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Corncob Poems - Poems about Corncob

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather I haint no spring chicken, ("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!") but in Summer re: long in tooth sexagenarian nostalgic for the following imagery ev......

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Categories: corncob, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Corn's Life
...First seen is the blade Next stage is the stalk Then the green corncob.......

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Categories: corncob, creation, faith, growth, life,
Form: Haiku



Remarkable
... That sickly little ginger's eye is open again! Oh she's loving her new sister in crime! Look at them on the pedestal taking on all comers! Shouldn't have been in the zone a......

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Categories: corncob, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nebraska Straw Wanted Fancy
...Nebraska straw was irritated to be woven into a hat I am as plain as a calf, lion, hoot owl, corncob and bat. you are a beginning, her grandma told her; do not give up. especially if you are adopt......

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Categories: corncob, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
On-Off Old Glance Flashing Its Hint
...I gat no ing job All I do is place a daring bet Sometimes I hit the big stone with my toe While if luck gat my back, it catapults me like a jet Madness permits corncob Yet remain hopeful to h......

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Categories: corncob, art, class, creation, devotion,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Story Teller
...We spent the day at Grandpa’s house. At bedtime, as we would often do, By the fireplace we did rendezvous While Grandpa stoked his corncob pipe. When he leaned back his rocking chair And asked......

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Categories: corncob, children, family, grandfather, house,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Wish Away From Strife
...There was a man that wished to be a snowman. Winter came in with the impatient wind, approaching in by its downy grace; the man in the midst of it all, the snow read his mind. Excitedly, seized......

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Categories: corncob, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost In the Cornfield
...Inspired by Sunshine Smile’s “Escape From Reality.” And also Caren Krutsinger who plays with imagination. LOST IN THE CORNFIELD Why do I wanna get lost in the cornfield At first becaus......

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Categories: corncob, children, fun,
Form: Free verse
Ghost Hollow
...The Laskey brothers owned a farm, a lovely little spot. A babbling brook made merry mist when summer nights were hot. And that’s when Jacob filled his pipe and sat upon a boulder. The smoke arose,......

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Categories: corncob, farm,
Form: Rhyme
A Frosty Resurrection
...One day when the children woke up It was snowing, what a surprise! They clapped and laughed and got dressed quick While their parents just rolled their eyes! They quickly formed the snow outsid......

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Categories: corncob, children, humorous, satire, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Park Bench At Christmas
...In the distance I heard Christmas bells As I strolled through the park as snowflakes fell The trees were all covered in white And Christmas lights were shining bright On a park bench I stop......

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Categories: corncob, christmas, snow,
Form: Rhyme
An Half-Buried Corncob
...Calling and hooting to the wind tiptoeing along the terrified face of the wriggling curtain looking through the window at the trees and their dark ghosts casted upon the blood of the moon o'er......

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Categories: corncob, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas
...Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas! Elves of the hinterland engrossed with plenty work in hand Of decorating the snowy world into a Winter fairy land For season of celebration, Merry Chr......

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Categories: corncob, celebration, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Random Thoughts of a Disgruntled Snowman
...Here I stand on the front lawn for all gawking passersby to see; A convenient spectacle on which neighborhood dogs choose to pee! I try to keep my cool (so to speak) as people make sport of me, Wi......

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Categories: corncob, humorous, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Barely Getting By
...Barely Getting By Lately we barely seem to be getting by And my lovely wife keeps asking me why Pennies saved were earned here and there But bills are sky high piled up everywhere. For us to......

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Categories: corncob, hilarious,
Form: Couplet

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