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Lemony

...[Verse]
Fourteen years old
So I am told
Lately, she really shows it
Except at meals
She barks and squeals
The time? It’s like she knows it

[Verse]
She sleeps all day
Then wants to play
Be...

Categories: deaf as a post, dog,
Form: Lyric

A Most Unusual Evangelical One-Man Band

...An old preacher named Ned
Got it into his head
To make a musical pilgrimage
Before he was dead.
He claimed divine inspiration
To form a band and tour the nation,
And by so doing treat its ills,...

Categories: deaf as a post, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Violin

...Bought home in a battered case one day 
He took it out and and scratched away
Playing out of tune and terribly flat
He scared the daylights out of the cat

The horsehair that ran along the bow
...

Categories: deaf as a post, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Living Life Large

...I can’t see a damn thing; it’s that time of night
The road is too dim, but the sunset’s too bright.

I’m driving by sounds, yes, I’m driving by feel.
In a couple of minutes, guess I’ll grab the w...

Categories: deaf as a post, song, travel,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Deafness Is Serious

...Old Clarry was deaf; yes deaf as a post,
and couldn't hear a word that was said.
But he'd sit alone while we conversed,
when we gathered in young Harry's shed.

I suppose old age gets us all in ...

Categories: deaf as a post, humor,
Form: Rhyme

No One Told Me What To Do

...No One Told Me what To DO

So I just go on
Following You

But my own words I make into prose
and still make mistakes from my toes

AS I never said I was a poet
And If I was I would not know ...

Categories: deaf as a post, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Cucumber Pie

...Are cucumbers cool
As a general rule?
How fresh is a daisy?
Are loons always crazy?

How snug is a bug
When he’s not in a rug?
How gentle are lambs
If not happy as clams?

How clever’s a fo...

Categories: deaf as a post, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

Voting Booth Conversation

...My African-American
young adolescent daughter,
since she was age five
needing a therapeutic home and family,
with Oppositional Disorder
and deviantly diverse neural-cognitive communication patte...

Categories: deaf as a post, bullying, daughter, discrimination, health,
Form: Political Verse

Like, As

...i never saw the doornail die
never caught sight of a fox that sly

i didn't cure a dog so sick
didn't steal a glance of thieves so thick

i can't walk tight a rail that thin
can't see some sight as u...

Categories: deaf as a post, humorous, introspection, on writing
Form: Couplet