we build a contraption to help Donner Fly
Our favorite reindeer, Donner was way too old to fly
He had arthritis in his ankles, his knees and his thigh
The rest of us reindeer built him a contraption to fly.
Now we take him along, and some ask us why.
He cheers us up and inspires us with barely a try.
He spurs us to do our best,
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Categories:
contraption, christmas,
Form: Monorhyme
Craziest Contraption
The craziest gadget, widget, gizmo contraption.
Gave me immediate happiness and satisfaction.
I love this machine I told anyone who would listen.
It is sparkly with bells and whistles and it does glisten.
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Categories:
contraption, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Living On the Side
I have lived on the side for so long
A life full of drudgery and misery
A victim of unfortunate birth
To a lowly stock of humanity
And to that soulless contraption of a fatherland
Destined to scrape along
On my daily shamed trajectory
Of the wretched of the earth
Living a good life has always been
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Categories:
contraption, allusion, anger, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Curious Contraption
the demo expert desperado left the device behind
What a marvelously designed contraption; wasn’t that kind?
He’s a desperado, an outlaw, he has a despicable mind.
Disassemble that apparatus, the truth we must methodically find.
The suspicious gadget was calamitous, it burst, cracked and shined.
I am going to dismantle it, it scares me said my cousin McWhined.
His scared-y-cat attitude
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Categories:
contraption, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Contraption
Drinking contraption
He staggers to bed poorly
Puzzling headache
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Categories:
contraption, drink,
Form: Senryu
A Fascinating Contraption
An umbrella is a fascinating contraption
An apparatus with unparalleled import,
It has evolved through many an adaption
So let us never, inadvertently, sell it short.
The English, yes, they call it a bumbershoot
And for years I didn’t know why, but it is,
A combination of umbrella and parachute
Quite extraordinarily sensible, gee whiz.
I have lost twenty or thirty in my
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Categories:
contraption, rain, weather, words,
Form: Light Verse
Bugging Contraption Wbm
This man was a sleuth by profession,
for belated honeymoon session
reached on moonless night eerie
lodge in mist of mystery,
searched the room for bugging contraption.
July 31, 2019
Syllable count 9/9/7/7/9
Checked on howmanysyllables.com
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Categories:
contraption, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Cosmic Contraption
Once upon a timelessness,
a ripple wrinkle,
night and day begot.
The rest is history.
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Categories:
contraption, adventure, creation, history, imagination,
Form: Haiku
Contraption
I heard the clicking
The ticking
The winding
The whirling
As I watch the gears turning
Clicking into place
With each turn of a gear
Moving together
In a chain reaction
Causing something to happen
Within the little contraption
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Categories:
contraption, fun,
Form: Rhyme