’all tell us how to dress. That’s SO un-cool!”

The next word made me seethe: “et cetera”!*
The kid moved on to accusation 2:
“For lotsa reasons, I get really bored.
Like, classes are so long I wanna

Categories: cetera, humor, language,
Form: Rhyme

Yucatan, Et Cetera

Yucatan, etc.

Cortez, DeMille are gone.
It's now the locus
of postgraduate honeymoons,
urban fugues, a minor literary genre.

Knowledge and ejection predispose us
to technological parody--
antique busses, burros, plumbing, pyramids--
as if nothing ever caught on.

There is no CHRONOLOGY, the pace and mores
are too counterproductive--
poster Indians pee along the road,
the women never dust.

We like the Sartrean-Spanish askewness--
bugs, sex, dysentery, moonlight--
as if,

Categories: cetera, fate, holiday, irony, leaving,
Form: Free verse

Et Cetera

So many books
With touching hooks


So much fun time
As glimpses chime


So many ways
To live each day


So much feel shows
As quiz now grows


So many moods
That flavour good


So much to see
That yet will be


So many rounds
As cycles ground


So much to sift
That joy may lift


So many streams
Of spacious dreams


So much of how
That merge right now


So many gaps
To link mind

Categories: cetera, change,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

My Et Cetera

Time has a way
To simply say,
To find the way
To yesterday.


Space wears a face
In steady trace,
In touch of grace
Upon my face.


I come to meet
Echoes that greet,
Bitter yet sweet
Upon these streets.


Soul mellows fate
Here at these gates,
I am not late
To sparkle date.


Et cetera
Odd agenda,
Silk organza
Memoranda.


So many thoughts
That flood odd lot,
Here spill the dots
In charm's sweet spot.


Tell my story
In

Categories: cetera, change,
Form: Quatrain

Facebook Et Cetera

Social media
Endless lists of so-called friends
Who have never met

Categories: cetera, best friend, bullying, community,
Form: Haiku

Et Cetera

5 short minutes is not enough
to write a verse and make it sound
pleasing to the ear, I've found!
A little free verse will have to do,..... held together with some glue!

For Russell's contest, I will rush
but with Russell's small allotted time
I can't find the words to rhyme
Oh, look I did it!! ..see those words? 
Time and

Categories: cetera, angst, funny, writing,
Form: Rhyme

No Clue Et Cetera

No Clue Et Cetera

You know I haven’t got a clue
When it comes to pleasing you
You challenge me to write a poem
In hopes of first place to bring home

You know at first I did it wrong
Skipped two words that did belong
But now I think I'm back on track
It's not for trying that I lack
I haven’t got

Categories: cetera, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme

Et Cetera Done In End Rhyme

Should I write in rhyming words
are you babies I should coo
and speak of love and little boats
and of Dr. Seuss’s zoo.

Should I write of baby dolls
in rhyming words oh so sweet
Are you babies or men all
aged and complete.

I should coo and speak of love
of pacifiers and bottles
and little boats and planes above
size with a throttle.

Should

Categories: cetera, introspection,
Form: Verse

Cuma Cetera

Bodily members contorting
Bending, twisting, distorting
Entwined, combined, exhorting 

Body language 
Forming a love sandwich
Embracing, enticing, exciting
Licking, tickling, biting
Fuelling emotions, fire igniting
Inciting, inviting,

Explosions of emotions
Moving in slow motion
Of love and devotion
Reaching the apex
Climax
Lie back relax

Where does it start and end
With a perfect wife my flexible friend

* yes the title is spelt correctly*

Categories: cetera, lovelove,
Form: I do not know?