Walnut and Peanut
...When, once, a peanut and a walnut met,
as covered by the Iowa Gazette,
the question good folks asked was whether
these two nuts could go together.
As a kitchen cook, I must insist -
these two nu...
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Categories:
gazette, food, silly,
Form: Rhyme
It Is To Be
...the choir chimed in
a chorus of rebuke
or stones we'd hurl
abusing the adulteress's skin
shoot your pocket rocks
passing judgment comes down
like diluvial rains splashing
gory-red upon yo...
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Categories:
gazette, faith, fate, hope, jesus,
Form: List
A Disregard For Precious Life
...I light up another cigarette,
its smoke turns into puffs...
then they form small clouds':
a skeleton drawn in the gazette.
It's a disregard for this precious life,
consider myself worthless an...
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Categories:
gazette, anger, anxiety, death, depression,
Form: Ballad
Footles for the Birds
...Let the Fowls Go
Release
three geese
Fowl Abuse
I struck
my duck
Jokester Duck
Chuckling
Duckling
Crazy Bird Resort
The loon
Lagoon
Bird Mystery Novel
Who slew
Cuckoo?...
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Categories:
gazette, bird,
Form: Footle
PUBLIC MAIL
...
As I was reading Nyasatimes
Gazette on line
On January 10th , 2024
I saw the name
of Yao Kingdom Foundation
Portrayed badly
As written," differences have emerged
in the once United
Y...
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Categories:
gazette, africa, history, society,
Form: Free verse
The Tram
...Tram has, recently, become my favorite travel mode,
At the young and old, whom I come across, I smile gently;
Each, in their world, like flies and bees, and beasts has their own code,
Women, gossi...
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Categories:
gazette, life, travel,
Form: Sonnet
Lost Subterranean City
...lost subterranean city of the Grand Canyon
Fact, legend, Hopi story or cover-up?
In 1909 Arizona Gazette printed the story
A secret underground citadel a mile down
discovered by G E Kinkaid, a re...
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Categories:
gazette, travel,
Form: Narrative
Editor
...Editor edits
News Gazette called " Elephant "
In Helen ville.
Written for poetry contest sponsored
...
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Categories:
gazette, imagery, write,
Form: Haiku
Forest Glade
...
Twig twists intersect then spread victory
Receptors sprout cat waving paws
Fold fruit bowl foliage, branch tributary
Lump eye timber columns support
...
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Categories:
gazette, appreciation, environment, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Personal Productivity Measured Courtesy
...Personal productivity measured courtesy...
Unspecified number of hours spent
many yesterdays ago since March 6th, 2021
reading (cover to cover) Pennsylvania Gazette
March/April 2021 issue.
P...
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Categories:
gazette, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Village Gazette
...Nor ahead of
Nor behind the times ~
The bell-tower floats her chimes...
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Categories:
gazette, beauty, life, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Personal Productivity Measured Courtesy
...Personal productivity measured courtesy...
Unspecified number of hours spent
yesterday March 6th, 2021
reading (cover to cover) Pennsylvania Gazette
March/April 2021 issue.
Proud papa highly...
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Categories:
gazette, 12th grade, blue, character,
Form: Rhyme
The Muse, In My Quill
...The Muse, In My Quill
I hadn't realized my penning going on
Before the ink ran dry of my Quill.
If I had just started with my array,
For these words that I had written.
May have been o...
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Categories:
gazette, character, humorous, inspiration, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Righteous
...Righteous
by Michael R. Burch
Come to me tonight
in the twilight, O, and the full moon rising,
spectral and ancient, will mutter a prayer.
Gather your hair
and pin it up, knowing
th...
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Categories:
gazette, desire, love, moon, passion,
Form: Verse
Writing An Acrostic--
...Writing An Acrostic
Warm Warm spell imply spells written represent secrets on paper, tablet, and or stone.
Royal Royal favours recommend favours lead beacons wavered under cov...
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Categories:
gazette, allusion, analogy, word play,
Form: Acrostic
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