Long Quacked Poems

[In the spirit of ‘Old Macdonald’, I envisage a class
full of kids filling the space between stanzas with
moo’s, quacks and dings etc as appropriate. Of course
if you’re in charge of a room full of kids......

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The putrid, malodorous and fowl nauseating smell 
   can still be conjured nearly fifty years later wracked
I never forget ineradicable tangy, sulfurous 
   acrid odor rankled olfaction tract
entire sinus cavity, yet...

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TYPICAL 30 - The Start of the 2013-2014 NHL Season
30 of them began their battle with hopeful beginnings
But 14 of them will have their early exit...

As for the 16 teams, their Stanley Cup Playoffs dream...

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Siege warfare (trumpeting)
average joe biden his time
linkedin with aberrant behavior
transpires within me mind,
(not just today December 5th, 2020,

but everyday/365)
warrants depleting stockpile arsenal
constituting exhausting mental health
uprooting deep seated repellent pesky
daunting lost cause.

Overruled by irrational thoughts,
I feebly...

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Two cowpokes stagger to the saloon
Fighting because thems fighting words
Over a red parrot blocking their path
Pacing arrogantly before the bar entrance
Flapping green wings and screeching
The two men eventually find their way in
Order up a bottle...

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THE DUCKLINGS' POINT OF VIEW

The little child looked at us and smiled,
This job in the sun would be much fun,
We splashed sprightly,  he sat quietly,
Race had begun for the crumbs of a bun;

With our...

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When I was in pigtails, years younger than him,
my big brother’s bedroom was filled to the brim
New comic books, from the small corner store
would light up his eyes, from the ceiling to floor
Every nickel or...

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Jersey and Teddy had become very sick
Together they had drunk some very spoilt milk
Both went to the doctor, the pain was so intense
Doc Duck quacked and peered at them through a very thick lens
Oval in...

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The trees swayed in the forceful wind
A sharp noise was heard
The child in the stroller grinned
You could hear the chirping of a bird

The owl hooted
A branch cracked
The tree stumps were rooted
The duck in the lake...

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Time has come for getting tough
               For I have now had quite enough

Day-after-day this kid comes 'round
    ...

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On the lush green lawns by river Avon,
deep in thought,I was leaning on  a tree,
golden sun rays spraying paint over town,
When my eyes caught a boatman sail past me.

Water rippled and splashed about his...

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Dear Alliteration, 
First friend, foremost;
Forgetting not,
Shy Allegory, 
Dressed in Allusion; 
Sweet Anaphora, 
How I need thee! 
How I need thee!
 
And Assonance; 
Never deep asleep, 
Nor rest Refrained, 
By Caesura; 
Clever Chiasmus; 
Who has pause...

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Picture#1 -"No! means NOTHING to a duck-
(A duck chasing a young girl across a yard)


Today, I went to the pond 
to sit and eat a snack
I shared a little here and a 
little there with...

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A no rules barred Limerick . . . 

THERE ONCE WAS A FARMER . . . 

There once was a farmer called Mr Brown
Who with his duck in tow went off to town
The duck panicked...

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They taught me at Sunday school
that the Spirit's wind; and cool.
On a night cool and windy,
my eyes were wide and flinty.

Through translucent window pane, 
jiggled a confused weather vane,
shy which direction to face;
excitement set to...

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Snowflakes Escape

At the crack of dawn shots rang out
Ducks scattered at the sound
Obscenities quacked back from every beak
Hunters were not there for them

They came to capture fox
Snow fell with cartridges as hunters froze in thought...

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Reindeer at Christmas will often eat carrots
Though Santa once had one who liked to eat parrots
But parrots at Christmas can be hard to find
He wasn’t too fussy so he didn’t mind
He never complained that he...

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Early one morn the sun did sink
   in the west as the moon arose
And Farmer Jones inspected his rose
   of purple corn, which began to dance
Shedding sheaves, donning pants...

While in the...

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Smelly Tom:

There was an old man called Tom,

No one knew where he was from,

Every time he bent down,

He would sit with a frown,

For he always dropped a bomb.

~~~~~~~~~
About Poetry:


There is something I simply must say,

About...

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out on the lake, a moonlit night. 
bats' swoop, drink, skip, to my delight! 
missed sleeping ducks put them to flight! 
we duck in fright, we duck in fright! 

we, so sure they had not seen us, 
really had no...

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Today started happily,
For this chuffed Old Duck
When she looked at Poetry Soup
She could not believe her luck
She was the poet of the day
Can you imagine that?
She was so surprised and pleased.
She waddled, and she quacked.
She...

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Chuck the duck chased Sally across the pond,
she was the prettiest girl duck he ever saw,
her feathers were soft and fluffy
with a personality which was not stuffy.

He had his eye on her for some time
as...

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I knew a mime who was ever silent
One of the many who were licensed
        Hit his toe doing his act
        Felt...

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The train chugged along the track
The ducks all said quack quack quack
The cows said Moo 
And birds flew



Over the fastest train in the world
The ducks were swimming in the pond
The cows were standing in a...

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An inert tarn


In the pond of pleasant memories, a duckling paddled
like an unwanted thought of a spring wedding in Brussel.
Flat stones skipped on the pond in the night, quacked 
refused to spit out half-chewed toothpicks...

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