do not lie to me
...I was trying to help the birdie the diabolical cat lied
I saw my parakeet Poindexter, shivering by his side
Then why does he look frozen with fear? I asked the cat.
I think he saw something awful,...
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Categories:
fibbed, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Refurbished Fairy Tales: The Real Skinny on Snow White
...!!!CAVEAT LECTOR!!! This one's a bit naughty, dear readers...
You've heard of Snow White
And the story reported
Of the seven wee dudes
With whom she consorted.
Well, here's the actual skinny
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Categories:
fibbed, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Do Not Lie to Me
...I was trying to help the birdie the diabolical cat lied
I saw my parakeet Poindexter, shivering by his side
Then why does he look frozen with fear? I asked the cat.
I think he saw something awful,...
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Categories:
fibbed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Keeper
...I have watched you love yourself and seen you fight
You find it difficult to fight yourself but you still try
For the battle against oneself is usually really tight
But you remain in the ring eve...
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Categories:
fibbed, devotion, endurance, for her,
Form: Rhyme
My Family Is Mucked Up
...My family is all mucked up she tells her date.
We have multiple diagnoses.
My dad is mentally deranged, a psychopath.
He has probably killed people.
My mom is a freak, she has early onset Alzhe...
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Categories:
fibbed, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Do These Glasses Make Us Look Fat
...Do these glasses make us look fat?
Who looks worse, me or Matt?
I looked up to do a quadruple take.
A mistake I did not care to make.
Why are zebras so hard to raise?
They gave me a nod, Ted g...
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Categories:
fibbed, animal, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Telling White Lies
...Telling "White Lies"
My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four sibl...
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Categories:
fibbed, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Murky Mess
...once …
there - with trunks of monkey’s meth
there grew a breadth of bunky breaths
deplored by dreaded, drunky deaths
to calm their chemic coggers
the fame of phlegmic foggers
so deep and d...
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Categories:
fibbed, analogy, dark, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Five Chameleon Sisters
...five chameleon sisters with talents none shared
dancing the day awake in a Nebraskan hay field
one was a dancer, dreaming of Broadway and Park Avenue
one was a soothsayer, seeing three of their fu...
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Categories:
fibbed, sister,
Form: Free verse
Romantic Getaway With a Freaking-Out Spouse
...She really wanted to see a ghost…ecstatically excited.
She heard this place had plenty, and a spooky atmosphere.
She’d have to pinch herself, ready to cheer…elated.
She’d spend a romantic weekend ...
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Categories:
fibbed, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Goldilocks Now
...But, my friend said, if Goldilocks was alive today her story would be different:
we’re just so used to the fairy tale message, the simplified right and wrong of it.
Women today are too afraid to ...
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Categories:
fibbed, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
You Lie She Said
...You lie she said.
For she was not nice.
It’s the truth, he fibbed.
He did it twice.
Are we friends? She asked.
As she scooted away
Sure, he lied. For that was his way....
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Categories:
fibbed, character,
Form: Free verse
Back In the Day
...We burned a bunch of matches
My buddy Dane and me
Then we burned an outhouse up
The smell was way ugly!
Next we burned a little shed.
Was not me, we fibbed notoriously together.
Then we burne...
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Categories:
fibbed, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Telling White Lies
...Telling "White Lies"
My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four sibl...
...
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Categories:
fibbed, abuse, age, america, child
Form: Ballad
His Story Replay
...Columbus despised local folk
Like Trump, he fibbed as he spoke
But truth be told
He wanted their gold
And you know that man ended up broke...
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Categories:
fibbed, america, betrayal, columbus day,
Form: Limerick
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