Washing and Drying Up
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Each night after the evening meal
there was never a discussion
as to who would wash the dishes
and who would do the drying up.
My mother was the washer,
my sister and I did the drying up.
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Categories:
fiddly, memory, mum, sister,
Form: Free verse
ELEPHANT WOMAN
...{ emo music inspired poem }
ELEPHANT WOMAN
She is Elephant Woman
you cannot hide from her
in houses of brick or glass or
lined velvet curtains
whether it sits o...
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Categories:
fiddly, allegory, character, courage, dance,
Form: Free verse
Respect
...We live and die completely
In the material world
It would be rather fiddly
To emulate a Phoenix bird
Our ashes can’t be bothered
Inside their marble urns
No point in fire hazard
Cause we’re a...
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Categories:
fiddly, memory, mystery, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Taste Less
...Fiddly dee, fiddly dum
I love blowing bubbles
With my bubble gum
I chew and chew until it has lost its taste
Then give it to you so it won't waste,
The bubbles left in my bubble gum....
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Categories:
fiddly, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
concocting a youth potion
...I shall do a dish and a dash and a ha ha ha
making myself young, so fiddly fah lah lah
so saying, the old witch gave a loud gaffaw
her cauldron boiled and bubbled next to her bra
I pretend to c...
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Categories:
fiddly, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Candelabra Ghost
...candelabra ghost did a cha cha cha
He had the whole mansion to himself
Fiddly dee, fiddly whimsical mccaw
he grabbed two candelabras down from the shelf
It was heavy, sure, but looked great whe...
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Categories:
fiddly, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
The Greenhouse - a True Story
...I have a little greenhouse
It sits wobbly on the hill
Constructed from a kitset
Requiring monumental skill
A 40 page instruction book
Said it was a simple task to do
But I was not convinced
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Categories:
fiddly, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Disappointment At the Shoe Store
...I go knowing exactly what I want
I am particular in my liking
Shoes must be comfortable to wear
For both dancing and for hiking
I know they say they flatter
But stilettos are not my fave
Let’...
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Categories:
fiddly, humor,
Form: Rhyme
When I Threw the Unhandy Gloves Away
...When I threw the wee unhandy gloves away,
The smiling little cold hands watched the display,
And the clock struck ‘high five’ and chimed ‘hooray’
Putting gloves on small hand...
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Categories:
fiddly, humor,
Form: Villanelle
Tinselry
...Varying tactics to deftest tongues,
I find it a futile taxing of tired lungs;
She hears finer tropes with disdain,
And loves lips that deal daring pain.
For fibs she sworn truths exchanged; ...
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Categories:
fiddly, allegory, allusion, discrimination, wedding,
Form: Ode
Alliteration On a Therapist's Treatment
...ALLITERATION
ON A THERAPIST’S TREATMENT
To physically fit my fickle frame
I found the fame of the following dame:
From sit to somewhat surely stand
I can, when I concur with her command.
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Categories:
fiddly, humor, word play, words,
Form: Light Verse
Stuffed Toys and Boardgames
...Stuffed Toys And Boardgames
A tinker mending
clockwork trains
And other broken things,
Peered over his
wiry spectacles
Scrutinising unwound springs.
Between the jars
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Categories:
fiddly, childhood, irony, mother son,
Form: Rhyme
I Set Off On An Ambitious Journey
...I set off on an ambitious journey;
Several years gone I embarked on a travel
To a beautiful destination miles away,
And I did not know the paths very well.
I thought it would take a year or two...
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Categories:
fiddly, loss,
Form: Verse
Johnny Knuckleblaster and the Fish
...Jhonny Knuckleblaster
dum diddly did,
go further
on doddly down
the crick
than his durn daddy had
ever before
He fiddly middly found
a fine finny fish
big as a wish
larger, larger, large...
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Categories:
fiddly, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Tribute To a Friend
...Liberty's tree is reeling drunk indeed
upon the life of saints and patriots alike
though I speak of a hit and run strike
men are crushed in her wine press of need
Why did she pluck such a good ...
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Categories:
fiddly, africa, anger, death of
Form: Rhyme
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