Somewhere On Foot Part Two
...“Oh please don’t worry.
I haven’t a heightened sixth sense… about the mint infused lilt here.”
There must be a compass without a point surrounding me
“Looking for directions.
The town you’re seek...
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Categories:
clem, beautiful, character, deep, environment,
Form: Prose
I Saw God But Now What
...That hot afternoon when the winds were shy,
The Earth froze and the birds refused to fly,
I sat on the soft cold cushion of the green,
Looking on and on...The scene, so serene,
The trees droop...
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Categories:
clem, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Oddest Cats In Church
...They are the oddest cats in church the toms agree
We secretly nicknamed them the fluffy high-haired three
Their hair is odd, cotton-candy fluffy, colored like spun sugar too
They stand around giv...
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Categories:
clem, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Maybe a Christmas Story
...Spook settled in for an October night
It was brisk and breezy; it felt just right
The pumpkins were sitting within sight
A scary story! Said the littlest, Light.
About carving pumpkins? Spook a...
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Categories:
clem, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing Good Ever Happenss
...Mistress Clem collected a variety of rose quartz.
She knew the value of the gem’s properties.
Rose quartz will bring you love and family.
Did It work?
Of course not! She snapped at me.
I never...
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Categories:
clem, life,
Form: Free verse
Lucinda Is Ready To Party
...Lucinda dressed up in her fanciest bluest most satiny dress.
It had flounces and ruffles, creases that gave her a caress.
She was in her party finery, sitting still, waiting for her guest.
Her col...
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Categories:
clem, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Interviewee In Trouble
...A question like a ramrod
Could an interviewee hit like rod:
For The Recklessly Unprepared
And the sure disaster prepaid…
As question waits for the rare gem,
Heard slight noises a big problem,...
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Categories:
clem, age, career, cry, education,
Form: Rhyme
Five Haunted Men
...Like The Cows in Joseph’s Dream
That garroted ones of gleam,
Five were disturbingly gaunt,
As I recalled in a jaunt:
Blissful walk to a park
For a promised beer by Mark:
Men marine spirits did...
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Categories:
clem, destiny, evil, gothic, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Animals Clean Dishes With Their Tails
...Left with the dishes the animals used their tails.
They used their scratchy tongues and they used their nails.
Which would be okay if some had not had rabies.
The hen had chicken pox and the fox h...
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Categories:
clem, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Kerosene Queue Worries
...Where’s the paid watcher of my Jerry can
And who the hell just bounded it off,
My face now a hotter frying pan,
Never to learn how to absorb a bluff?
Lame excuses I don’t fail a wheel chair
A...
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Categories:
clem, age, cry, desire, engagement,
Form: Rhyme
The Howling Ghost
...He stubbed his toe, the elders said.
He is howling and wailing to wake the dead.
He is not a werewolf, I argued with them.
He is a ghost, my little cousin, Clem.
He is being ridiculous the uncl...
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Categories:
clem, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Monoku Monday - Final Edition
..."Final Edition" Posted 12 Sep 2021
With deep gratitude to all of who visited and commented over these 12 months of Monoku Mondays, I am hereby retiring this series. Keep lau...
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Categories:
clem, humor,
Form: Monoku
Monoku Monday - Aug 2021
..."Bits and Pieces III" Posted 1 Aug 2021
Pun Ishment
bread is like the sun it rises in the yeast and it sets in the waist
English Class
epitome of irony...
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Categories:
clem, humor,
Form: Monoku
Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be Bawdy
...COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES - PLEASE SOUP MAIL POEMS AND I WILL ADD THEM
My dentist ...
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Categories:
clem, giggle, jobs,
Form: Limerick
Radio Days
...I reckon I'm revealing my age when about radio days I pen,
But I fondly recall listening to our Philco radio 'way back then.
What wondrous tales, mysteries and pure comedy from it flowed,
By simpl...
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Categories:
clem, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
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