EVERYBODY HAS A STORY
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Sometimes we are concentrating so hard on our own story…and things we’re going through
we have a tendency to forget other people are in the midst of their story too.
An elderly woman walked int...
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Categories:
cut a rug, life,
Form: Rhyme
Barney my pet pincher Bug
...My pet is a pincher bug
Called earwig said cousin Doug
Takes little room, lies on my mug
I click photo, he looks quite smug
He can really dance and cut a rug
I love Barney Bee my pincher bug...
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Categories:
cut a rug, women,
Form: Monorhyme
Core Memories
...Scrapped slew of core concert memories,
they come back to me with an intro;
Set opens with that number one hit,
the crowd roars with the very first chord;
They come back to me with an intro,
t...
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Categories:
cut a rug, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Pantoum
It Gives Me the Jitters
...You would need giant shears
To cut a rug,
And why should anyone need to do it?
In their 20s and 30s, they jitterbugged
If you had the energy to pursue it
The jitterbug was a lively dance
That...
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Categories:
cut a rug, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
'exceptional,' His Benchmark
...Integrity, his middle name
'Tops' was his trademark
Scrupulous in all he did
'Exceptional,' his benchmark
Low maintenance for every boss he'd had
Beloved of his Mom and Dad
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Categories:
cut a rug, heartbroken, husband, relationship, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Resurrection Polka Musical Chairs
...Water is uniquely ancient, yet it hasn’t aged a day.
It’s older than Dr. Leakey’s bones.
Older than Olduvai Gorge.
Water is older than life itself,
Unaltered by evolution’s chaotic ebb and flow....
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Categories:
cut a rug, allegory, america, life,
Form: Burlesque
I Remember Then
...I remember when soda pop was a nickel
Same for a double strawberry popsicle,
Back then the best cars had long tailfins
We did silly things for “sh*ts and grins,”
Turned-up collars and...
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Categories:
cut a rug, childhood, growing up, memory,
Form: Couplet
These Old Boots
...These old boots, they've sure been around. They don't know where their goin' but they sure know where they've been. Drinkin' Corona and dancing with a Mexican Senorita in Jaurez, the smell of perfume...
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Categories:
cut a rug, western,
Form: Free verse
Pants Dance
...there was a warthog who danced
who dipped, swirled, rocked, slid and pranced
to cut the rug and swing
was his favorite thing
until he danced off his pants...
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Categories:
cut a rug, animal,
Form: Limerick
Bear and Porcupine
...I just ran into Miss Bear,
At the beauty parlor frosting her hair,
Says she's been there all day,
Trying to hide that pesky gray.
Said she has a date with Mr. Porcupine,
Looking later for a go...
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Categories:
cut a rug, animal, romance,
Form: Personification
Seahorses
...We humans like all creatures to have a purpose, an aim,
From one-celled amoebas to fungi-spore glebas,
They need a good reason to compete in life's game.
Consider cats: They school us in hygiene
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Categories:
cut a rug, fish, meaningful, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Dancin' Sue
...There was a lady named Susan
Always worryin’, frettin’ and stewin’
Talkin’ woe is me’ to old man Lance
Who coaxed and cajoled her to dance
Lo and behold! They could cut a rug
Doin' the cha-cha...
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Categories:
cut a rug, dance, encouraging, humor, smile,
Form: Rhyme
New Brother Gone
...Hello my Bro, it seems long ago
We didn’t know but it started way back when
And now, I sure wish I could see you again
After all those years when our lives were apart
We finally met and were just...
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Categories:
cut a rug, bereavement, brother, cancer, death,
Form: I do not know?
Git Yo Praize Onz
...holler say what
yo yo yo
all the saint over there rise on up
git on up
everybody else where
git on up hold them arms, hand and eyes up toward the heavens
things gonna git better
(when you)
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Categories:
cut a rug, appreciation, blessing, hip hop,
Form: Free verse
Special Occasions
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I was nothing but a wall flower
in my early teens
Went to house parties and stood against the wall;
watching everybody dance, grooving on the floor,
wasn't no fun at all
Until my oldest sis...
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Categories:
cut a rug, dance, fun, sister, teenage,
Form: Bio
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