Age Appropriate
...Whining, is age appropriate,
With wrinkles - both newborns and aged.
Boo-hoos - in cradle; before grave.
The old straitened; babes’ swaddled.
With wrinkles, both newborns and aged,
The...
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Categories:
diapered, age,
Form: Pantoum
Trains
...It’s a boy thing
the clickety-clack, clickety-clack
of a train along its tracks
all manner of boys
from diapered toddler
to arthritic codger
from suited gent
to aproned chef
the clickety-c...
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Categories:
diapered, father son,
Form: Prose Poetry
They Took Him
...They Took Him
By Sy Roth
They took him and squirreled him away.
Those Sophists,
Deniers of the terror they could construct
Where he no longer saw the human side of himself.
Half man, Quasi...
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Categories:
diapered, angst,
Form: Free verse
Footles On Grandpas
...Cantankerous Grandpa
Snappy
Pappy
Jolly Old Fellow
Happy
Pappy
Overly-Sentimental Grandpa
Sappy
Pappy
Diapered Grandpa
Nappy
Pappy
Naptime for Grandpa
Pappy
Nappy
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Categories:
diapered, humorous,
Form: Footle
So Little Time
...
A little diddle time
To write loathsome rhyme
Restarts your sensing fine
Some dig a mine to cipher
Parlayed a broken cause
You stumbled on my clause
Dement recusing paused
Tears o...
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Categories:
diapered, age, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Nakshatra Nights
...(Nakshatra is Sanskrit word for constellation of stars )
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A midnight canopy diapered in silvery dust
glows ...
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Categories:
diapered, fate, planet, stars,
Form: Free verse
Cherish Each Moment With a Grandchild
...My grandchildren are growing up faster than dandelions on a summer’s day.
One second they are pulling themselves up on couches,
and falling on their diapered bottoms.
The next minute they are goi...
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Categories:
diapered, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Asifa's Blood Pens
...Asifa's Blood Pens
(The Courageous Princess)
No! No! Wipe out the name of Asifa!
No more Asifa's on this earth to be born!
O Lord, my creator, my benefactor, my protector!
My parents chose m...
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Categories:
diapered, child abuse, community, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Depends
...Walk slowly and chew gum
eating prunes makes you run
Thinking of what you should have said
spending more then what you have
Time flies young boys sigh
when they grow and realize
Little girls ...
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Categories:
diapered, fun, humorous, life, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Cupids Arrow
...I think that cupids arrow
Must have been full to the touch
Cause when he sent that nock your way
It barely made a scuff
It didn't find its way inside
Your heart like I had hoped
Or did it mis...
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Categories:
diapered, funny, humor, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
These Hands
...Aching hands, aged and scarred
Wrinkled, arthritic with callouses so hard
Knuckles swollen from times being broken
Now weathered and weak, quite painful to open
In days of youth, they used to p...
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Categories:
diapered, appreciation, humor, imagery, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
- Nature's Psalms - 1
...Is Beethoven's ensemble fairer than nature's psalms?
Amidst a crowning sun: ears and eyes are drugged,
drenched with tender notes, orchestrated by greens,
inhale deep, the aromatic blosso...
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Categories:
diapered, beautiful, bird, drug, imagery,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Zwieback Warrior
...The Zweiback Warrior
Zweiback cookies – teething biscuits
Yucky, gnawed upon, gummed delights
Xeric surface absorbing wanton drool
Wielded, by the toothless cherub, in
Valiant fencing stance...
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Categories:
diapered, children, humor, metaphor,
Form: Abecedarian
Circle of Life
...A baby was named this past Saturday
At a service that I attended.
On Sunday there was a memorial
To remember a life that has ended.
One weekend’s events, back to back, in fact,
Help remind us we mus...
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Categories:
diapered, death, introspection, life, ,
Form: Rhyme
Me,The Diapered Kid
...Cupid's arrow missed your heart,
an uphill task waits for me,
should I be diapered kid
and try my hand once?
© kashinath karmakar
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Placement: 4th;(March 2011)
Contest:Winged ...
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Categories:
diapered, funny, love
Form: Dodoitsu
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