Magic Rabbit
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A funny-looking bunny dropped by the other day
black white and brown fur a stray who'd lost his way
and
he let me hand-feed him with carrot tops
and spinach leaves but that is ...
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Categories:
hopped up, animal, fun, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Here for the Moment
...Janice Avery loved deep green nature; like cherry sunset owls, gawping.
She dwelt with her parents and Sissy, when old, golden days were walking.
They lived out in the hilly country, wher...
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Categories:
hopped up, bird, color, fantasy, memory,
Form: Couplet
Around the World
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One day I took the subway
and I went around the world
From one car to another
a new nation’s flag unfurled
The train took off from Brooklyn
and I hopped on at Times Square
and by the time th...
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Categories:
hopped up, language,
Form: Rhyme
When I was Young
...When I was young I had my health
Nothing hurt
I did not need arthritis pills
I could walk without pain
I wish I had danced and skipped and hopped more
while I still could...
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Categories:
hopped up, memory,
Form: Free verse
Good-Bye Mr Dragonfly
...I was relaxing sitting in my sunroom,
and I was marveling at the sky
When I noticed stuck to my window screen
there was an interesting big old dragonfly
So, I gently and quietly opened up my w...
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Categories:
hopped up, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Ribbit
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Froggy went a courtin',
"Ribbit," he did sing,
altho' singing weren't his thing,
more like the punchline to a joke,
'Please don't smoke or I might croak.'
In the deep end of t...
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Categories:
hopped up, animal, fun, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
The Not-So-Early Bird
...I saw a robin catch a worm
Then put it down to watch it squirm.
This action was repeated ‘til
I guess he’d finally had his fill.
With worm held tight, he hopped away,
His breakfast snagged, to...
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Categories:
hopped up, bird,
Form: Rhyme
A child cries in a mirror
...A child's joy was taken at gunpoint
in a long, dark tunnel on a winter night~
as clouds drifted, whispering subconscious fears,
stirred by music played by demons,
loosed like wildfire in a room o...
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Categories:
hopped up, bird, child, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
My boyfriend's cat
...As i woke up in the morning,
My boyfriend’s cat
Entered in the room;
She did not know me well yet.
So I kept calling at her
To come nearby
As I was laying;
Reluctant in the beginning.
Finally...
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Categories:
hopped up, art,
Form: Free verse
Equestrienne
...She appeared beside me
before I could climb on
the shiny palomino—
barefoot, bright-eyed,
with a plan already forming
behind her charming grin,
so naturally I let her
canter first and then I’d...
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Categories:
hopped up, childhood, girl, happy, memory,
Form: Free verse
coaster
...why is it so hard to be happy
and not just for a moment
that part’s easy
but to stay happy on a rollercoaster that seems to have no bottom
i hopped on my never-ending rollercoaster again.
buck...
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Categories:
hopped up, sad,
Form: Free verse
COMPLETING THE CIRCLE
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Life is a series of circles…each second circles into each minute,
each minute into each hour, each hour into each day…
Each circle has it’s own attraction…It’s own unique rhythm and beat.
and w...
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Categories:
hopped up, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
hopped up, food,
Form: Pleiades
In playground of imagination
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In my playground of imagination, I think about the game dodge ball
and all the skeptical, harmful, things I dodged in life
I think about hopscotch, as I hopped over hurdles, laughed at the outc...
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Categories:
hopped up, fun, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Butterfly
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The Butterfly
By Mystic Rose
As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew
anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue
Lifting her w...
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Categories:
hopped up, butterfly,
Form: Couplet
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