Stimulation
...
Hot coffee
black coffee
really has the means
when I sup but half a cup
to make me feel
quite full of beans
only one requirement tho'
no decaf if you please
and altho' born in Kenya
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Categories:
full of beans, drink, humorous, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Wellness
...The glossy brochure made a promise,
To those maybe living with strife,
That by moving to their Senior Eden,
You’d find “wellness” the way of your life.
Though perhaps their apartments are lovel...
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Categories:
full of beans, language,
Form: Rhyme
Full of Beans
...What happens when the only light you see
Is the mainstream media’s gaslight?
It’s Plato’s Cave all over again
Except the fire throwing shadows now
Is an official gaslight torch.
Ironic tho’ give...
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Categories:
full of beans, political, society,
Form: Narrative
Children along the river
...We played a game amongst twisted trees
Then studied the decaying river bank
And as we crouched down onto our knees
Our paper boats sailed away and sank
We rolled around the blades of grass
So...
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Categories:
full of beans, children, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Come On Over Saturday Night
...Some fried chicken and fried potatoes,
pot full of beans, and sliced tomatoes.
I hear catfish sizzling in hot oil,
and some fresh picked corn waiting to boil.
Old folks sit at the big oak table...
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Categories:
full of beans, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A New Language
...The new language
It was late August, on a glaringly hot day, when I felt dizzy
went to sit on a gigantic carob tree full of beans on thick leaves
to sit in its cooling shade; it was pitch dark ...
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Categories:
full of beans, abuse, anger, best friend,
Form: Blank verse
Still Full of Beans
...Feel like singing a happy song
And if you'll allow me to bend your ear
I don't mean literally of course
That could be physically quite painful
At my age, my mind is still clicking along...
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Categories:
full of beans, gender,
Form: Rhyme
Age Takes It's Toll
...How do we adjust to changes in the body
As age takes it's toll through the years
There's an amazing transformation at each stage
Quite regular like that of my peers
Although not the cas...
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Categories:
full of beans, age,
Form: Rhyme
Youth
...A youthful face, but no brains:
Time the deceiver – I think back,
to all I thought I knew that it has
taken me a lifetime to unlearn: Oh
the labyrinths the spirit travels!~till
at last realizi...
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Categories:
full of beans, christian, funny, humorous, introspection,
Form: Free verse
My Memory Bank
...My memory bank is outta funds
Someone musta robbed me in the night
Think my name's either Jack or Charlie
Can't remember which one is right
Had to look on my driver's license
To determine if I...
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Categories:
full of beans, memory,
Form: Rhyme
My Caffeine Is Full of Beans
...I've much to be grateful for
mostly it would be the printing press
millions of books came from it
reading a book needs no change of dress
You just pick up one of your choice
sit down with a cu...
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Categories:
full of beans, books, drink, words,
Form: Rhyme
In the Wild, Far From My Home
...Ain't it wild the things that have passed?
The things we thought would change,
the things we thought weren't gonna last?
(remember picnics on the park grass?
that was awesome)
Movies with fr...
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Categories:
full of beans, absence, change, endurance, imagination,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Myth Treated
...Mr. Myth is not treated right
No one believes Him
Stories of a puppets nose growing long
Was a lie but Walt had to tell it
Whimsical tales of fairy dust and
Teeth replaced with money
Is just ...
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Categories:
full of beans, fairy, myth,
Form: Free verse
Jelly Belly
...POEM "JELLY BELLY" by martin gedge
A jar full of jelly and a bag full of beans
in multiples of colors in a rainbow of dreams
a taste that you savor in the juicy of a jam
bursting with the...
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Categories:
full of beans, beautiful, candy, color, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
The Jagger Swagger
...Old Mick has the lips of a bragger
And wiggles his hips with a swagger.
He jumps, full of beans
In black skinny jeans
With hip-shaking destined to stagger!
Old ladies enjoy the distraction
Of...
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Categories:
full of beans, humor, old,
Form: Limerick
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