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Gophers Poems - Poems about Gophers

Premium MemberThe Art of the DOGE DO-D-GE

...DOGE DO(D)GE is a game:
Accepting praise - never blame.
It's a dodge all right!

DO(D)GE shifts Left - then Right;
Disruptive through winds of change.
It's a dodge all right!

DO(D)GE bans br...
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Categories: gophers, abuse, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberBeau my Avid Digger

...By the time I get outside my dogs have disappeared
I do some violent tapping with my ink pen against a chair
Beau, the baby, comes running back to see what it is
He licks my knees; he always licks...
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Categories: gophers, dog,
Form: Free verse



A Wriggle In Time

...There once were a couple of worms 
Who perished; their very last squirms 
Such a long time ago -
46,000 years, so you’ll know -
Which a study by science confirms.

They were trapped in a perman...
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Categories: gophers, science,
Form: Limerick

All Stars

...Don’t you see the skip of my jolly heels,
skipping about the globe while planting stars?
Ask then from mother earth what joy she feels
When my rubber sole and her corners spar.

In offices, they...
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Categories: gophers, beauty, celebration, childhood, clothes,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberScience Is Alert

...PopularLiveScienceAlertTechDaily
ancient Martian microbes digest Trojan Asteroids
daily mail lands on the Moon
online tsunamis tracked by harmful UFO videos
2022: the Light-Year of the Gre...
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Categories: gophers, humorous, nonsense, satire, science,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLiving Near

...Living Near

In the meadow of tomorrow, 
in the land of today, 
I see the truth of all past...
We are as one, 
balanced and unbalanced. 

The tall grass is green, 
and smells of flowers,
an...
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Categories: gophers, america, angel, endurance, journey,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMurder In the Tunnel-

...I have a problem;
these animals keep digging
mammals moles, gophers

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hole digging tunnels
Oh! Burrowers where’s your den
you’re not our friend

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small animals holes
moles, voles, ra...
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Categories: gophers, adventure, analogy, animal, anxiety,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberBeyond Inspiration Wall

...A faerie village is a marvelous place to be.
If you ever find yourself petite and small.
Pure of heart travelers will discover an oak tree.
Beyond the west side of inspiration wall.

An ethereal...
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Categories: gophers, fairy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHeart 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: gophers, assonance,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium MemberLooking At Those Cute Cuddly Bunnies

...'Bunnies!', 'Yes, bunnies!'
a lonely pooch
sniffing the mound of dirt
Sniff, sniff flung the Yorkie
'Bunnies!', 'Yes, bunnies!'
'Bunnies!' curl up cute and cuddly
while across the wa...
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Categories: gophers, adventure, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn the Sixth Day

...On the Sixth Day

On the sixth day God created the animals
Oh what fun creating the animals;
Rolled up each sleeve to create all the animals
On the sixth day.

God made cats and dogs and hogs ...
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Categories: gophers, animal, bird, creation, fish,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberThe Phone Rings At 3 a M At the Doorly Zoo- -

...At the Doorly Zoo a well-trained guerrilla waves
It’s 3:00 am
Gorilla flung his manure like a combat soldier in guerrilla warfare
No one but the ground keepers are there, MAN DOES IT SM...
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Categories: gophers, analogy, animal, corruption, environment,
Form: Free verse

I'Ll Be Your Joker

...7/20/19

"I'll be your Joker"


Still a registered voter
Signed up to be an organ donor
And finally became a car owner

I rarely use a controller
When it's time, I'll man up and buy a strol...
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Categories: gophers, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme

Sea of Green

...One spring morn

A boat set sail

Sailing away

On a sea of green

All the flowers

Were on board

Traveling forth

New sights to see

All the snails

Were too slow

Missed the bo...
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Categories: gophers, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEpochal Antics

...In an epoch and era far removed from ours,
  Dwelt two golden gophers on the planet Mars.

Asked one of the other, while hugging his interplanetary car,
  Saw you not that adorable smooching star...
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Categories: gophers, future, humorous, planet, space,
Form: Light Verse

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