Crumby
...When you’re eating a cookie
Or pastry or cake
Or any sweet offering
Someone did bake
There are bound to be crumbs
On your plate left behind
(For the ones for whom finger-licks
Are too refine...
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Categories:
crumby, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Soup For Soupers
...SOUP FOR SOUPERS
Hello ! My dear Souper friends:
Me the Master Chef ! Well trained.
Also an expert cook veteran.
Following message: I am ready to...
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Categories:
crumby, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Murdered For No Good Reason
...I was murdered by an escaped convict for no good reason the other day.
It was not nice, and it made me unhappy, and I wanted to get away.
But I jumped up instead, and I hit my crumby mean murderer ...
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Categories:
crumby, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Burlesque
Waiting For a Good One
...She cannot keep a job; she has had several. Anger issues.
Cannot spell or write either, or be nice, but those are secondary problems.
Showed up at ten, was supposed to be there at 7:45; always good...
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Categories:
crumby, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Both Feet Are Happy
...My foot is happy. I know by her wiggle.
She hops in the lazy chair, making me giggle.
Hungry is my tummy.
Gums are feeling crumby.
Both feet dancing now, causing me to jiggle....
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Categories:
crumby, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Limerick
Why God Made Poets
...WHY GOD MADE POETS
I once asked God
why He made poets.
He said: I needed someone
with a big mouth who'd communicate
the ups and downs of life
in an honest, simple, straightforward way;
someo...
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Categories:
crumby, blessing, courage, dedication, devotion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Crumby
...I mailed out home-baked cookies;
The recipients got crumbs.
Though really, when you bite a cookie,
That’s what it becomes.
It wasn’t my intention,
(I knew not what I was doing
When I wrapped ...
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Categories:
crumby, food,
Form: Rhyme
No Viking Way
...For days now, my wife, i and some friends, have been working on costumes for Viking's day at our up coming Renaissance festival, went suddenly Poetry Fever hit, this is the result---hope you enjoy it...
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Categories:
crumby, appreciation, change, clothes, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
Donut People
...Donut People
Not all donut people are large or police or thieves
Nor are they thin, eating only greens and leaves and vitamins
Or exercising on the side of reasons muscularity
All this takes ti...
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Categories:
crumby, children, desire, food, fun,
Form: Quatrain
Oreo
...Black tie
Sweet crisp and old
It's not a tuxedo style Joe event
It's not the plain vanilla sweat, tears, and fears
My dear
It's the sugar and imprint of guilt on my cookie
It's the finger tha...
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Categories:
crumby, forgiveness
Form: Free verse