The Big Tuba
...The soups and breads were fixed
know seemed to have interest
In that. One commented that the
Chickens used in the soup were as
big as geese, naming one kingKong.
Garlic and margine was used w...
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Categories:
frig, basketball, culture, dance, film,
Form: Ballad
Cleaning Frenzied Me
...I started with one small corner of my kitchen
Set the timer, so I could stop in fifteen minutes
Set the timer eight more times until the floor was scrubbed
The counters were scraped, the table was...
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Categories:
frig, me,
Form: Narrative
Life's Happy Play
...
What earthly things do I have to say
The world's still round same stuff each day
Happy as a pig
So what the frig
Why can't we all act happy in life's happy play
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Categories:
frig, life,
Form: Limerick
somewhere in here are purses
...My garage houses sixteen hundred paintings you see.
Large cartoons on canvases, painted by me.
There are floor to wall shelves, crammed full.
My garage is alive, a living, breathing happy soul.
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Categories:
frig, woman, women,
Form: Rhyme
Durerea pe care nu o simt - RO
...Undeva departe
Emo?iile ?i-au facut adapost
Afara ploua ?i e frig..
Ele, tremura, sperând la un anotimp mai bun
Înainte de pisc, au fost îndrumate de un calugar
El le-a urnit din loc ?i le-a d...
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Categories:
frig, adventure, emotions, forgiveness, friendship,
Form: Free verse
they dont do this to you
...my dogs can be in the dead zone
snores as deep as the grand canyon
but when daddy opens the frig
they are as awake as a grumpy newborn
hypervigilant, they wait to hear the pop
they move toward t...
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Categories:
frig, dog,
Form: Free verse
Celebrating White Supremacy
...("Winter Tree", 2023, original encaustic)
Celebrating White Supremacy
As the world turns….
ever faster and more wobblier
it’s hard to go a day
without hearing some reference to ‘Whit...
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Categories:
frig, appreciation, humanity, humor, irony,
Form: Narrative
Hinge people
...Have you ever felt like a hinge?
Holding two things together
while knowing they will soon separate,
and then hopefully reunite.
I think about this when I open the frig.
I often leave the door...
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Categories:
frig, character, emotions, encouraging, humor,
Form: Free verse
Halloween Abcedarian 2023
...amber skies announce autumn
black bats and black cats
costumes line the sidewalks
Dracula climbs out of his crypt
elves, faeries and brownies dance the streets
Freaks are getting on their freak
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Categories:
frig, word play,
Form: Abecedarian
The Smell of Fear - Collaboration
...Alien talk I can’t understand
A Pifflewig performed a handstand
He verbalised through his ass
Gross putrid wind he did pass
Like many blokes throughout the land!
I farted, perhaps ...
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Categories:
frig, humorous, space,
Form: Limerick
Life's Happy Play
...What earth shattering things have I got to say
The world's still round, same stuff each day
Happy as a pig
So what the frig
Why can't everybody perform in life's happy play...
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Categories:
frig, joy,
Form: Limerick
How Can You Live With These Creatures
...there were yellow cats in Willow's sinks, gray cats on the stairs
Cats in the kitchen, next to the frig, you were caught unawares
kittens in the pantry, an old gray tom on the stove.
they spilled ...
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Categories:
frig, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Something About This Chick
...There was something special about the lost chick I found yesterday.
Her brown eyes reminded me of a human’s eyes but whose?
I collected her from the alley and brought her home to feed.
She wanted ...
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Categories:
frig, animal,
Form: Free verse
Afraid of Pineapple Kitchen Monster
...I cannot use my kitchen, I have too much fear.
What is going on? I asked my auntie dear.
There is a tiny pineapple monster in there under the frig.
She is nutty again, said my other auntie named M...
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Categories:
frig, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Fun Poem To Write Three
...Where did you get that oatmeal cookie I asked Jack.
Off the oatmeal cookie tree, we keep it out back.
His mother gave the kitchen counter a tiny whack.
With her old-fashioned apron made from a flo...
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Categories:
frig, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
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