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Gopher Poems - Poems about Gopher

Premium Member Go For It
... If a gopher sees its shadow Winter's here to stay More accurate than any weatherman Even gets it right for yesterday!......

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Categories: gopher, animal, silly, weather, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Looking for Keys At Gotta-Go Time
... gosh, look at the time! he's gotta go immediately! wherever he's headed punctuality is a must, he can't just go yet... his mind in utter disarray, repeatedly screaming... "where'......

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Categories: gopher, time,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Ma, Pet Assassin
...Chubs is gravely flat. We remove our hats. Her wheel deflated him— Chubs, my cuddly cat. Flounder is lying flat, ambling on his back. Her croutons choked him— Flounder, my friendly catfish. ......

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Categories: gopher, animal, humor, repetition,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member NIGHT HIKE
... We took a guided hike through a park last night…a beautiful natural preserve. and in the dark it is amazing…all the things we could observe. As the crickets serenaded us…at an alligator on the ......

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Categories: gopher, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Dirt Road
...We built this house On a dirt road at the edge of the forest And between two coyotes dens So it’s hard to know if the howling at night Is sibling rivalry or civil war Serenade or sacrifice Th......

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Categories: gopher, nature,
Form: Free verse



Two Limericks For Saint Patrick's Day
...I. I strolled through a field of clovers Looking each one of them over When I found that fourth leaf All my joy turned to grief When my prize was snatched by a gopher. II. Last ni......

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Categories: gopher, hilarious, humor, humorous, march,
Form: Limerick
The Romantic View
... Honeysuckle breathes in the shallow wind, Life's lapel, with a side of ground scouting gopher. Great rusted machines peak the interest of the flower children who blossom in t......

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Categories: gopher, angel,
Form: Free verse
It Raced Red Seamed Leathered
...It Raced Red Seamed Weathered, Moist Dry Weathered, Down My Track! A Best In My Steps From The Box, I Sent It, Past The ......

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Categories: gopher, appreciation,
Form: Ballad
Close Shave
...Breaking points are reached when you are gliding just is as smooth as silk. Acceptable risks go rogue, easy-street gets bumpy; beware then for there are gopher holes, shoals of piranha app......

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Categories: gopher, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gopher Digs To China
...Gopher decided he would dig to China, and so he did. He began to charge customers, who wanted to travel far away. It’s a joke some said, a gimmick, a tease, a kid. So, they did not get to venture ......

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Categories: gopher, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Noah
...Man begat man and giants walked, among mighty men a righteous dearth. And to each took them wives that they bear and multiply the earth Their wickedness vexed The Lord, “I will destr......

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Categories: gopher, bible, christian,
Form: Narrative
Beijing Guest List
...Anida Mann & Baron Ready April Showers & Wade Rivers Bertha Saylor & Abel Crews Bunny Bunns & Wilt Dailey Burl E Pecker & Phyllis Upman Candy Cane & Hedon Succor Chastity B. Lowe & Noah Hoare ......

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Categories: gopher, word play,
Form: List
Premium Member Fishercats
...Sun’s up Neighborhood cats Have resumed their posts In my yard full of holes Arms folded, ever alert Occasionally arching, creeping And even springing At giggling gopher ghosts The felines r......

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Categories: gopher, animal, cat, jobs, life,
Form: Free verse
City Water
...Risen From the springtime flooding along South MLK A sh#t-skinned slimy pipe Pops half way up from a grimy hole Like a gopher molded from iron ore Neck and head periscoping left then right Ti......

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Categories: gopher, cancer, children, city, community,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Town Gossip Gets It Wrong Again
...There is a gopher hiding in the gooseberry bushes, Kaie, the town gossip told me. I looked hard. Got prickled by the bush’s thorns too. Got bloody. Hey! Someone said. It was a snappily dressed ......

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Categories: gopher, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Narrative

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