Caught in the Rain
...My water bottle holder
Has a pocket meant for keys
Or a tissue or some money
Or whatever else you please.
When I went out walking yesterday,
I thought I’d beat the rain,
But the sky grew dark...
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Categories:
dampish, rain,
Form: Rhyme
aunt goo is really something
...She threw the best birthday party at eighty-three.
With a hip hip hooray and a whimsical whee…
We could barely get tickets, everyone was there.
She was dancing the watusi in her pink underwear.
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Categories:
dampish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Journey
...Just as free to be in the chill
Of distant waves of air forsake
Up into the alone for thrill
Raw dampish hills to climb and leap
Near only other sound --the break
Ending miles to go before any ...
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Categories:
dampish, journey,
Form: Acrostic
A Live Squirrel In Dead Tree-
...dampish break of day
a dead cottonwood, falls prowls
live squirrel hiding
2/9/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...
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Categories:
dampish, adventure, animal, destiny, engagement,
Form: Haiku
Haiku Squirrel-Rabbit Race
...Haiku SQUIRREL-RABBIT RACE
summertime dampish
clucking squirrel hops in lined
beyond the rabbit
hip pity-hop jump
go move run little rabbit
or the squirrel wins
8/12/21
Written words by...
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Categories:
dampish, adventure, analogy, animal, race,
Form: Haiku
Dampish Eventide-
...dampish eventide
a sunny pathway wallows
because of the guide
so directorate
unto natures glamorize
spring and summertime
lit rose the spring's moon
ever so shining brightly
d...
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Categories:
dampish, analogy, environment, meaningful, morning,
Form: Haiku
Spring Refresher
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Dampish eventide
Thunder lurks raindrops do fall
A jasmine's cocktail
May 17, 2020
8pm P...
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Categories:
dampish, flower, rain, spring,
Form: Haiku
Dog Drinking Pond Water-
...early wet fountain
my gorgeous new puppy barks
at the ripples pond
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oh! dampish fish fountain
this cute little puppy larks
drinks the pond water
4/12/20
Written words b...
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Categories:
dampish, character, dog, spring,
Form: Haiku
A Journey
...In the fog, odyssey
A cheerful adventurer
Free to be
In dampish autumn weather
Hikes into the hills
Awesome and deep
Watching the leafage sweep
Whilst song birds spill
Into the alone to pee...
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Categories:
dampish, journey, weather,
Form: Free verse
Memory
...May succulent grass upon buds in June
I walked alongside you September, arrived in you October,
it began in December and ended in January
I slept in February woke up in March and danced in April
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Categories:
dampish, depression, desire,
Form: Light Verse
Memorys
...May succulent grass upon buds of June
I walked alongside you September arrived in you October,
it began in December and ended in January
I slept in February woke up in March and danced in April
J...
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Categories:
dampish, color,
Form: Light Verse
The Faeries Save the Day
...By the light of the pinkest prettiest orange moon Faerie folk had ever seen,
There was a haze such as the elves could have invented, but maybe not.
It was the magical bewitching hour, and the meado...
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Categories:
dampish, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Clouds Do Not Exist
...CLOUDS DO NOT EXIST
Clouds do not exist - I know, it’s *****.
They're only parts of the atmosphere
Where the moisture is visible, but it’s
Only a temporary condition - just bits
Of air kind...
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Categories:
dampish, science,
Form: Couplet
The Princess Diaries
...My granddaughter Charlotte e-mailed:
"I love you, Nanny, and can I have a poem about princesses?"
Away in some enchanted land
Where every day was Spring,
There lived two fair princesses – ...
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Categories:
dampish, fantasy, children, funny, granddaughter,
Form: I do not know?