Botox Goldilocks
Goldilocks and the three bears,
The story is a classic.
But one idea came to mind,
What if she was made of plastic?
With lips so swollen
And cheeks so bloated
She was red and shiny
And was very coated.
The bears that came saw the porridge,
They searched and found Goldilocks.
Screaming and fearful,
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Categories:
goldilocks, adventure, animal, books, children,
Form: Rhyme
Is it Goldilocks
The Sassy Squirrel Six stared into their unshared hole
Trying to figure out who was in there was the ultimate goal
What was she doing down there? Who was that thin?
Is it Goldilocks? Is it a doll? Is it a mannequin?
The creature came a bit closer and they scrambled away.
A weird start to their usual nut-gathering day.
Terrified
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Categories:
goldilocks, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Goldilocks the Trespasser
deep in the woods where shadows creep,
where secrets lurk and willows weep,
a girl in rags with locks of gold
walked paths where none but ghosts grew old.
a house she found--quaint, warm, and neat,
with honeyed air and scents so sweet,
but locked doors made her fingers twitch--
what’s theft to those who dare be rich?
inside she stepped, no fear,
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Categories:
goldilocks, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Goldilocks Zone
Goldilocks Zone
Perfect position
Just enough water
Just far enough from the sun
Just enough light
Just enough dark
Just enough land mass
Just enough Van Allen Belt
Just enough ozone
Too close and it would be too hot
Too far and it would be too cold
Too close and too much radiation
Too far and not enough
Too close and no water
Too far and it would be
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Categories:
goldilocks, creation,
Form: Free verse
My Goldilocks Pill Jar
The weight I carried has settled,
not vanished, but pinned in place -
a fragile truce between my mind
and the pills I swallow, trembling.
They don’t call it a cure,
and I don’t ask for one;
but it’s enough to feel the unraveling slow.
I feel the world bleed into softer shapes,
colours no longer clawing at my skin,
the air no longer
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Categories:
goldilocks, anxiety, depression, emotions, mental
Form: Free verse
It's All in Your POV
How would you feel,
If you went home today
To find a strange creature
Had entered your cave
While you were away?
How would you feel,
If the door to your cave
Had been kicked in by a kid
Who just could not behave?
Would you rumble and roar
Or just rant and rave?
You would you feel,
If you looked in your bed
To find sleeping
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Categories:
goldilocks, analogy, child, feelings, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Rest of Goldilocks
Goldilocks was found lying in bed
at a house she broke into
they say she jumped out the window-
her fear of the bears was so great
but I know Goldilocks-
she was my best friend in middle school
and my next-door neighbor.
I offered her oatmeal- she fainted
I invited her for a sleepover- she screamed
we went to the zoo- she
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Categories:
goldilocks, animal, best friend, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Centre Ground
She went for the bowl in the middle
Which sorted today’s lunchtime riddle
Then she rested her head
In a medium bed
Till three hungry bears made her tiddle
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Categories:
goldilocks, humorous,
Form: Limerick
FROM GOLDILOCKS ZONE
From Goldilocks Zone of some distant star
Microscopic creatures evolve and spread.
These tardigrades travel across cosmos.
In the ice of comets they hitch a ride
Surviving aeons in a dormant state,
Unti they then strike the earth’s atmosphere.
The ice melts and these creatures then appear
And set up colonies where they may thrive.
These microscopic forms have come across
Many
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Categories:
goldilocks, earth, science fiction, universe,
Form: Blank verse
Discovering Goldilocks
He discovered a little girl lying in his bed.
Shh! He told his wife. She is sleeping like the dead.
Baby bear wanted to sneak a peek at the human too.
Look said Mama Bear. What a cute tiny shoe!
Goldilocks woke up and was startled to see
Three grizzly bears winking at her, smiling with glee.
She had no idea
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Categories:
goldilocks, books,
Form: Rhyme
Refurbished Children's Stories: Goldilocks, But Just Barely
Not much about Goldilocks is really well known,
Except she liked to hang out in the woods all alone.
Of other customs and habits we have just a splintering:
She was whiney, persnickety,
And obviously skillful at breaking and entering.
No deadbolt or burglar alarm could defy her.
A common criminal, then, is how history should try her.
The three bears, that
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Categories:
goldilocks, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Grasping For Goldilocks
Burning off the excess
Things got out of line
Everything is golden
Until it loses its shine
Pendulum constantly swinging
Quick to overreact
Impermanence around the corner
Grasping for what is fact
Need to seek balance
Stand on stable ground
Know things will settle
What was lost will be found
The scale evens out
Water finds its level
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Categories:
goldilocks, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Poor Goldilocks
Angie,
You didn't like the song
Dude played for you
'cause you think it's about a junkie
I was good to you
For nothing
Really
No love interest
No taking advantage
Just a starving artist
Living in your car
I tried to help
Just a human being
Helping another human being
And you helped yourself
To everything
Steaks, tequila, my good whiskey
Even slept in my bed
(After trashing your room)
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Categories:
goldilocks, addiction, best friend, irony,
Form: Free verse
Goldilocks and the Free Beers
The cabin was stood there, its door was ajar
The owners were out but they couldn’t be far
She was so thirsty she needed a drink
Did she wait outside... well what do you think
She pushed on the door, ‘Is there anyone there’
I’m just a wee girl who has long golden hair
She thought to herself there is nobody
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Categories:
goldilocks, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Goldilocks Now
But, my friend said, if Goldilocks was alive today her story would be different:
we’re just so used to the fairy tale message, the simplified right and wrong of it.
Women today are too afraid to walk the streets at night,
let alone enter a house with three grizzlies hidden out of sight.
And if a girl is attacked
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Categories:
goldilocks, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
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