Home Ec
...Women of a certain age
Remember, when in school,
Boys did woodwork, girls
Home economics, as a rule.
The boys made houses for the birds –
They sanded, sawed and nailed
While girls both cooke...
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Categories:
home economics, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Forgotten Before I'M Gone
...I don't want to wait 'til I die for people to praise me
Tell me now, Stepmom, how easy it was to raise me
And please, dear brother, do not hold back
Let your friends know all the great...
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Categories:
home economics, humor, me,
Form: Couplet
The Cunning Stranger At Dragon's Lair - a Narrative Poem
...The Cunning Stranger at Dragon's Lair - A Narrative Poem
One day at a comic shop,
I met a man selling cats,
For the money, he wanted to swap,
But I really wanted some bats.
"Got a...
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Categories:
home economics, allusion, analogy, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Narrative
Butter Or Margarine
...It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for many years and...
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Categories:
home economics, education,
Form: Prose
Just Doing My Home Economics
...JUST DOING MY HOME ECONOMICS
In four (4) years another USA presidential election will come, but…
I am not trying to get rid of Donald John Trump.
He seems to have hell to confront.
Isn’...
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Categories:
home economics, america, history, identity, integrity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Dear Neighbors
...Dear neighbors,
I realize we have not met,
other than the guy next door
but that doesn't really count
cause that was just to put up a fence between us,
and I have met Marvelously Mad Max,
beh...
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Categories:
home economics, baptism, health, heart, humor,
Form: Political Verse
My Mom Didn'T Understand
...My Mom didn't understand
why I had quit High School,
it had nothing to do with the kids
I didn't find them to be cruel.
I had a lot of friendships
ones I will never forget,
they h...
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Categories:
home economics, abuse, april,
Form: Rhyme
Granny's Tales
...I love the stories my granny will tell
From a much more simple time
The way she met Papa and in love they fell
She worked at the five and dime
Then there's the one of her driving lesson
Flying...
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Categories:
home economics, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Lovely Patterns
...Old man limping
Walking toy poodle;
Patient devotion
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Old master
Kung-fu sessions;
Evening serenade
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Haul of freshness
Seafood and meat;
Home economics
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Categories:
home economics, beauty,
Form: Haiku
Nameless Lad
...He last had a pal in the 7th grade,
They shared a class from the 1st grade.
And together, for Home Economics,
they were always late.
But the seventh grade showed up, in its
claws it held their u...
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Categories:
home economics, pain, , 12th grade,
Form: Narrative
School Clothes
...The clothes that I'll describe, my age I'll surely reveal.
Recalling clothes worn to school back then now seems surreal!
Not to sport the latest fad, you weren't one of the 'ins'.
Your were a soci...
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Categories:
home economics, funnyclothes,
Form: Rhyme
A Time To "sew"/ a Time To Reap
...The time was 1969, the place- Home-Economics class in junior high. While guys got sent
to “shop,” those of us of the softer sex learned culinary skills. I loved those days when the
room was fille...
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Categories:
home economics, education, nostalgiatime, high school,
Form: Bio
Last Bell.....
...Man, I remember the thrumming of that last bell of the school year.....
Like a prisoner being furloughed into the warm sun, buzzing of grasshoppers.
Field stickers burrowing into your ankles, joyfu...
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Categories:
home economics, adventure, childhood, funny, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Home Economics
...My car
Is an expense
(Gas, repairs, insurance)
I use it less and less and stay
At home...
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Categories:
home economics, life
Form: Cinquain