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Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.

I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...

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Categories: oxbow, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme



Richard Mcgeehan Poem
Richard Mcgeehan Poem

Poetic license I employ
to match inventive
wisdom and witticism
regarding (brother in law of mine 
husband of eldest sister of same)
interspersing, initiating, incorporating
fabrication whenever possible,
and only the subject himself
can discern fact from fiction
and get a...

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Categories: oxbow, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation, birthday, celebration, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School

As a Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got the brilliant idea 
for his sole son to be dressed 
with one of a kind getup.

Missus Shaner...

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Categories: oxbow, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form: Free verse
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White Trash
Chief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”

As Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got brilliant idea 
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua 
putrid offal getup. 

Missus Shaner (talon clawed, 
shriveled relic...

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Categories: oxbow, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form: Free verse
Time To Shower When Pervasive Odor of Ureic Acid
Time To Shower...When Pervasive Odor Of Ureic Acid

Doth strongly waft, sting,
and nauseate about me
olfactory nose flying zone
bombarding cilia of
nasal passageway analogous
to displeasure wrought by

crashing, deafening, exploding,
ear splitting xylophone,
also synonymous isolated like
barenaked lady within
remote location of...

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Categories: oxbow, appreciation, dad, father, health, paradise, self, uplifting,
Form: Prose Poetry



Farrago Go Again With My Gallimaufry
A nascent hodgepodge
     of gobbledygook from me,
or alternatively yours
     nada soo true lee,
this incipient harm
     less bumbling in das scribe
   ...

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Categories: oxbow, 10th grade, 12th grade, joy, mystery, nonsense,
Form: Lyric
Blessed Anonymity of Cyberspace
Ordinarily, a discriminatory
guardedness factors large what I air
in close confidential quarters
within therapist office bare
ring pocked marked soul
of this feigned cheer
full contemplative, introspective,

and ruminative despair
ring fellow, whose unfettered
stream of consciousness
(oxbow lakes included) doth endear
me, asper when...

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Categories: oxbow, anti bullying, community, life, longing, meaningful, self,
Form: Free verse
Colloquialism Fun
Up here in Canada we have our own words
Everywhere does, some think ours are absurd
Between toques, hosers and rhyming currency
Like loonies and toonies, we do speak uniquely
But narrow it down to one province specific
Our Saskatchewan...

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Categories: oxbow, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
A Bend In the River
The serpentine and ageless liquid
   mercurial possessed snake
eternally swallowed 
   since the beginning of time
   one unquenchable thirst to gorge and slake
slurping up an icy cold mountainous pebbly shake
...

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Categories: oxbow, appreciation, beauty, creation, inspirational, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hitchiker From Another World
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Sunday, an overarching day both raw edge conduit and 
coarse grain shelter for that soul in torment,
it’s when psyches plagued by doubt face those  
sudden twists and turns we call bizarre,
thoughts of the macabre...

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Categories: oxbow, art, change, character, city, dark, engagement, environment,
Form: Narrative
Donny Brook Doth Runnel Along
Generating a ring
     of bright waters, which
currently meanders, ponders,
     and then streams - twitch
ching reflexively as flora
     and fauna lap rich
text chard liquid
...

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Categories: oxbow, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Home Calling
HOME CALLING

I rose from the soil and water of Barak valley
and like a white  bellied  heron , reached the sky
above the bamboo brakes and the blue hills
to live in an alien land for...

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Categories: oxbow, river,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Beautiful Place
Earth is such a beautiful place,
a blue marble spinning in space.
It boasts stretches of ice and snow,
jungles, forests, mountains, grasslands,
oxbow rivers and burning sands.
Along with rain and winds that blow
it hosts glaciers, rivers of ice;
that...

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Categories: oxbow, 9th grade, earth, humanity, image, imagery, nature,
Form: Verse
No More Mister Gneiss Guy
Geologists say ‘by your leave’,
we’re famously polite:
we wear our heart upon our sleeve,
rejoice at rhyolite.
We’re very patient people, but
I tolerated stuff before
that I’m not taking any more:
up with this I will not put.

Don’t bring to...

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Categories: oxbow, relationship,
Form: Verse

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