Shh Babies Are Sleeping
...Shh! Babies are sleeping Dorie said.
Slumbering in dreamland with her Uncle Fred
Tummies full of dolly potatoes, they are amply fed
Especially after gulping down cinnamon bread
Two dreaming of ...
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Categories:
dorie, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Have You Ever Dialed a Sunflower
...Have you ever dialed a sunflower?
Lawrence stared at Dorie, she was a beauty
And he was in love with her.
His grandpa had admitted he had dated a ginger once.
But grandma came in so that was th...
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Categories:
dorie, love,
Form: Narrative
Dorie - Fv
...Born Doris, named for our grandmother Doris Owens,
she is nothing much like grandma.
If anything, I am more like grandma
for my thrifty ways and down-to-earth practicality.
Doris, nicnamed Dori...
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Categories:
dorie, sister,
Form: Free verse
Ascending Ray
...D-arkness
O-f
R-ain
I-s
E-rased
G-radually
A-s
R-ay
C-learly
I-s
A-scending
Topic: Birthday of Dorie Garcia (May 14)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
dorie, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Clark Simmons
...Since I was the oldest of three sisters with a mum,
As my dad had died when I was at an age young,
I thought I’d join the navy to help out my family,
But I excluded the black segregation code an...
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Categories:
dorie, appreciation, conflict, death, hero,
Form: Heroic Couplet