The Motel Goodrest
...With plates and words in anger flying
My wife and I now deem it best
To cease all our screaming and crying
As I check into the Motel Goodrest
I arrive and plop down for a blissful night
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Categories:
clomp, funny, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Under the Shed
...Under the shed is a groundhog,
Living without my consent.
Once in a while he emerges;
His presence I’ve come to resent.
Likely he’s dug a deep burrow
And most of the time he’s away.
I don’t t...
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Categories:
clomp, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Hooves and Wheels
...Can I say this is a Friesian,
that one a Hereford?
I lived so long in a town
and can say I have forgotten
my recollection as I wander in streets
among cars and bikes.
And yet am I so much mis...
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Categories:
clomp, animal, beauty, farm,
Form: Free verse
After the Cyber Dating
...Erotic prayers are typed like tattoos
on her virtual skin. She clutches at this man;
prints his likeness under her tongue. His words
are as close as a bedtime story told to her flesh.
An fles...
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Categories:
clomp, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sounds of the Subway
...Whip, click, clip, umbrellas flatten near the stairs
Stomp, slap, clap, echo footsteps here and there
Rumble, rattle, honk! goes the subway along the tracks
“Hey”, “Wait”, “No!”, voices shouting ...
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Categories:
clomp, city, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Preparations
...Clomp, clomp, clomp upon the rooftop
Vroom, whirr, whirr as leaves bounce
Tumbling down rustle and gently land
Fall officially announced
Snip, snip, snip...
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Categories:
clomp, autumn, garden, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Thinning Light
...A pair of new shoes in the thrift store,
the old shoes would shuffle away
from them if they could.
A ragged man struggles
carrying a large plasma screen
in outstretched arms.
He is walking i...
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Categories:
clomp, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cancer Unnamed In 1862
...The horses are a galloping today
Their hooves clacking against the cobblestones.
They clomp right by in a most lovely way.
Woman in carriage giving tiny moans.
Cancer prevails in her smallish bon...
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Categories:
clomp, cancer,
Form: Dizain
Sounds
...Bang Bang
Clang Clang
Plop Plop
Drip Drop
Boom Boom
Zoom Zoom
Clomp Clomp
And Stomp
Honk Honk
Plink Plonk
Knock Knock
And Rock
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Categories:
clomp, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Gugu and Momo
...shared a strange reality made from footsteps
the land of spirit being open to improvisation
with existence a fountain of plenty for all
too much meaning too much of the time
is it not true to the...
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Categories:
clomp, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Quebec City
...Through the cobblestone roads they walk
with feet so light and hearts so bright
along the path where passion sizzles love
it is a prelude to dismember by the hour ;
Fine china dishes and silent...
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Categories:
clomp, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Bunny Jump Honey Lump Funny Chump
...Clippity clomp stomp romp chomp
its wabbit making racket with a hatchet
He's got a hump and a stump rump
he goes fuzzy wuzzy chinzy flimsy
when the lame rain yanks his brain chain
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Categories:
clomp, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Night
...Come we're gonna have a party wear a costume bring your cat
The cauldrons ready so don't tardy bring your Hocus Pocus hat
Grab some munchies at the door moaning sounds all that gore
It is A...
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Categories:
clomp, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
The Insignificance of Man
...Blunt deadly weapons of mass destruction
electrify, fracture, and
jeopardize *****Sapiens
species (and entire biosphere)
continuity rent asunder
doomsday declared (nuclear winter
gallows humo...
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Categories:
clomp, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Tempest
...THE TEMPEST
Before the tempest nothing moves,
Goose bumps shiver my flesh.
Before the clomp of horses hooves,
The storm’s about to thresh.
Trees shake their heads like ceiling fan...
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Categories:
clomp, christian, sin, storm,
Form: Rhyme
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