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Cooties Poems - Poems about Cooties

No Butts About It

...I’m surely not the only one
Who finds this hard to use
And whether it is needed
Will produce conflicting views.

Yet when in a public restroom
I will often face defeat
When I try to use the pa...
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Categories: cooties, humor,
Form: Rhyme

boys

...so icky
so stinky
so gross
that’s what we were told growing up
i didn’t talk to them because
boys had cooties

he hits me because he likes me
he flirts by making fun of me
he talks about me ...
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Categories: cooties, 11th grade, boy, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse



Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust

...Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust 

Warning: The following material no worse than getting cooties. I remember them way back in grade school, whereat everyone ran away f...
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Categories: cooties, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse

Unitarian Church returnee

...Unitarian Church returnee

After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional 
almost three months 
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted ...
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Categories: cooties, 3rd grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Since I Was Eight

...A lot has changed since I was eight.
My brain gained a bit of weight,
Dance went from a hobby to a skill.
Grandma went from writing notes to her will.
Losing stuff went from teeth to pounds.
My ...
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Categories: cooties, age, childhood,
Form: Rhyme



stones

...stones
by michael r. burch


i.
far below me lies a village
with its houses hewn from stone
and though Everyman who lives there
bravely claims he’s not alone,
i can tell him, yes u are!
for...
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Categories: cooties, fire, heart, house, mountains,
Form: Rhyme

Cooties

...If only, if only I could catch the cooties from you, please, give me the cooties, I heard, they can cure the blues, sometimes
Give them to me, so they'll be mines
The cooties aren't so scary, when ...
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Categories: cooties, for him,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberWhen Doves Cry

...Cooling off in falling months, approaching dusk.
Coordinated chill and quilting of snow, brusque.
Cooking lots of soup, beating down dough,
as the wind whoops on a weeping willow.

The sky blue ...
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Categories: cooties, death, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

The Cooties Game

...Come here kids and listen
We're gonna play a game
It's just like tag, a little
And Covid is it's name

The whole wide world is playing
It's a simple game to play
Everyone has cooties
The idea...
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Categories: cooties, 1st grade, child, children,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNasty Panda

...China charges 1 million annually
For each panda in our zoos
If we won't pay in full
Then the pandas we will lose
Nasty Panda's the exception
No one wants him here or there
He was paid 1 million...
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Categories: cooties, animal, corruption, dark, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberWe All Got Out the Chalk

...I was shaking and swaying to music of the 60’s,
My favorite stuff, 
When my grandchildren joined in,
And this is no guff.
I whirled them and twirled them,

We stomped on the floor,
We got out ...
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Categories: cooties, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

'she'Et

...When I was a boy I repudiated you
Your cooties chased you out the crew
The innocence across the playground blew

I ran and ran and ran

Later I was taught how to communicate to you
Your dress ...
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Categories: cooties, emotions, feelings, growth, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThwarting the Bullies

...Shelly said that Darlene said that
Tina said that you are an ignorant fool.
So?
Jinny said that Zinna was rolling her eyes at you.
Farina said you have cooties.
So?
Do you want to hear what All...
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Categories: cooties, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Poet's Five O'Clock Shadow

...A poet once went without shaving
About his beard no one was raving
They all screamed, “Fecal stuff,
from Cooties in the buff!”
Went after him with razors waving!...
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Categories: cooties, hair, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Birthday Number 15, April 9th

...5- My first year of kindergarten,
 Daddy sends me off to the world 
(Or so he says, but I know I'll be coming home at three)

10- I'm growing older and I got a little bit taller too. 
 I think b...
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Categories: cooties, birthday, childhood,
Form: Free verse

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