The Curse of the Hopeless
...You hold someone down, do what they don't ask, fulfill their wildest dream, to not feel reciprocated, to feel you are being used, while your needs drift down stream.
You endure the pain; you accept ...
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Categories:
kindergartners, anxiety, deep, destiny, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Sunflower Season
...Sunflower Season
Just beyond town
Past Walmart
And the line of fast food
A field of sunflowers grow
As the heat dies down
And backpacks are taken out of the closet
Their black heads lin...
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Categories:
kindergartners, america, appreciation, beauty, change,
Form: Free verse
The Powerpuff Girls
...Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup—
Sugar, spice and everything nice…backup.
Chemical X created the perfect little girls
with kicka@@ powers and whirls.
Professor Utonium
created his perfect kinde...
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Categories:
kindergartners, girl, power,
Form: Clerihew
Entrance Into the Garden of Eden An Exit Oft Repeated In Four Acts
...Entrance into the Garden of Eden
An Exit Oft Repeated in Four Acts
By Sy Roth
Act 1—Somnolence
Smells of winter tickle a warm sun.
Crisp air,
Red, brown and yellow leaves,
Thrust the tre...
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Categories:
kindergartners, anxiety, character, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Reflections
...I'd say it was late Spring or early Fall in 1954, a quiet time
in American history; and Mr. Eisenhower was The President.
There was a sweet and kind teacher hard at work,
teaching kindergartners ...
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Categories:
kindergartners, 1st grade, childhood, school,
Form: Free verse
I Didn'T Want To Write This Poem
...I didn’t want to write this poem
Of twenty children dead.
I’d much prefer composing words
Of pleasant things instead.
I didn’t want to think up rhymes
For evil, horror, shock;
I’d like to hide those...
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Categories:
kindergartners, death, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
School Supplies
...I glanced out my window watchin' kids plod along to school today.
I recalled my school days and how things have changed along the way
I watched the little fellers hunched over with their over-loade...
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Categories:
kindergartners, funny, school, school, school,
Form: Rhyme
Puppy Love
...Two young kindergartners kiss
holding hands on the playground
vowing lifetime together….
anniversary
Copyright © 2010 By Caryl S. Muzzey
Third Place Winner ~ "Love or Humor” Poetry Contest...
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Categories:
kindergartners, love
Form: Dodoitsu
His First Love
...I remember the heavy round wooden tables
Built low to the ground,
Just right for kindergartners.
He would always sit close.
I didn't notice.
Out-of-doors on the playground was a giant oak....
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Categories:
kindergartners, childhood, history, schoolme, memory,
Form: Free verse