Juneberry
...High Fives for June 6-10-25
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Juneberry
garden chameleon
green leaves turn red then purple
nicknamed sugarplum
berries of blue in clusters
hedge...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, animal, fruit, fun, summer,
Form: Tanka
Flophouse
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Portraits of hedgehogs on his grimy tiled walls
Pete did for good taste what heat does for snow balls
Though a weird kind of charm lay on his carpeted floor
Not hed...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, home, horror, insect, kiss,
Form: Couplet
Jill and Lucille
...Jill and Lucille are two very hungry slugs
They often dine out at their local garden food hubs.
Lettuce, flowers, fruits, sunflowers and beans
These are a few choices from these veggie canteens.
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Categories:
hedgehogs, friend, nature, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Tenrecs of Madagascar
...Madagascar is home to the weird
strange inhabitants found nowhere else
on this planet or thousands of others
tenrecs scatter themselves among the vegetation
They have a reputation for being str...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, animal,
Form: Free verse
Festive Season?
...The leaves
From the trees
They fell
It was that time of year
Nature looked unwell
The sun disappeared
And out came the rain
Happiness vacated
What’s left of the brain
Festive season
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Categories:
hedgehogs, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Santa Badger was a Pushover
...Santa Badger can handle it Mrs. Badger said.
She was in charge, and this is not in my head.
I have seen the two together, she gives him no leeway.
He cringes from her directions by the end of thei...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Skin They're In
...Who says that the beasts can’t have valentines
Each of them loves in fur, feathers or spines
Positions may vary
But “the missionary”
Is surely for hedgehogs and porcupines...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, animal, love,
Form: Limerick
These people they are not worth much
...These people, they’re not worth much,
They think they are more liquid than water,
They shine before those who envy them,
They wear beautiful expensive watches,
These people think they’re better t...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, appreciation, people,
Form: Free verse
A Murder of Crows
...A murder of crows
A crowd of pigeons
A mob of mealworms
Hedgehogs? A smidgen
A swarm of swans
A drove of ducks
A throng of turkeys
This horde is full of un-lucks...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Dance of Jacomo Frostus
...Twas the end of year when nights grow dark
And stars twinkle in midnight sky.
The earth was asleep and trees leaflessly slumbered,
Under the hedges sheltered small creatures and birds
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Categories:
hedgehogs, dance, environment, mystery, seasons,
Form: Lyric
One Shoe
...Winter has left one empty shoe
upon the doorstep.
Around that footless mouth
tulips grow
despite the muscular winds
and a thin sunshine.
The crisscrossing of the seasons
does not confuse the...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Am At Wonderland
...I’m daydreaming, I abandon the mundane
And enter a world that is beyond my brain
Where fairytale castles stand tall and grand
And the wonderland is a fertile land
With Alice by my side, I trave...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, 12th grade, best friend,
Form: Narrative
I Am At Wonderland
...I’m daydreaming, I abandon the mundane
And enter a world that is beyond my brain
Where fairytale castles stand tall and grand
And the wonderland is a fertile land
With Alice by my side, I trave...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, 12th grade, best friend,
Form: Narrative
The Loud Scary Digger Machine
...Discussing the loud scary digger machine
Because it is terrifying their children
Badger takes the helm; he stirs them up
Rabbits and hedgehogs are slow to get hot
Squirrel is hopping around like ...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Digging For Dandelions
...Recalled sounds take you back to an old land
to a home you no longer need.
Like the soft snuffle of hedgehogs on the lawn
on a summer evening.
Here there are larger less harmless spiny beasts,
h...
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Categories:
hedgehogs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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