Towel Hot Cake After a Bath
...In one’s towel bathroom things are not well
While there is nothing like towel
For the last part of a shower,
Filthy body back ‘Saved Flower…
Towels: hot cake after a bath
But if not handy no ...
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Categories:
howell, allusion, body, clothes, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Clerihew Deverell
...Walter Howell Deverell
knew his Shakespeare so well
Loved to paint ' en plein air'
with 'kin' as models in all 'weather'...
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Categories:
howell, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Dear Goodwoman
...Dear Mrs. Goodwoman,
I am sad to inform you of the passing of your late Uncle Sir Rembrandt Hussleberry. He lived to the ripe age of 92, and it is his wish for you to inherit his entire fortune. M...
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Categories:
howell, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Antipoem 4 Santo and Johnny
...AntiPoem 4
“Santo and Johnny”
(Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading)
Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass
Just oozing out their mel...
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Categories:
howell, memory,
Form: Free verse
Grey
...Grey like the big fluffy clouds that sit up high in the sky
Grey like the walls that watch us without any eyes
Grey like the wolves that howell away
Grey like the roads that take us miles away
Gr...
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Categories:
howell, 8th grade,
Form: Alliteration
At the Club
...To be read in the voice of Thurston Howell, III
from "Gilligan's Island"
At the club
we drop Poetrysoup
premium memberships
like names
on a social calendar
Binky and Nadine
drink more Blood...
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Categories:
howell, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Hilary Rodham Clinton
...Angel moved to and fro in Chicago, Illinois
Edgewater Hospital door opened
Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham was received
Travailed for a contributor to American she bore
Suddenly Hilary Diane Rodham Clinto...
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Categories:
howell, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Ginger Grant
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A woman stood on the rocks looking out to the sea.
She was once a famous Hollywood redhead beauty.
This actress starred in many movies her fans would see.
However, she now dwells in hopeless...
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Categories:
howell, dedication, nostalgia, tribute, boat,
Form: Rhyme
This Land Is My Land
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This Land is My Land
Ee, by gum, have you seen this place?
How things have changed since the good old days!
This land was meant for the workers pace,
The rolling hills and the far...
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Categories:
howell, happiness, nature, places,
Form: Rhyme
I Can'T Believe I Keep Saying Stuff Like That
...I Can’t Believe I Keep Saying Stuff Like That
By Elton Camp
I won’t have any trouble relating to the regular Joe
After all, I only have two hundred fifty million or so
Among the filthy rich...
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Categories:
howell, funny,
Form: Rhyme
A 3 Hour Tour--Right Here On Gilligan's Island---
...Our love is like Gilligan's Island
but what we have is so much more
And to all the girls that I've loved before
they are but Brady Bunches on three hour tours
Cheers to the ladies on that Island
bu...
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Categories:
howell, anniversary, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, love,
Form: Rhyme