The Red Lion
...Apart from the worn stone-step
where drunks still topple,
or the hand-painted sign,
all has changed,
now a neon glow backlights a plasticized fascia,
all ‘local color’ painted over.
In the ca...
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Categories:
clomping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
MILL TOWN
...In town of Holy Face, now Halez Fax
Are rows of back-to-backs in terraces
Between the mills that spill their thick black smoke.
Industry now dominates hill and dale.
Manufacture is mast...
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Categories:
clomping, change, environment, pollution,
Form: Blank verse
A Little Ants Sword
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Sam is a novice gardener who stamps on all ants
He doesn't like them near or crawling on his plants
Their Queen was angry and wanted revenge
For the ones that had fallen she wanted to avenge.
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Categories:
clomping, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Snazziest Boots Ever
...the snazziest boots ever arrived by Prime delivery today
The lid flew off the box, and the boots yelled out “hey! hey!”
They line danced around the kitchen, clomping up my floor.
My husband came t...
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Categories:
clomping, dance,
Form: Rhyme
My Evolution In a Library
...Ahhh! The smell of books; I recognize it the second we enter.
Maybe I lived a life before this life? We get my first library card.
Shhhhh! I jump a foot. The crone of a librarian winks at me.
I am...
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Categories:
clomping, books,
Form: Prose Poetry
Good Bye Rats
...Rats are stomping three by three
Hooray Hooray!
Rats are clomping next to me.
Good day! Good day!
The rats are marching on their way
To kicking some serious petootie today
The rats are clicki...
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Categories:
clomping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Stomping Romping Clomping Boots
...cowgirl stomping
rodeo romping
pasture clomping
faster chomping
joyful cowgirl boots
embroidered with a flower
wrinkled from a shower
with all kinds of kicking power
cowgirl stomping rompin...
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Categories:
clomping, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
2020 Holidays
...My room is a mess - it's an archaeological record of boredom.
Christmas, Christmas, come on Christmas.
It's 4 days 'til Christmas. Why don't I go to my room and do NOTHING??
The clock ticking so...
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Categories:
clomping, 11th grade, august, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Watering Hole
...Apart from the worn stone-step
where drunks still topple
all has changed.
Now a neon glow backlights a plasticized fascia.
In the in the parking lot two blonds face-off.
one has extra-large ea...
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Categories:
clomping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of Our Neighborhood
...There are many reasons I love my morning walks…many ways I find to be enthralled
but sometimes the best moments…are when I do not walk at all.
Today as I began my walk…in the street I quietly sto...
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Categories:
clomping, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Sultry Night Above
...Raggedy vagrants
alleyways with broken lamps
clomping of footsteps
Imminent danger
seaside shadows vanish
fir trees bend and crack
Imaginary ghosts
swift legs continue their beat
keep l...
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Categories:
clomping, dark, emotions, fear, imagination,
Form: Haibun
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:
clomping, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Happy Mothers Day
...Running up the stairs giggling and clomping
Laughing way too loudly, alerting Mom that we are on our way.
Sh! Sh! Sh! our ten-year-old boss says.
Don’t spill the toast! It is cold by now but slath...
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Categories:
clomping, mothers day,
Form: Narrative
Dragons In My Dreams
...Fire breathing, ash streaming dragons stomping,
Across the landscape are ruthlessly romping;
Clanging, banging, with metal feet shodden,
Bushes and plants slash, flowers downtrodden.
Across th...
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Categories:
clomping, science fiction, urban,
Form: Pantoum
Christmas With Relatives
...My happy Aunt Petootie
comes clomping over.
Your mother says you write poetry now.
Her eyebrows are angry.
Uh-huh. I admit.
She is in full glare mode now.
Why?
Because I like it?
Diaboli...
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Categories:
clomping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
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