MOUSE HOUSE
...MOUSE HOUSE*
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In my shoe, I found quite a sight,
a small mouse, with fur soft and light.
He twitched and he squeaked,
as I gasped and I freaked,
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Categories:
field mouse, 12th grade, humorous, in
Form: Limerick
In my green field
...Laying in the summer sun in a field of green grass
In the distance a lake shimmering like a pain of clear glass
Birds are singing their sweet songs in the bushes and trees
And the soothin...
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Categories:
field mouse, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Faerie
...October brought in pumpkins, but also Priscila, autumn faerie.
Adorned in tangerines, oranges, yellows, her mood bright and airy.
She did not make herself known to the humans in the house.
But she...
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Categories:
field mouse, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Letters From Me Heart To The Board Of Sweet Grace
...Grace’s Council — Open...
One fine day, a little dit of a field-mouse, so tiny and meek, an avid reader of letters came to a freeze; dry-iced to her fav’rite spot at Grace’s library. As her teeny ...
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Categories:
field mouse, emotions, friendship love, heart,
Form: Light Verse
Manifesto
...Deprivation of my rights and freedom
Bodily autonomy, tossed out of
a terrace window, seventy-third floor
of a building in New York that touches
the same ground I walk on, yet reaches much
h...
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Categories:
field mouse, political, women,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
COLD-KU
...Idle nests linger
Fledgling feathers learn to fly
Angry winds scowl
The old bell shivers
Its tone muted in the cold
A fox perks its ears
A lost mitten weeps
What am I going to be
A f...
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Categories:
field mouse, animal, winter,
Form: Haiku
when I was beautiful
...When I was beautiful
A rose in bloom
a field mouse
Climbed my stem
fell asleep in the center
To inhale and sleep
in my fragrance.
The rave
had no sense of beauty
I was a lure
The struggle...
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Categories:
field mouse, age, art, beautiful,
Form: Bio
Life Raft in Amber
...When brother was fading away
black chimes signaled for the demons to play
They attacked all sides of the hobbled mind
Treating the heart like an orphaned marble
They were rabid and had brackish i...
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Categories:
field mouse, brother, god,
Form: Free verse
God Controls Time
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God Controls Time
Miracle Man
8/20/2024
From high on it’s perch,
a patient hawk seeks it’s prey.
Also with each clock tick,
God is shortening man’s day
It’s “survival of the fi...
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Categories:
field mouse, life, nature, time,
Form: Quatrain
Surreality of Girlish Dreams
...The girl and her smile straddle the rainbow
neon hair the fluid cascades of northern lights
seafoam cloak the ripples outgrown by the shore
she adores the breeze adorned with gems
emeralds fly ...
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Categories:
field mouse, dream, fantasy, fun, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Buzzard Gets His Lunch
...teeny tiny field mouse did not have a chance there
eagle-eyed red headed buzzard spotted him from the air
swooped down, then took mouse up to fifteen thousand feet
making him into a squirming wigg...
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Categories:
field mouse, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Expansions
...The sweeping stops
the world cuts its own grass
feeds itself with the living
while the dead grow trees and turf.
You notice things,
the eyes of your eyes are open lattice windows,
shutters ta...
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Categories:
field mouse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Employing the Wind
...Employing the Wind
The red-tailed hawk sails across
the backdrop of the April blue sky
Employing the wind as he defies gravity
with the gesture of his tail and ease of his conscience
His great...
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Categories:
field mouse, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Jump On Back of This Porcupine
...Pixie’s favorite steed is a porcupine.
I thought this was an exaggeration, some kind of line.
Surely that is not true, don’t they have prickly quills?
If you get them young, they will give you thr...
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Categories:
field mouse, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Harry Horsman
...Harry Horsman's treatment was withdrawn over a week ago and they are making him comfortable, he is now in Hospice care.
Susan Ashly…we can only hope that Hospice care can keep Harry comfortable. M...
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Categories:
field mouse, caregiving, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
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