When Madness Grins
...When Madness Grins
When madness grins, the mirrors blink,
And all the clocks begin to drink.
Time forgets its careful lines—
And paints the air in crooked signs.
Mice wear monocles to preach...
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Categories:
gumdrop, adventure, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Lollipops And Gumdrops
...All the boys and girls
run to her soft call;
Like a howling wind
is how it beckons,
they cannot resist;
Sweet lollipops
young lips tickle;
Saliva builds
for a gumdrop;
Enduring
the ...
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Categories:
gumdrop, candy, childhood, horror, howl,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Flowerpatch Portals
...The way to a girls heart
seems to be sour candy?
She loves the way it puckers her lips.
She get's talkative, "as if", a Sleeping Beauty.
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Categories:
gumdrop, angel,
Form: Rhyme
I Was Playing Thunderbirds With My Kids and Forgot What Thunderbird 3 Was, So Asked the Lifeguard
...he was unaware
wolf
which was disappointing
never attempt to move or donkey punch
the empire state building
ten years of planning
ten years of shrooms
ended with puppets
and strings like ca...
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Categories:
gumdrop, 8th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Paddy
...Paddy
His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short! He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a wavy wheat co...
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Categories:
gumdrop, dog,
Form: Prose
You Can Be Anyone You Want To Be
...You can be anyone you want to be! The teacher said.
I want to be a marshmallow.
I want to be a frog.
I want to be a daisy.
I want to be a computer.
The teacher stopped the kindergarteners.
Yo...
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Categories:
gumdrop, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Paper Airplane In a Gumdrop Sky
...I was paused at a blood red light,
across from a clapboard church
with a sign
"English services available".
Off to the side I saw a chubby kid
clumsily attempting a cartwheel...
afte...
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Categories:
gumdrop, age,
Form: Free verse
Box Canyon Candy Land
...Box canyon candy land,scrawled upon its walls
the first children's book-illustrated by the ancients~
Glazed by queen frosting and a gingerbread man
A jolly blind man with a gumdrop candle stick
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Categories:
gumdrop, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Little Known Holidays Occurring On February Fifteenth
...Little known holidays occurring on February fifteenth...,
awaiting commercial sponsors to become...
what else...,but hand over fist money makers?
(http://www.holidays-and-
observances.com/februar...
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Categories:
gumdrop, america, appreciation, celebration, february,
Form: Free verse
From Our Perch In the Gnarly Gumdrop Tree
...Greeting the day's offerings, we cat souls
Were watching for scampering voles and moles.
Five vigilant cousins and I, perched up high,
watching the sun rise in the eastern sky.
From our perch ...
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Categories:
gumdrop, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Personification
Candy Castle
...A candy castle so tasty and sweet
made out of the most delectable treats.
Peppermint domes that swirl red and white,
glisten and shine in the the glorious light.
Licorice steeples, to the sky...
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Categories:
gumdrop, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Things You Can Do With a Pen
...In the world of the pen
Anything is possible
No task to daunting
No destination out of reach
From five years old to ninety five
The pen can take us anywhere
The pen can be a source of gr...
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Categories:
gumdrop, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Sanmati My Inspiration
...Sanmati, my messenger, is no more a milksop.
Ardent though is she never will yawp.
Nagging sometimes though in some shop.
Merrily walks in crowd alone till atop.
Amends her needs; tackles one wit...
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Categories:
gumdrop, daughter,
Form: Monorhyme
Once Upon a Time Two Gumdrops Dissolve
...Once upon a time two gumdrops dissolve
once upon a time
there were two gumdrops
she was purple, he was yellow
they were complete opposites
they both worked at a hotel
on a white sandy beach...
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Categories:
gumdrop, allusion, break up, conflict,
Form: Narrative
Sweet Little Gumdrop
...SWEET LITTLE GUMDROP
BY: JONATHAN W. HOPKINS
SWEET LITTLE GUMDROP,WITHOUT ANY SHAME,A CHRISTIAN GIRL FROM HEAVEN CAME. HER FATHER AND MOTHER LOVE HER DEARLY SO, SHE SHINES AS BRIGHT AS ANY RAINBO...
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Categories:
gumdrop, care,
Form: Free verse
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