proud to be an american in jest
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proud to be an american (in jest)
i saw the mailman steal my letter
i saw the tax man steal my dime
just when i thought things were better
i saw the preacher steal my time
i...
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Categories:
gunny, america, humor, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Mushroom Speak
...I want to taste the new ruffled orange mushrooms Lilly Watt said.
they are known as “chicken of the woods” on oak trees not dead.
shaggy ink caps were jealous, as were bioluminescent blues.
faerie...
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Categories:
gunny, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
August
...The summer sun scorches flower and grass,
dust has filled up every cranny and crack.
The humidity has climbed near the top,
it’s hotter’n two cats in a gunny sack.
The dog’s under the porch wit...
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Categories:
gunny, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Noodlin'
...With the hot summer sun beating down,
leaving blisters on our necks and back.
Walking through those swift murky currents,
just you‘n me, and a gunny sack.
Dipping our heads below the surface,
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Categories:
gunny, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Twas the Night Before Christmas
...Twas the night before Christmas I went shopping suits,
As shoes looked rat-eaten, needed also warm boots;
Sales girls, in malls displayed suits in variety,
Blown up cost and lean purse grew my anx...
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Categories:
gunny, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
A Bookstore Workers Creed
...Working behind the counter of a bookstore I have a chance to look…
to browse among our shelves and find the oldest books
I love the feel of them in my hands, to gently turn their pages and what’s...
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Categories:
gunny, books,
Form: Rhyme
Bard Pablo Birthday's Song
...What, in your own mind, you do think you lack,
Within thy sensational loneliness--
Truly energize luck and got your back,
To promote thy risk in times, coziness.
Then each and every of your ...
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Categories:
gunny, 1st grade, africa, age,
Form: Sonnet
The Red Letter
...There are many kinds of wars some make you die some make you cry
when your far away suffused in gunpowder, you learn to live and lie
A red letter day arrived, their baby was born blue, cold and...
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Categories:
gunny, war,
Form: Rhyme
Confident She
...Her confidence introduced her by walking into every room first.
Wearing lipstick and eye shadow like Barbra Streisand’s from the sixties.
It would have looked ridiculous on all the rest of us.
We ...
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Categories:
gunny, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Firearms For Sale
...Firearms for sale
Come and get them now.
Our rifles are fine
Our shotguns are a wow!
So you can’t come by today, Chet?
That’s okay. Buy them on the Internet.
How much easier can it be?
So ma...
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Categories:
gunny, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
If Ever I Had To Have a Country Victim of Pedophily Lxxxv-85
...If ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily-LXXXV
(Note : Fresh disclosures from the Catholic Church on the subject
made public by protesting Mothers of infants victims of pedophily
a...
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Categories:
gunny, anti bullying, bangla, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Conceit
...Sam walks like an ox with his gunny-box,
Naughty children count the holes in his crocs.
Some say there are ten large spots,
Others say they're like gun-shots.
Sam thinks they are praising his oxe...
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Categories:
gunny, nursery rhyme,
Form: Limerick
Man and Wife
...MAN
My eyes are puffed and wrinkled
And I have a triple chin.
My hair, with grey, is sprinkled
And, in parts, has grown quite thin.
My stomach is extending
And where once was a six pack
Ther...
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Categories:
gunny, age, husband, marriage, wife,
Form: Quatrain
Rock Formations In the Desert
...The monks were frozen in place
and in time, in a barren field
The countryside offered them nothing
They seemed desolate and lonely
Were they remnants of families?
They are clustered like that
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Categories:
gunny, nature,
Form: Free verse
Westward
...Wagons packed, gunny sacked
Wheat flour, beans, preserves
Wild nature sojourning
Worn axles, oxen, hea...
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Categories:
gunny, adventure, america, dream, environment,
Form: Pleiades
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