Long Boggle Poems

A leopard found a shepherd who was looking after lambs
The shepherd had some sandwiches with different flavour jams
The leopard feeling peckish thought he’d steal one tiny sheep
So he snuck behind the shepherd and that’s when...

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Your 6’4” frame hunched over 
in dedicated concentration
late into the evening as you worked
Sometimes on work-related things but more
often happily lost in the depths of a hobby
Tinkering with your HAM radio
or twisting infinitesimally small copper...

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Dry Facts Can Perform Juicy Acts

In the EFL community
all around the world
it’s an undeniable 
and unpleasant reality that
no matter how well-motivated
you and your students are
no matter how real and acute 
the need for learning
a language...

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“On the firm stage of my dreary life one thing is true,
        for there will never be another sister like you. 
      ...

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Like tipper tapping tiny feet toddling
I watched your mirriard of droplets 
stream down my car window
Night sky like the backdrop of a show
and the lightning strikes adding to the mood of the performance
where ordinarily it...

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Amidst AGGRAVATION of sin-game schemes, I appeal to the Almighty…
Beseeching His pardon for my transgression-caused BOGGLE
Cleaving to His compassion with mercy’s CATCH PHRASE
Declaring earnestly “I’m SORRY; please forgive me”  
Enabled with repentance, not religious...

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ANYONE GAME---

Alas! the smelly disposition your deceiving heart;
Got me mind-BOGGLE twisted as rotten meat such;
Hearing of those things those rumors in SEQUENCE;             ...

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her scent
well it still
covers
me
how we lost
all we use
to be
was
all
up
to
me
looking back now
i still can't see
hindsight just an word
never meant nothing to me
that double negative
uses me positively
caught another on my mind water is boggle ing me
drown me...

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My speech was all out of sequence, my catch phrase for it was ‘mad gab’
I kept saying balderdash like apples to apples my brain was  a scrabble!  
Also I was hearing things in...

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WRITING POETRY WITHOUT RULES*

I thought I'd write some poetry
Just for the fun that it would be.
So I went to the web to see
 what it said
about how to write poems just for me.

I ran into...

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And so I sat thinking of something I couldn't live without....
As if my house was on fire and I had 5 seconds to grab one thing. 

A very hard decision to make. Or is it?
I'm...

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Tibetan monks share colorful lore
Taking wide-eyed listeners from a valley floor
To peaks in the sentinel Himalayas
So how could such holy men’s tales betray us

A dark, furry creature’s outline has been seen
Startling climbers on mountains so...

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Anyone Game?  The Mini Reeses Cup Mystery


Yes, it surely did boggle our minds! 
And at first, only I had seen it...
but I knew to speak out was a must!
Some big trouble he's going to...

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ANYTIME GAME ?

             Beautiful LIFE is nothing but just a game.
            ...

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I am free
Flying restlessly through the skies
But though my heart is willing, my body weakens 
I must stop for a rest of solitude

I land gently in the water
But something isn't right 
The water feels as...

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Star Ships

A star ship soars through gloaming skies faster than warp speed as it appears to disappear from sight leaving only traces of light in disbelieving blinking eyes that search the skies. The next second...

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No successes come without a struggle        
A pity to wallow in life’s sorrow              
To focus...

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Easier from a bush to take a man
Than from a man to take the bush
Cos bush sinks DNA into Salman
Making removal hard to push

In settings where Salman regresses to type
Despite apparent education
Acquired with much hype
With...

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I feel him close around me
his warmth penetrates 
melts my fears and stirs
we lift slowly quietly into the east 
flame greets us
fire the first of the five

air the second 
pushes against me
seeking entrance into my...

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They say you’ve made many mistakes building your frail  life
that collapsed engulfing you in smoke of  trouble and strife.
If in time you had wisely taken the right and calculated step,
avoided  aggravation, you...

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Welcome to this "risk"-taking game of "life."
Choose a blue companion peg, or snag a pink wife,
or ride "solitaire" through this "scrabble"d "mousetrap,"
or add so many kids that they stack on your lap.

Enjoy the terrible twos...

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Two billion people are of the Christmas persuasion,
Two billion people celebrate that most joyous occasion.

If that is true, Santa has to visit 23,148 people every second.
Which really is an awful lot as near as I...

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So Sheila and Mindy and Karen and Sue
Were anxious one Friday for something to do.
“We want something fun but we haven’t a CLUE!
And we all know the clubs are strictly TABOO!”

Mindy hollered out, “I’m so...

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Take special care with you as you travel
through the DARK GLEN tonight, ride
your dark stallion fast and don't stop
for nothing for there is evil there that
would love to possess your life and 
they are all...

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A most genius, scientific mind, whom I respect,
with chalkboards full of numbers and symbols;
such mathematical equations and theories
as to boggle the ordinary mind, spoke these words,
"No room for God."
I find that odd.

The same words spoken...

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