Sand
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Sand
Miracle Man
3/18/2024
Sand appears to hotfoot through an hourglass,
unrelentingly depleting our precious time.
Without discernible deviation and no impasse,
plays no favorites ...
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Categories:
hotfoot, time,
Form: Quatrain
Loving Little Grace
...Grace was full of joy, happiness, frolicking with mirth.
Could hotfoot it across a ballroom in spite of her girth.
Her tomfoolery had us in stitches most of the time.
I believe she said she weighe...
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Categories:
hotfoot, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
City
...The zealously guarded
Verdant pasture of
The city club
Attract like filings
To a magnet
A herd of undernourished
Hungry city buffaloes
Just as their slavering lips
Pull at the first mouthfuls...
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Categories:
hotfoot, urban,
Form: Free verse
Good Ideas Fifty Cents
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Good Ideas fifty Cents,
Others, Dime a Dozen
Written: by Tom Wright
January 2015
An ocean of ideas are birthed each day,
Some hotfoot, dawdle, some, time steals away.
If worthy id...
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Categories:
hotfoot, birth, work,
Form: Couplet
The Better Day Is Holiday
...The better day is holiday.
The better day is holiday,
Hasten up and hurry up,
Hotfoot, hotfoot, holiday;
Too long you tarry on the way.
Now I am impatiently waiting,
Marking calendar like p...
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Categories:
hotfoot, holiday,
Form: Free verse
On Growing Old
...On Growing Old
© Ben Burton 5-21-2014
I was something to behold back in my childhood
Quite the trickster, I was faster than my prey
Plastic vomit, rubber snakes, the best was "Hotfoot"
April first was in my wheelhouse every day
I was thirty when I wed my childhood sweetheart
Soon there'd come a run of sadness in my life
We were overjoyed the day my wife got pregnant
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Categories:
hotfoot, age, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Shaking the Lily Pad
...I have a big, old froggie that lives in my ornate lily pond, so refined.
And every time I have a guest, he Farts and spurts water from his behind.
My son has named him bubbles and tells everyone, how...
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Categories:
hotfoot, adventure, family, funny, me,
Form: Free verse
A Knight's Hunt
...A magic knight coursing on in brilliance
On lean hack in clanging, cleaving aegis,
Crunching incantation-dark, blunt, and grunt.
So light illumines his cold, whiskered phiz
And it predate...
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Categories:
hotfoot, adventure, imagination, on writing
Form: I do not know?