Dietary Shortcomings
...An aardvark went looking for bugs,
but he found, to consume, only slugs:
he pondered his luck,
and soliloquised, “Yuck!
No wonder that people do drugs!”
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Categories:
dietary, food,
Form: Limerick
Might Never Makes Right
...Violence in the political party
A pebble thrown to defend oneself from a barrage of 100- stones
The bully then complains of abuse—might never makes right
will we unite?—I...
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Categories:
dietary, abuse, anti bullying, character,
Form: Political Verse
Waxing Nostalgic for School Daze, Eh
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‘the sole surviving minnow floats
recipe-laden toward the NGO* shark’
~ edie-bidi chili-bidi
Please write a 300-word
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Categories:
dietary, 12th grade, humor, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
SOME NECK
...SOME NECK
There was a big and small giraffe
They were always up for a laugh
Following spurious dietary wishes
Ate up all the zookeeper’s dishes
So much food, it made them barf
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Categories:
dietary, animal, character, funny,
Form: Limerick
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
...Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while able bodied and mindedness
readies cemetery pl...
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Categories:
dietary, addiction, age, angel, atheist,
Form: Free verse
A Delicious Bowl of Soup
...Written: August 23, 2023
Soup Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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In t...
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Categories:
dietary, analogy, appreciation, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Blood
...O life, in plasma form! O red stream in my veins!
Cells, platelets, tissues, fibers, water, and salts wrapped!
O, you who carry oxygen to my each cell!
O, you who maintain minute warmth of my bo...
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Categories:
dietary, life, relationship,
Form: Blank verse
Robbie - Ham Guilty For Gobbledygook
...I, A. Robbie - Ham guilty for gobbledygook...
and ruffling turkey feathers!
An innocent A1 miss steak kin kith
once, a former main lion resident
living social where Tigress and Euphrates
con...
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Categories:
dietary, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
My New Year Resolutions
...My new year resolutions are solutions for the soul
My changing evolutions for a lack of self-control
My ready revolutions for a day of liberty
Are heady substitutions for the way I wish to be
N...
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Categories:
dietary, self, senses, strength,
Form: Rhyme
The Family Christmas Dinner
...It's Christmas time again
And it seems I am the winner
Because I drew the short straw
To host the Family Christmas Dinner
I'm stressing out already
Although it's still a month away
There...
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Categories:
dietary, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Knotty Ash
...Darkness descends and most folk
Are slowly wending to their bed
But, across there in Knotty Ash
Some Locals are stirring instead.
The residents of Diddyland,
Where the sun always shines,
Are ...
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Categories:
dietary, celebration, fantasy, humor, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Entertaining the Family
...Our Kitty’s allergic to peanuts,
Most don’t eat meat anymore,
Lynn and Tim are Vegans
Alex is a staunch carnivore.
Vegan, Veggies and carnies
All coming to visit for lunch
Sue was tearing her h...
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Categories:
dietary, family, history, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Only Death Goes Round
...Landlords are in the cemetery
Welcoming new comers as host
Who ain't any more dietary
Cos it isn't duly of ghost
Either to chance or grace do toast
But rather await fate's bread spell
Which ca...
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Categories:
dietary, anxiety, art, blue, death,
Form: Ballade
Marriage To Alarmingly Ballooning
...Marriage to alarmingly ballooning...
dramatically expanding spouse,
when adorning buttons
pop off undersized blouse
which spurs yours truly to grouse,
and ruffle mine tail feathers
while li...
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Categories:
dietary, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Refined White Values
...While trickling thick amber honey
in my black decoffied coffee
I wonder why I never noticed
until just ever now
How refined white sugar
has monopolized my wider full-hued view
of more nurturi...
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Categories:
dietary, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
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