School Fantasy Poems

Jack and Jill were brother and sister, whose environs were hilly and green;
And they groomed horses and worked in gardens, oft 'til a moonlight scene.

They...

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(Lyrics written to the tune of: "That Old Black Magic" *NOTE: Maintain forward tune throughout all six stanzas; last three stanzas don't revert to original...

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When you know you've been the fool...
    As if you're ready to re-enroll in school.

But then you realize, no matter the shame...

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Goldilocks was found lying in bed
at a house she broke into
they say she jumped out the window-
her fear of the bears was so great

but I...

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A dream of dreams, then quickly vanished.
A dragon stitched through billowing clouds,
A fold-up wooded paper kingdom appeared.
I slowly sat up in my bed, right on...

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Once I thought 
I’d find the
future fraught. 

But luckily
Yale said I ought
earn their J.D.
I’ll soon be taught! 

Paralegal’s glee!
My doubts were for naught!
Soon I am...

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Her mother said “no color”
Her father would concur. 
He never went against her mother.
Neither did her sister or her brother.

But I am an artist, she...

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The Fantasy of Childhood

There was a tiny house near the main house built I think to house the elderly, but ended up being a place...

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I was an elementary school teacher, with dreaming eyes to the rosy future,
Like the emerald, cherry blossom season, arriving later rather than sooner.

As a creative...

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He fell first thinking it was ephemeral
He fell first , slowly, softly 
That he couldn't tell
He fell first but she couldn't sense it untill
He poured...

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When AI comes for me
    I shall gladly agree
  Here, sucker, please take my class
    They're a regular...

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Emma Frost (aka White Queen) is a powerful character in Marvel Comics.  Is
she a hero or villain?  Sometimes, it is hard to know!...

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the insistent dragons are back
I watch them fly over Gibraltar hill.
Outside petunias are crowding toward the house
There is a castle waiting for me in the...

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Trapped behind a desk, first at school, then at work
    Why on earth are folks such awful jerks
  If we didn't...

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"The Payload" 

The payload 
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly 
of a ruinous pregnant cloud 
bilious with buxom promise

it came crashing down 
like...

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