What Is Wrong Lucille
The McCormick’s chicken gatherer and feeder was only six-years-young
She was awakened daily at four-twenty, which was absolutely no fun.
But it was her duty to gather the eggs from the chicken house.
Sometimes when she entered there would dart out a mouse.
Once there was evidence of a fox in the midst of the flock.
One hen did not
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Categories:
chicken coop, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Hula Hoop and Chicken Coop
Hula Hoop and Chicken Coop
had a hula hoop
we were thrown for a big loop
cruddy chicken coup
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Categories:
chicken coop, allegory, analogy,
Form: Senryu
Meanwhile, Back At the Chicken Coop
I read the news today, oh boy
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
The fox in is charge of the hen house
Gates are secure but the creature is inside
Feathers fly in helter skelter patterns
“You’ve got to crack a few eggs” is heard
as those who see the commotion, scramble
A dozen or so duck the falling shells,
raining down from straw
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Categories:
chicken coop, imagination, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
In the Chicken Coop
In the Chicken Coop
4/23/2015
In the chicken coop in our side yard
When I was just a child
My siblings taught me how to cuss
It drove my mother wild
We went into the Chicken house
And climbed upon the perch
Then said some words you never heard
On Sunday while in church
We said them way too loudly
Just laughing all the while
What happened
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Categories:
chicken coop, family,
Form: Rhyme
Chicken Coop Breeze
country road
honeysuckle smell floating
on chicken coop breeze
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Categories:
chicken coop, nature,
Form: Haiku