Long Duckies Poems

Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever (Toller)

To “toll” is to dance like a fox
Luring mallards or teals to the rocks
Where a hunter’s awaiting
What the dog has been baiting
Scaring duckies right out of their jocks

The Old English...

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 Dog In A Purse


  I have the very best pet, the absolute very, very best
    There is  no comparison he is better than the rest
    ...

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I was not there the day my father died.  Father's shadow deported in the heavens's light, toddler memories do not recall when he ascended, never heard his wafting echo.  Missing, fragment pieces of...

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The color of the river is navy blue
The rivers current motion is so wavy
The wavy river sinks my feet in deeply
My feet which touch the sand gently
Swimming outwards towards the river is risky
Swimming outwards towards...

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My love, you can dress me as a clown,
I can be your jester,
I'll certainly play your fool.

You can paint my nose red
And dress me in a polka dotted suit.

I'll hop on a pogo stick,
Juggle several...

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early Saturday morning
I wake up to
coffee brewing and
cartoons blaring

making my way into the kitchen
I hear Looney Toons
from the living room
and the shower running

I quietly enter the bathroom
smiling and undressing
to surprise you

pulling back the shower curtain
with...

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SUMMER’S END

staying cool, in the pool,
where children are cruel,
on a very hot day—
Summer’s officially over.

from submarine fool,
fishy bubbling school,
plenipotentiary fuel—
a payload parade.

when the ping-pong jewels
surface - whirlpool
of fleeing ridicule.
afraid of riveting stool—
a flotsam snicker’s bar.

The...

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Nothing but puppies;
Swam with the guppies;
Hang out cause their buddies, 
When they get out of the pool yukky
Smelly are the fur biddies, 
And those floppies, kitties,putties, putty, puffy, bunnies, 
Eaten all the yuppy gummies, 
While...

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You live on an island not at all on an island
But smack, in the middle of life,
The center of our small word loving society
If it weren't for you, I had drowned
In that Soup-sea of incomprehensible
rules...

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drops of moon beams into the night
harvest of fields turning ripe
sunshine smiling in warm delight
makes my world yellow

banana pudding and lemon pie
piles of leaves reaching the sky
fears we keep hidden inside
makes my world yellow

baby chicks...

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When I think of you, my Mother
One thing comes to mind:yellow

Goldenrods and sunshine
Peace and all that's mellow

Halos, rings and lemonade
And honeysuckle too

Bumblebees and stary nights
And all the good that may shine through

Dolls with long blond...

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As I sat on the wayside fence
Enjoying a bask in the sun
Came by a Mom Duck 
With her soft-downed yellow brood.

She "Ten-hutted" right in front of me
Ducklings screech-halted there.
I scrabbled in my pockets,
My chips turned...

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Playdays Nursery Rhyme

Your rainy play day comes to an end
Running and jumping in puddles with friends
Creating rain paintings – making mud pies
Wearing warm rain coats – boots with googly eyes.

Time for a “tubbie” to wash...

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