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Summer Lacings
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CayCay Jennings
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croquet, appreciation, autumn, fishing, games,
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DIASPORA
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Leon Enriquez
| Couplet |
croquet, change,
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CHEERIO AS THEY SAY
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Line Gauthier
| Monorhyme |
croquet, adventure, cute love, funny
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FOR LAURA - POEM WITHIN A POEM
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Line Gauthier
| Rhyme |
croquet, best friend, friendship, middle
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Croquet on the lawn at three pm
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Taoi Chanan
| I do not know? |
croquet, addiction, america, baseball, basketball,
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oh reaching a net then
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Taoi Chanan
| I do not know? |
croquet,
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An octagonal Oh is often a yearly yawn pattern but not a trend
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Taoi Chanan
| I do not know? |
croquet, america, baseball, basketball, beauty,
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travestational
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Taoi Chanan
| I do not know? |
croquet, best friend,
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The Haunting of the Snark: An Anxiety in 13 Bits
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Jerome Malenfant
| Rhyme |
croquet, humorous, nonsense, parody, science,
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genealogical genes grabbing golden geese
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Taoi Chanan
| I do not know? |
croquet, arabic, art, beautiful, bible,
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ironing is interesting but not on many tables
by Taoi Chanan
If a pink elephant rides on a green wave then the tarantula will be under great pressure. Chains are a peril. Particularly when placed upon...
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croquet, beautiful,
The croquet lawn
by Nigel Fawcett
Border
guard hoops
and hedgehog balls;
striking flamingos; painted-rose
walls...
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Cinquain |
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croquet, books, writing,
Queen of hearts
by Nigel Fawcett
On
croquet lawn,
a coldhearted queen
swearing heads will come
off...
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Cinquain |
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croquet, books, writing,
Biking Through Salt Lake City
by Nicholas Rush
Biking through Salt Lake City
Homes of well knit, croquet stature
With Oxford fountains flowing
Forcibly pin my eye
I pedal a block to see streets missing teeth
Bank signs,...
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Imagism |
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Categories:
croquet, image, imagery,
Clipped Crops and Croquet Mallets
by Debbie Guzzi
I miss so many things: the old pear tree, which once lived by the walk and the bees inside. The bees almost never stung, but...
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Haibun |
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Categories:
croquet, beauty,
THE CHAMPAGNE SOCIALIST
by Darryl Ashton
(For those of you who don't know - Lord Two Jags - John Prescott,
was the deputy Prime Minister to "President" Prime Minister Tony Blair...
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Ode |
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Categories:
croquet, satire,
Wrecks On The Nine
by Sara Kendrick
Tom took a day off for golf to play
His game should have been simpler croquet
Bruised head and scraped knees
His cart like swiss cheese
Wrecks on the...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
croquet, humorous,
Spatterdock Croquet
by Ian Thomas Phillips
When Nature frees the lotus
(This year's debut emergence)
From their sleeping seeds,
When they begin...
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croquet, flower, nature,
Ramblers
by Terry O'Leary
’Tween hither and thither we wended our way
skipping, dancing through sand dunes, in seascape croquet.
While woven in waves watching dolphins at play
I first tasted her...
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Quatrain |
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croquet, fantasy, love,
ALICE MEETS ULYSSES
by Sidney Beck
ALICE MEETS ULYSSES
On a string up in the sky her activity was flying a cat.
She just wouldn’t say, the...
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croquet, allegory, planet,
The Joys of Spring
by Charles Clive
Oh do you dream of England,
when Spring is in the air?
The hum of bees on gentle breeze
is all that you will hear,
except for farmers, turning...
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croquet, seasons, spring, spring,
Brothers Day
by mike dailey
There’s Father’s Day
There’s Mother’s Day
Why can’t there be Brother’s Day
Maybe in the month of May
Set it up without delay
A Brother’s Day
Mom and Dad would...
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croquet, brother, childhood, family, children,
The Tea Party
by Debbie Guzzi
A game of musical chairs has just begun in earnest. A pot and kettle band arrives
through the dining rooms’ French doors following the Valentine...
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croquet, childhood, fantasy, childrenchild, child,
beating the dead horse in the ribs with a croquet mallet
by andrew delapruch
and now we bask in the bloodlust
waiting for another reason
to whimper,
“why do they hate us?”...
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Free verse |
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croquet, political
Dreamland
by brittany martin
Cats play the fiddle,
Flowers love to whistle,
Trees would grow candy
on their heads.
The birds are always wise,
the bugs love being high
and a crazy woman
down the...
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croquet, adventurelove,
Buttered Toast And Trains
by Tony Bush
His dreams of buttered toast and trains became
Beleaguered by town-planners and architectural sharks
Who erected on his green and pleasant visions
The blight...
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Verse |
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Categories:
croquet, history, loss, nostalgia, on