jump already
...The cattails and frogs were less than amused today
By mallard duck, dressed so weird down by the bay
Duck named Tuck was getting ready to dive
Bees laughed at him, and raced back to their hive
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Categories:
chickened, water,
Form: Rhyme
Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
...Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty.
Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twen...
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Categories:
chickened, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Epilepsy
...The first time I had a seizure,
I was in class, at the front to be precise
I'd been called up to do a sum
When in a fit I was down on the floor
I can't remember much after,
But I know I went ...
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Categories:
chickened, care, childhood, depression, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Pink and My Buster Browns
...Pink and My Buster Browns
My egg hatched north of the border, P...
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Categories:
chickened, bird, bullying, cute,
Form: Rhyme
After Trump
...After Trump
Now that Trump has gone but not for good
What shall we hate next?
When our love affair with Joe Biden is over shall
We look a bit closer to his politics we know he is
A politician fo...
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Categories:
chickened, absence, abuse, allegory, assonance,
Form: Blank verse
Iowa Monster of Van Meter
...My friends were discussing the cyptids of their home states.
I kept insanely quiet, for my own experience left me shaken.
You are mighty quiet agreed my friends, both of them Kates.
I hesitated to...
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Categories:
chickened, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Bring a Bodybag When I Am Ninety Two
...My friend and I were talking about retiring.
I chickened out. I like big money.
She put in her papers.
She is older than me by a year and a half.
I will miss her terribly but I cannot do it yet.
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Categories:
chickened, retirement,
Form: Light Verse
Consummate Exemplary Graduate Invites Kudos
...Nonetheless suicidal ideations severely
whipsaw punctuate, lacerate, assassinate
frescoed fiasco failure grimly livingsocial
ah...that dull cutlery eyed with temptation
one painful thrust hemorrh...
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Categories:
chickened, 12th grade, adventure, celebration,
Form: Epic
A Man Who Loved To Eat
...A man who loved to eat, Fish, eggs, fruit and meat,
But from his mouth,
The chicken chickened out,
In vain he tried t...
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Categories:
chickened, humor, word play,
Form: Limerick
I Wish
...When the bigger kids bullied me in elementary school
When they teased me, told me I wasn't cool
I wish I hadn't just kept quiet, enduring their ridicule
When I was a bit older
And didn'...
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Categories:
chickened, how i feel, pain,
Form: Rhyme
The Vamp Who Chickened Out
...Soft fingered winds caressed my neck
Kissed my breast supine
Brushed the tip of my nose
Rolled my hair like twine.
Tickled up and down my thigh
Lightly touched my feet
As I lay on my neighbo...
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Categories:
chickened, allusion, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
National Mental Health Awareness Week
...It’s National Mental Health Awareness Week
and I’m finding new resources to help
me
help me
help
me again and pretend there is hope until there is
hope all who suffer find some peace
and mind ...
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Categories:
chickened, addiction, drink, family, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Not So Friendly Mirror
...Form. Florette 2. Wrote for contest but didnt submit. (I chickened out)
Mirrors reveal what you can't hide
The rolls of fat your large backside
The legs once slim now plump and veined
T...
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Categories:
chickened, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
Too Afraid
...I said I would tell you.
I lied.
In truth,
I'm too afraid.
Every time, I come so close,
But chickened out
Was too scared.
To tell you.
That I like you.
Hoping you were stupid anough not t...
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Categories:
chickened, friendship, hope, life, love
Form: Free verse
Notes
...My friend and I decided
to both give our crushes notes,
saying we like them...
She gave him hers,
And I chickened out,
Had to make sure that
It was exactly right...
And now I get cold fe...
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Categories:
chickened, life, love
Form: Free verse
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