What Am I
...What gave me away?
Was it my sway?
Or my long limber limbs
Like glasses with broken rims?
Oh sure, wind has its way with me,
But broken or uprooted, I’ll never be.
Neither short, not tall...
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Categories:
limber up, fun, humor, riddle, tree,
Form: Couplet
Mourning the Loss of my Youth
...I used to be able to outrun my puppy, not anymore, not anymore
Moving with arthritis in both ankles is a drag; I am kind of a bore
I am seventy-two, but some days I feel ninety-four, and I’m not ki...
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Categories:
limber up, me,
Form: Rhyme
nurseries green and pennies brown
...hello brother,
irish hearing of translations
in american creole we leave, ears are not left nor right
they perk and grass talls to a tickling memory for running up to the hairs of trigger
trig...
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Categories:
limber up, animal, august, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Lazy Balmy March Day
...Air conditioner is loud and steady
Wind chimes prove the wind is ready
Balmy spring day bringing us March
Limber and lithe, not a bit of starch
Dogs stare at me on this lazy day
Loving the cou...
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Categories:
limber up, march,
Form: Rhyme
tip of the cap's
...how to be
while i am offer out of your tongue
spoken past
today no cast
mold in the dye
laughter and decaying denile
locked in a single soaring, owner
prevailing gumption
detailing winded eng...
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Categories:
limber up, character, homework,
Form: Free verse
Toppling Monuments
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Statues, iconoclasts love to destroy
Toppling monuments brings them great joy
Keeps them all limber
As they shout ‘Timber’
Columbus crashed down saying ~ ‘Land a...
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Categories:
limber up, anger, violence, youth,
Form: Limerick
mine pursuit hern dance'd
....
imagine i
enter'n the dance studio
click
click
click
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Categories:
limber up, beauty, blessing, dance,
Form: Verse
lanky lean lithe limber lollygagging Leo
...lanky lean lithe limber lollygagging Leo loved a little lampoonery
loving lasting laughter, leisurely learning lemonade lessons
lickety split, laundering little leagues of lithographs in lime...
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Categories:
limber up, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Alliteration
A Limerick About Theresa
...There once was a girl named Theresa.
She looked like the Mona Lisa.
She didn't fight it.
Because she resided
In the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
There was a girl named Theresa.
She thought she had ...
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Categories:
limber up, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
limber up, adventure, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Dawning Sun Shape
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Written: May 03, 2024
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I witnessed the dawn seraphic sapphire spike,
I marveled at the world's exquisiteness strike.
The colors shim...
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Categories:
limber up, analogy, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Fanciful Visions
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A thought flew by
I tried to snatch it
But from the air
I just could not grab it
Next floats an image
along the banks of my brain
Yet when I try to ...
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Categories:
limber up, adventure, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Pumpkin Spice Pandemonium
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Its sun is brilliant bright and bonny bold,
a lustrous light, largesse in satin sheen.
Intake of breath sensory manifold,
for a warm, welcoming autumnal scene.
Aurora-colored leaves paint the...
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Categories:
limber up, appreciation, autumn, color, god,
Form: Sonnet
Skinny Floral Christmas Elf
...Skinny floral Christmas elf with eyes so green
Your attitude and holly is totally and fully seen
We marvel at your body, so lithe and loose
You are skinnier than a wiped-out chicken goose.
Skin...
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Categories:
limber up, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Every Wiggling and Wing
...touched it, its fingerprints.
couldn’t hug it - too wide.
pressed against it. hiked
up my leg, to reach a limb.
limber, i’m not
nowadays. my wrinkled cage
engages my imagination.
i branch out....
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Categories:
limber up, tree,
Form: Free verse
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