The Octopus and the Gerbil
...The octopus sometimes forgets
Its suckers when gerbils it pets.
It sticks to its arm,
Then falls, to some harm,
Which both of them deeply regrets.
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Categories:
gerbils, animal, caregiving, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Snow That Flurried Like Chatting Kangaroos
...The Snow that Flurried like Chatting Kangaroos
Ramah Prince was thinking about Suhail G Faizal again. Suhail G was a remarkable rover with pretty hair and wide lips.
Ramah walked over to the wind...
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Categories:
gerbils, 7th grade, absence, africa,
Form: Rhyme
Pack Up We Are Moving
...My husband comes in and says “Pack up! We are moving!”
It is a game that he plays, frequently, for he usually hates someone.
I am thrilled to death of course, so I begin dancing and grooving.
Pack...
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Categories:
gerbils, woman, women,
Form: Rhyme
If You Think You Are So Smart
...My child came home from kindergarten and said
“My teacher Mrs. Ballywack is so NICE!”
I was amazed; I had not heard anything good about the woman.
“She said, Tracy Krutsinger, if you think you are...
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Categories:
gerbils, child, school, teacher,
Form: Prose Poetry
Chilling Out
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Some days, it's best to keep still!
One needs to get some rest.
And abuse of your time might make
you quite ill.
Get off-line, enjoy your time on earth,
It is, after all, the very ...
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Categories:
gerbils, poets,
Form: I do not know?
A Pet For Me
...The owl is wise
The fox clever
The burro stubborn
The puppy dog never
Cats meow
Snakes hiss
Cows moo
Goldfish kiss
Kangas jump
Eagles soar
Bunnies hop
A walrus snores
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Categories:
gerbils, animal, fish, me, pets,
Form: Light Verse
My Super Power
...My flexibility has been recorded by practically no one
Yet it is my greatest, most brilliant, terrific superpower.
I have moved thirty-seven times, and have had twenty-eight jobs.
Along for the ri...
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Categories:
gerbils, me,
Form: Free verse
Heart Blessings
..."There are too many to count in just one day, so let me poetize it this way"
A thousand dreams have sailed away a thousand more have sailed me home, and
Bartering...
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Categories:
gerbils, assonance,
Form: Abecedarian
Animal House
...ANIMAL HOUSE
Oh, give me a home
Where the beasties roam
Where dogs on the couches play
Where the ...
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Categories:
gerbils, animal, cat, dog, home,
Form: Rhyme
Gerbils Are Best Pets
...gerbils have the best
kidneys, less waste, odorless
clean, best at thumping
2019 September 18...
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Categories:
gerbils, animal,
Form: Haiku
Sweetly Full Pantry
...And so it begins … my crew will over treat themselves to ample chocolate for I have just stuffed our pantry sweetly-full again:
No one will know why the stocked, offered sweets, meant t...
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Categories:
gerbils, anxiety, candy, chocolate, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Gerbils Poem
...Gerbils poem
Two black eyes
Peep out of the bedding
A quivering nose
And not much more
A tail as thick
As a bit of string
It is a gerbil
Is it not?
Two blue eyes
Look into my bedding
A...
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Categories:
gerbils, animal,
Form: Name
Ten Years
...(:) (:) (: ) (:)
Mommie, what did you think when I was born
Thought you most stunning sight eyes could adore
To think you were mine was beyond belief
Knowing you were healthy was sweet relief
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Categories:
gerbils, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Miscellaneous Page Diagram
...A ship in a dip is a duplicate of a massive six ton truck echoing at nine miles an hour in a tunnel. Oh traffic rather stoic today. But trafficking is often great fun for gerbils weighing in at over ...
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Categories:
gerbils, beauty,
Form: I do not know?
The Two Gerbils and the Wheel
...This is a story of sharing. This is a story of caring for one another and placing other's needs above our own.
Once upon a time there were two gerbils in a gerbil cage. One gerbil said to the oth...
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Categories:
gerbils, animal, character, environment, children,
Form: Narrative
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