Those holes
...Dodging one here, dodging one there,
Riding along without a care.
Three in a row, which way do I go,
I close my eyes and curse the so and so.
Oh! what a bang, the old van shook,
But at l...
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Categories:
foot pedal, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Symbolically Speaking
...Cat's eyes glow in concrete
their wings are orange and green
best seen in low light conditions.
Organ pipes are often integral
with large holy edifices,
yet they foot-pedal like any unicycle;
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Categories:
foot pedal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lynette Loves the Seventies
...Lynette was attached to the ambiance of the seventies.
She had a shag rug with large loops and flecks of silver.
Bulb like globs floated in her six lava lamps.
She replaced her accelerator pedal w...
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Categories:
foot pedal, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
If I Were a Taxi Cab
...If I were a taxi cab, I would not charge people.
I would delight them with free rides from St. Louis to New York.
Babies would love being born in my backseat.
I would travel the world, at a good c...
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Categories:
foot pedal, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Personification
Remembering Summer of 1971
...I see the foot petal shaped like a bare foot and I remember.
Summer of 1971, white jeans, pink shirt, driving to beaches.
I smell the fish in the water, memories flood back instantly.
Your hazel e...
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Categories:
foot pedal, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Time Band
...God bangs on golden drums.
Foot pedal to the sun.
A virgin playing base.
Strumming off beat chords.
On lead guitar, Jesus jamming away merrily.
His spirit shinning upon the stage of a runaway st...
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Categories:
foot pedal, god, love,
Form: Rhyme
World's End
...Part 1
This is a true story about world’s end,
But don’t freak out for it was long ago
God’s message must have been garbled
That the prophet’s prophecy failed you know.
And since those days ...
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Categories:
foot pedal, life, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
The Recital
...had her parents forced her into it like so many do,
then she might still be a virtuoso, that is true,
however,
to see a kid make for themselves a hobby into a skill,
just
because
they
want
to,
is...
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Categories:
foot pedal, life,
Form: Free verse