playgrounds once upon a time
...once upon a time
in the fifties and sixties
school playgrounds had small merry-go-rounds
and teeter totters aka seesaws
our slides were as tall as our nine story school house
safety was not a ...
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Categories:
kneepads, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Jadaya and Peroxide Sunday
...peroxide time
little jadaya skinned her knee
there are a few tears
there are a couple of 'ow's
there are even a few jumpy flinches
once the feeling passes, however, the kneepads go on, and it is...
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Categories:
kneepads, child, memory,
Form: Free verse
Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
...Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:
There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
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Categories:
kneepads, humor, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Limericks V - Politics
...Limericks V - Politics
Baked Alaskan
by Michael R. Burch
There is a strange yokel so flirty
she makes whores seem icons of purity.
With all her winkin’ and blinkin’
Palin seems to be thinki...
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Categories:
kneepads, america, humor, humorous, light,
Form: Limerick
Limericks
...Limericks
by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle ...
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Categories:
kneepads, giggle, light, nonsense, parody,
Form: Limerick