The Two Cobs
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The two Cobs at the beach made a stop
Each then laid out their blanket to plop!
But they somehow forgot
That day's sun was too hot-
Quickly, Madam Cob's kernels did pop!
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Categories:
cobs, beach, funny,
Form: Limerick
Cornfields
...Cornfields full; midst green blades glaze
As summer lends a hand with its golden blaze.
They sway to the wind, direction it blows
Golden cobs of grass in pride simply shows.
At sunset they cower ...
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Categories:
cobs, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Bitter Wind - Page 1
...Bitter Wind
With the winds beginning in the autumn season, the Soul seems to be a leaf falling towards new pain.
In the heat of the fire flying with the wind, it inhales us with the new breath ...
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Categories:
cobs, literature, war,
Form: Free verse
Stopping By Corn Field On A Sunny Day
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Stopping By Corn Field On A Sunny Day
with apologies to Robert Frost
Whose field is this I'm sure I know.
he's busy in the barn now though
and will not see me stopping here
to find ...
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Categories:
cobs, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Jobs
...Deep in the earth’s bowels
We crawl through tight tunnels
Where it’s darker than night
But for glimmer of light
From small stub of tallow,
A feeble yellow glow.
Above our heads the rock
It oft...
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Categories:
cobs, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Black Spot
...Har, ya say it aren't so.
Yer holds a black spot.
Ye won't live to be old.
Grow short on the clock.
We want that, Gold.
Those cobs in a box.
Nice to know ya Munroe.
Pistol shot, flintlock....
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Categories:
cobs, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Rehashing History: Squanto and the Pilgrims, the First Thanksgiving
...The winter of 1621 in Plymouth was harsh as could be,
The Pilgrims were sick and sorry they'd come,
They missed their warm English beds and their tea.
The still ambulatory shivered and shuffled ab...
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Categories:
cobs, history, humor, thanksgiving,
Form: Light Verse
Autumn's Bounty
...Autumn's bounty now waits in the fields.
Sowers and keepers of the crops are
Now replaced by energetic reapers.
Dry and ready for the combine;
Brown and ripe for the harvesting;
The corn to ...
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Categories:
cobs, autumn, food,
Form: Couplet
Bigger Better Bigger
...More is so much more
More than creation could have to offer
The better we can do
If we meddle and then we tamper
Make it better it will be BIGGER
THERE beneath the muscle mass
The egg yolk re...
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Categories:
cobs, crazy, nature, technology,
Form: Free verse
My Gramma S Couch
...Won’t you please take me back
To the brown couch at my Gramma’s house
With the big gold-framed antique mirror over it
And hand me Grampa’s old transistor radio
Covered in leather with glorious k...
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Categories:
cobs, family, grandmother, sad,
Form: Free verse
Monkey Business
...Monkey business
“I say how about
breakfast at The New Farmer’s”
Our day of picking and consuming done
no hunger induced nightmares, we rest dusk to dawn
check on the young ones. Are we a...
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Categories:
cobs, africa, animal, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Thanksgiving
...THANKSGIVING
Butterbees glazing
Wing’d gobblings
Horn of plenty
Our honeyland
Mannah-maestro conducting
Xylophones with silver spoons
Misting maids of ‘mooners
Golden streams of Gilea...
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Categories:
cobs, food, imagery, thanksgiving,
Form: Imagism
Vegan Crayons
...Have you heard
a carrot scream,
when dragged outta earth?
Or the yell of green beans
peeled alive
severed cross-wise, sectioned?
Or the curdling
yell of purple potatoes
plonked alive in
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Categories:
cobs, art, green, purple, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Scarecrow
...‘so glad ya made it out alright,’ she says.
‘i’m feelin’ a whole lot better knowin’ that the crops’re bein’ taken care-uh.”
you nod, smile politely
and step out of your car straight into drying mu...
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Categories:
cobs, autumn, horror, imagery, sun,
Form: Free verse
Here Kitty Kitty Kitty Squirrel
...I have a question a wondering thought imagine this and that...
If a squirrel is a rodent?
Why? Then why is it such a cute little critter;
And when they procreate do they also have a lit...
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Categories:
cobs, analogy, celebration, character, funny,
Form: Free verse
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