Chasing the Gray
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Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
or a broken spool in...
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Categories:
gosling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
One Crazy Dream
...A big dog is pooping out on my lawn.
One I hate – Bill Gates – appears from nowhere.
He scoops up the poop and places it on
a stick as he views me in my underwear.
He chases me, scaring me with...
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Categories:
gosling, dream, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Mother Goose Grows Up
...Mother Goose is old
Her nest has got cold
Her goslings have grown
They have nests of their own
Now this old Goose is alone
Goosey Goosey Gander
Decided to wander
Some time ago
He met a Goos...
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Categories:
gosling, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
...Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous. Such was the time recently as I was returning from a friend’s h...
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Categories:
gosling, bird, family,
Form: Metrical Tale
My Girl Is My World
...If the day gone without a memory
My heart won’t skip from you.
So don’t worry.
You look like an angel
Beauty doesn’t get pale.
Your sweet voice like a gel
It will stick with me forever my love....
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Categories:
gosling, boy, girl, love, women,
Form: I do not know?
Beep-Beep
...A winged horse, a unicorn
glides so effortlessly, airborne
blazing its way in early morn
o'er ears of sun-ripe golden corn
Spying a gosling from its mother torn
This winged horse, our unicor...
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Categories:
gosling, flying, myth, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Gosling
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Bundle of yellow
Waddling behind the gaggle
Gander honks message
Upon the lawn lifeless form
Still, small gosling three weeks old
Days pass sad mood stays
Summer passes...
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Categories:
gosling, nature,
Form: Tanka
Old Jake the Critter Lover-A Parody
...Old Jake lived a mile or so below the falls.
He wasn’t a hermit, or any other sect or sort.
He was just an old man; though always alone.
Well, except for the critters.
They were not remarkable, ...
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Categories:
gosling, parody,
Form: Prose
Abandoned Nest
...Premature gosling, broken from the egg,
gasp for breath in primordial refuse.
Blindly search for your absent mother’s leg;
shiver until death’s caress sets you lose....
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Categories:
gosling, animals, death, nature, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Changeling
...Somewhere hiding in the shadow of mendacity,
the unsightly gosling awaits the storm to subside.
Gathering knowledge and experience to survive,
she is besieged by thoughts about “how to”.
No matte...
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Categories:
gosling, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Complex (For Rg)
...All my mortgage years
This featherless gosling flightless
Kept chickens for peers
Suffering gravity's wretched pain
While dreaming of the southland
Coded in my bones
Like a chicken I circled ...
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Categories:
gosling, education
Form: Verse