Cheese Wars
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I followed milky and mouldy scents,
down cobbled and narrow paths,
only to see it riddled with rats,
feasting on Feta and Camembert,
whilst the wine sipping Uppers prepared to
clash against th...
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Categories:
gobblers, allusion, conflict, society,
Form: Free verse
Thanksgiving Refuge
...Two weeks before Thanksgiving, I got a jolt,
I was driving my old bucket of nuts and bolts,
along the country road on a chilly autumn day,
Saw wild turkeys walking, they'd be ambling awhile,
I sl...
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Categories:
gobblers, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Gobble, Gobble Turkey
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I was thinking - why do we eat turkey ?
The history of it is just quirky,
eat veggie pizza, why not;
home made- from the oven hot,
why not forget about gobblers perky !
Oh, tu...
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Categories:
gobblers, thanksgiving,
Form: Limerick
Wild Turkeys
...Gobblers a gobbling
under the oak trees old boughs
acorns all for free...
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Categories:
gobblers, animal, nature,
Form: Haiku
Ground Hog Day 2021
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Ground Hog Day 2021
Long Range Forecast
Haiku: by Tom
February 2 2021
Today's forecast comes
from Gobblers knob near Pittsburgh.
Phil saw his shadow.
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Categories:
gobblers, weather,
Form: Haiku
Tide and Time
...Icy shards reflect what is seen
but not what is meant to be
I will wait not on tomorrow
as the temples begin to grey
time moves along but not alone
it has hope, it has pe...
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Categories:
gobblers, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Life Giving Lake
...Life-giving blue lake filled almost to rim
Brings beauty and delight to ones full of dreams
Gives plentiful to migrated Canadian geese
Offers cozy homes to duck families
Meditating Cranes s...
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Categories:
gobblers, appreciation, beauty, earth, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Was Phil Tailgating Last Night
...“Guten Morgen”… or should I say “Good Morning”…
This is Punxsutawney Phil
Hailing you from Gobblers Knob
That’s my tiny hill!
Today, I am feeling like such a lucky ground hog…
I know that some...
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Categories:
gobblers, fantasy, football, funny, imagery,
Form: Free verse
A Night On the Town
...A Night On The Town
While searching for a book, one that I hadn’t yet read
I stumbled upon a critter and this is what he said:
Although the library is quite cozy and nice;
Could you fancy a n...
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Categories:
gobblers, humor,
Form: Light Verse
A Wedding Vow
...Corpulent cottagers clapping like clowns
a fat Friday festival, gobblers and gowns.
Merry mad munchers of muffins and mirth
do-si-do dumbly, eaters of earth.
Champagne sugar shoved in a shoe
If love ...
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Categories:
gobblers, devotion, family, happiness, husband,
Form: Alliteration
Wild Kissing Turkeys of the Serengeti
...If you should ever come to visit me
I want you to be ready,
For the view that I have right outside my room
of the plains of the Serengeti.
From my window I can view
some of nature’s most exotic crea...
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Categories:
gobblers, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Fighting Chance
...gobblers preen and prance,
vying for the female's glance,
for a fighting chance....
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Categories:
gobblers, animals, life, nature,
Form: Haiku