Oh, Time
...Oh, time
You eely creature
Slipping slowly
Through our hands
Why must you wriggle so
Deny the moment
Its moment
Mock
The ticking clock
Slither
Through the darkness
Throw down dawn’s gauntl...
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Categories:
eely, time,
Form: Carpe Diem
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Vii
...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VII
Fair Elle was an eely lover
who squiggled beneath the covers ...
She was hard to pin down!
When I did it, she’d frown,
then wouldn’t do none of my druthers!
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Categories:
eely, fun, funny, giggle, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Stone Free
...Seeking out the sanctuaries
till jaggedness wears; blunt
only tumbles harder, to boo
nightmarish: it knocks keen
etching, grooves which rake…
Fleeing sleep, a roused huff
real, wheels in its ...
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Categories:
eely, art,
Form: Free verse
A Good Friend Like Charlie
...Charlie was as eely as a bar of soap.
I knew that in kindergarten when I saw him slip Ms. B’s bracelet into his pocket.
But I did not say anything, because it seemed funny.
He started out shoplift...
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Categories:
eely, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dark Black Night
...Once upon a midnight, ghostly,
Partied many, dead ones mostly.
Feasting in the graveyard, sprightly,
White eyed werewolves gorged, engrossedly.
In the bone yard, drab and squalid,
Apparitions ...
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Categories:
eely, fantasy, horror,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Eel
...Slithering in the depthless waters
We find the eel—never blinking
Rarely has he seen the sun
Encompassed with mistrust
He’s a soloist of the deep
Calm burning in his soul,
We find his home
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Categories:
eely, animals, devotion, life, nature,
Form: Free verse