There was a poor poet from Portleen,
He wrote a haiku that he thought keen.
But he used upper case,
And sadly lost face,
And never has since been seen.
Keen Eye For Detail
Critical observation.
Pay close attention.
Sharp minded.
Value precision.
Hand to paper.
Fluent speaker.
Mind always racing.
Comprehending.
Eagle eye.
Recognizing ability.
Keen eye for detail.
Powerful skills.
Being mindful.
Repetitive.
Scrutiny.
Clean lines.
An artist has a keen eye for drawing.
Creative thinking.
a poet pays attention hearing the unspoken
and all of nature's whispers, keeping the third eye wide open
seeing the hidden and infinitesimal, clearly.
Will the house our cadaver impeach?
Mike's abused his freedom of speech
With head in the sand
Johnson takes command
Like a selfish son of a beach
Peachy Keen was thrown into the ether by a young disc jockey
His name was Jim Hawthorne, and it was nineteen forty-eight
Hailing from Pasadena, California, he was loved by the teenage crowd
Always making up words, like Hogan, intriguing and delighting them
one of the few slangs that has to be taken in by tone of voice
It either means something is really excellent, and you love it
or it means it is not good, and you despise it,
so when you hear it, listen for either playful admiring tone or sarcasm
Are we not our graves digging,
With the keenest interest in rigging,
The first to be buried our image;
“To Electoral Franchise: Savage?
Are we not behind greatly lagging,
When the Neutral Press we keep gagging,
The next to be silenced Plain Truth;
A despot imaged as today’s Ruth…
Often, the time to befriend hell’s thugs,
Remember they don’t need your hugs,
Lover of carpets you take to rugs;
Very few things could say ‘No’ to Drugs…
Election rigged is a virgin raped,
Never count it that you have escaped;
In the robes of Molester draped;
Don’t expect a future well-shaped.
She wanted to spend all of her birthday money on llama socks.
They were beautiful, blue llamas with lavender and marigold stripes.
Fluffy tassels on the side; but they were costly.
She had twenty dollars total.
With tax, these socks were going to take most of it.
Her mother tried to talk her out of it.
Took her to the dollar store.
Pointed out a multitude of things she could buy.
She bought the llama socks.
Loved them, kept them until she was grown.
At age forty-two, she might still have them.
She knew what she wanted.
A girl with a keen mind of her own.
Winnetka the witch was wily and keen.
Her mind was sharp, she was a mystical queen.
She decided to trick a hoot owl on Halloween.
She did her best, but he was wise, not green.
He would not fall for her tricks or spells.
He stayed planted in his trees with no kind of ills.
She did her best, but she could not get him down.
He was too slick for this fancy witch from town.
Others came by and offered guidance galore.
One cat paraded up from the stoop next door.
The owl is too tricky, he can outsmart you, she said.
The witch was angry now; almost out of her head.
She wanted that owl, and she wanted him badly.
She tried every trick she had ever heard of and gladly.
“Did she get him?” I asked a bystander the very next day
The old timer laughed. “No. He flew away! “
A sight perhaps dawn or night,
With shadows, that enlight.
Your ken mayhaps not bright,
Yet your mind is might.
Not a blank slate;
But an eager fate
To learn, not hate
To earn, to create.
A sight perhaps dawn or night,
With shadows, that enlight.
Your ken mayhaps not bright,
Yet your mind is might.
Not a blank slate;
But an eager fate
To learn, not hate
To earn, to create.
My neighbour’s little son is so smart
In an assignment on Grandparents, he wrote
“They never seem to hurry,
Any time, can tell a story
Before sleep, they take their teeth and gums out”
sweet succulent peach
chomp chomp juice runs down your chin
~ sticky shiny smile
Right arm is missing or that's how it seems
Could be worse but it's as bad as it's been
No telly, no 'puter
All I think of is hooters
Which ain't all that bad, in fact it's kinda keen
K-een
I-nspired
M-user
B-egins
E-mploying
R-emarkable
L-ine's
E-xcellent
Y-early
I-dea
R-ightfully
O-ffering
S-weetness
I-n
D-ivine
O-bjective
Topic: Birthday of Kimberley A. Irosido (October 12)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-essage
I-n
K-een
E-xpression
E-mploys
G-reetings
A-s
R-ighteous
C-elebrant
E-njoys
R-apturous
A-crostic
Topic: Birthday of Mikee Garcera (November 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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