When you sang, dreams croaked, then you ceased to be a volcano
When you sang, dreams croaked, then you ceased to be a volcano,
It was simpler to become a rock, not letting yourself be unraveled by the waves of myopia.
After seasons died in your arms, resigned to your cold might,
You questioned if perhaps all flowers tear their petals in vain for you.
You were left emptied of greenness,
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Categories:
croaked, song,
Form: Free verse
Curtailed Melody Croaked
There lived in bog a frog who was aloof,
croaked string music, his clan called him a goof.
Plunged in deep water for prey,
swam struggling, kept risk at bay,
seeing his friend, the fiddler on the roof.
The frog ate the prey, swam back steadily,
the fiddler strummed strings for him zestfully.
Lost balance, from roof he fell,
his forearm broke like
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Categories:
croaked, adventure, analogy, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The Frog Croaked
Stop digging like some kind of dope
I’m not sitting here without hope
It’s been quite a slog
To train my pet frog
But Freddo is bringing a rope
He’s like a small, slimey Lone Ranger
He’ll rescue a friend or a stranger
We had a few words
Re frog eating birds
But he’s well aware of the danger
So why are you getting
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Categories:
croaked, confidence, faith, trust,
Form: Limerick
De-Billitation
There once was a patient named Phil,
A tough one the doc couldn't kill.
He left the hospital
As fit as a fiddle
But croaked when he opened the bill.
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Categories:
croaked, health, humor,
Form: Limerick
Pervoked and Croaked By Trump
Provoked and Croaked
Elegant words from mouth of Trump evoked;
Even those complacent became provoked;
No denying;
He was spying,
And what we wish is that he had crooked.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
croaked, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
The Day Fergus the Frog Croaked
THE DAY FERGUS THE FROG CROAKED
(A Children's Rhyme by Joan Donnelly Ellis Oct. 2015)
Fergus the Frog was lazy and fat and a worshipper of idleness
He'd lie on his lily pad all day ...refusing to work ....didn't care to play.
Had no interests...no not one.
One afternoon a visit to the swamp Uncle Fred made
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Categories:
croaked, children,
Form: Rhyme
The Raven Who Croaked
The raven who croaked
Exclusively "Nevermore"
Was one astute bird.
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Categories:
croaked, introspection,
Form: Haiku