Shark Week Serenade
...Shark Week Serenade
It’s Shark Week—let the ocean roar,
A celebration through the tide,
I plunge where blue horizons soar
And let my fascination glide.
Sharks in spotlights, strong and sleek,
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Categories:
jellies, ocean,
Form: Free verse
strawberries
...strawberries
plump, sweet, eat whole or
muffins, jellies, ice cream, pies~
the fruit of all trades
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Categories:
jellies, fruit,
Form: Haiku
Just a trifle
...‘Twas the night before Christmas
When I started the chore
Of making the trifle
As I’d done before
I’d boiled the kettle
when I realised
I’d forgotten the jelly
what a surprise
So I jump...
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Categories:
jellies, christmas, food,
Form: Rhyme
2024, Remembering the 80's, Extended Version, lyrics
...Barbie, Atari, He-man
Batman, She-Ra, Ronald Reagan
Lower student loans, and landline phones
The Dark Crystal and around 5.2 billion people
Andre the Giant’s Honeycomb commercial
Rainbow Brit...
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Categories:
jellies, fun, funny, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
she recognized his despair
...Flora recognized the brownie’s despair
His depression wafted and waved in the summer air
She herself had been the victim of some sad times
The cure was to volunteer for the March of dimes
You n...
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Categories:
jellies, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Cream Filled Pastries
...A sweet fragrance pierced the air
As I hold on to this moment.
Awaking at last to lonesome bedsheets
As I hear movement from within the kitchen.
I arise to a foggy atmosphere
being probed by ...
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Categories:
jellies, caregiving, creation, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Chocolate Eggs
...In July, no air cooler will dissipate the heat.
I squeeze the bag, it squishes, like paste within my hand.
The chocolate eggs were perfect, the kind one loves to eat.
April's chocolate ovals now a...
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Categories:
jellies, candy,
Form: Rhyme
fun with words
...Clay climbed and clobbered Clemson Clue
Doing deliberate diamond disciples daring do,
Enough Elizabethan excitement expressed Ellie Lou
Finishing fancy French frankfurters, freeing Friday’s flu.
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Categories:
jellies, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Samanthas Jams and Jellies
...Samantha made jams and jellies out of this, that and the other
She had been taught by the best, her marvelous mother.
You could probably make watermelon jelly said her big brother.
Compliments mad...
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Categories:
jellies, food,
Form: Rhyme
County Fair
...The hum of the motors that run the rides,
watching cars on tracks going up and down.
Squeals and screams from all those children that ride,
scrambler, octopus, and merry-go-round.
From the exci...
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Categories:
jellies, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Missouri Raised
...Growing up in Podunk Missouri,
meant that we had the freedom to roam.
Up and down rivers and wooded hills,
those places that we called home.
Picked berries, peaches, plums, and cherries,
and a...
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Categories:
jellies, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Jellyfish
...Creations of the almighty are inexplicable,
The Bee Hummingbird to the blue whale or the elephant,
Each creature has a unique form and shape; admissible!
Whether they're the same in stamina is irr...
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Categories:
jellies, fish, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet
A Thanksgiving Feast
...Two turkeys in the oven and candy yams
Whipped mash potatoes, cranberry sauce from a can
A green bean casserole and a relish plate as planned
Corn bread dressing and sage dressing for the big man
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Categories:
jellies, food, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween
...Christmas has it's candy canes and chocolate Santa Claus doll
Easter with it's Peeps and jelly bird eggs can get a little dull
But do you recall the greatest candy Holiday of all...
Through the ...
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Categories:
jellies, candy, halloween, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Wizardly Dastardly Dan
...The fey were excited and they had a big brass band.
They were speaking of green mole house in autumn land.
But what is it? I asked, as I took my feet out of wet sand.
It is where delicacies and je...
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Categories:
jellies, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
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