Thanksgoving Leftovers
...THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS
Thanksgiving has now come and gone,
But we’ve still got turkey by the pound,
So the question now becomes,
What leftover recipes can be found?
We can have turkey tetra...
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Categories:
gizzard, celebration, food, funny, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE
...BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE
Gone are the fishers pulling Lugs; the Gull its gizzard rusty hooked;
and barbed, limit its shelled Limpet supply as blown sand creeps;
smart gulls dunk and d...
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Categories:
gizzard, beach, fish, fishing, sea,
Form: Free verse
Fantasy Poetry - The Wizards Party
...Party invitations popped up in everyone’s hand.
The Wizard invited everyone special in the land.
With magic galore, it was destined to be grand.
He made sure good fairies and elves were ba...
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Categories:
gizzard, dance,
Form: Rhyme
A Weather Wizard
...A weather wizard
delivered a blizzard
to Chicago yesterday
If I weren’t so lily-livered
I’d have torn out his gizzard
~ right away...
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Categories:
gizzard, giggle, snow, violence, weather,
Form: Rhyme
If You'Ve Not Had Fried Gizzard
...
[ to the tune of We’re off to see the Wizard
from the musical Wizard of Oz ]
If you’ve not had fried gizzard,
you’ve never had southern at all.
The same i...
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Categories:
gizzard, food, parody, song,
Form: Lyric
Carol of the Coop
...And this is a sad carol,
Our voice of grief every yuletide,
And our song of plea and prayer,
Now and in every Nativity hereafter.
A partridge, two turtle doves,
Three French hens and four bir...
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Categories:
gizzard, celebration, christian, christmas,
Form: Free verse
No Wizard
...Phineas the Frog
crossed the bog
dancing upon a log
Eyed a seagull
thought 'twas illegal
So he lunched on a water beetle
Fell asleep, next to a lizard
Phineas sure was no wizard
~ All tha...
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Categories:
gizzard, food, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Read Harry Potter If You Want To Know More
...Harry Potter a boy with no real family
Living under his cousin’s stairs, in a closet’s gizzard.
Shunned and shut away as a nambly-pambly
In another world, a known, famous wizard.
Hagrid helps h...
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Categories:
gizzard, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Rented Rooms
...The house is boiled cabbage
goose fat, gizzard stew, and beets.
Windows steam and simmer,
you can write your name on the glass
winter or summer.
If you can live among rutabaga
or borscht; if ...
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Categories:
gizzard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Which Witch
...Witchy Pooh stirred her stew in a cauldron pot
The Pot smelled like hell
The contents stank a lot
Long Tongue of Lizard, Pigs Gizzard
Dogs Tails, and Nose or two
Eye of Cat, Fancy that
I woul...
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Categories:
gizzard, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Gizzard
...Do lizards have gizzards?
Do wizards have craws?
Are parakeets Paracletes
Exempt from laws?
I need to know how
I kneaded dough now
To disavow middlebrow
Hear the cow bow-a-wow....
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Categories:
gizzard, bible, bird, crazy, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
You Don'T Know Jack
...Seeking the local coven’s cavern
a pumpkin rolled into a tavern
he met with a wise wizard
who slit him stem to gizzard
now he’s a gruesome jack ‘o lantern...
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Categories:
gizzard, fun, funny, halloween, holiday,
Form: Limerick
The Carcass
...The Carcass
The best part of the meal,
the bones, the things others throw away.
The wingtips, the neck, the gizzard, the lizard...
a fowl needs to be cooked and stewed.
A bit of broth, a ...
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Categories:
gizzard, fishing, inspirational love, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Gizzard
...Death is when you
Are alive in the shadow
Death is when you can
Sit and sing with your ancestors...
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Categories:
gizzard, death of a friend,
Form: Quatrain
A Curious Bird
...The ostrich is surely a curious bird
Composed of elements rather absurd
Overstuffed body, resting on twigs for legs
Babies hatch in dump nests of 50+ eggs
Weighing as much as three pounds each
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Categories:
gizzard, bird, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
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