Long Ticky Poems
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Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
ticky, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Bread Is From EarthDeep warm-blooded
Dark brown
Multigrain Manna is from Heaven.
Sometimes,
OK, most times,
I'm not actively building a cooperatively co-invested
residential
and environmental health system,
or even a local family-safe
multiculturally resilient community
Because I am too capitalistically infested
with buying and selling
highest and...
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Categories:
ticky, community, earth, health, home, paradise, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
No Roof For ReindeerNo Roof For Reindeer
The celebrated sailing frog
from Montgomery County
went a courtin, or so the tale iz toad
to a grand ole mansion built around 1910,
and e'en 'pon
being razed ~2012 ah
no foo fighting crash test dummy
(sea...
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Categories:
ticky, absence, adventure, animal, childhood, christmas, crush, december,
Form:
Rhyme
Among An Unnamed Female Person Known Within Mine Black Barbed KenAmong an unnamed female person known within mine black barbed ken
Analogous to black box
holding untold secrets,
(after deadly plane crash
no survivors except
a journeyman foreigner),
I share the following self
introspection with ye dear readers,
which purported hidden truths
might...
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Categories:
ticky, absence, angel, appreciation, beautiful, crush, fate, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
All In the Name of ProgressAll In The Name Of "Progress"
The wrecking ball long since
demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
a once nonagricultural,
pastoral, rural residence,
which soulful yen
I called home while
veritably sequestered, quarantined, positioned...
sprawled atop spaciously shingled roof
countless years (B)efore...
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Categories:
ticky, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Three Blind Mice On DutyWhen I was only two bricks and a ticky high I wrote my first ever treatise
Three blind mice unbeknown to me highly philosophical not just to please
The Gods of poetry duty bound on their quest...
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Categories:
ticky, growth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Well Runs DryCouched in the
concept of a well,
(which supplied the water
for faded glory of "Glen Elm),"
my boyhood...
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Categories:
ticky, 10th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, drink,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Walking Down the Streets of Another Levittown TodayAt one time my neighborhood was new mass-produced little boxes made of ticky-tacky – all looking just the same*
Beautiful affordable, true suburban models, in mid-twentieth century they were truly quite the rage.
But now the...
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Categories:
ticky, america, color, culture, discrimination, environment, old, today,
Form:
Rhyme
What Is Your TemperatureWhat is your temperature?
The doctor asked
During an ordinary visit.
I left the examining room
And walked through
My palace
Skin and hair
Nails and tissue,
75 years of growth.
Ivy wild
as a Venus flytrap
Snaring an insect.
Tendrils curl and cover
Cages of...
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Categories:
ticky, blessing, courage, father daughter, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
Lxii Years Old and He Still Carries a Security BlanketLXII+ years old and he still carries a security blanket
Move over Linus
Van Pelt of Peanuts fame,
cuz yours truly
also psychologically lame
since prepubescence
mine noticeably long hair
delivered inner comfort,
yet found some classmates
calling me "hippy" by name
though other tormentors...
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Categories:
ticky, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Solstice 2020 In Northern Hemisphere5:02 AM Eastern Time Monday,
December 21
Location: 2 Highland Manor Drive
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
40.2562° N, 75.4638° W
Daylight 7:21 am – 4:39 pm
9 hours, 18 minutes
Mine circadian rhythm pulsates bright
imperceptible increments of daylight
increase fantasy fanciful heavenly flight
as I imagine...
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Categories:
ticky, appreciation, celebration, christmas, earth, god, tribute, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
All In the Name of Progress 1st AdditionThe wrecking ball long since
demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
a once rural residence,
which soulful yen
I called home
...
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Categories:
ticky, 10th grade, 11th grade, 8th grade, feelings,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Like a Fire Cat Teaser Taste of SpringLike A Fire Cat - Teaser Taste Of Spring...
Did Fistbump With Ole Man Winter
Once again, this fella alights
this poetaster and trots out weather,
nope not cuz freezing cold bites,
this poetic instance highlights
spate of unseasonably warm temperatures
circa...
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Categories:
ticky, addiction, beautiful, drug, environment, eulogy, joy, romance,
Form:
Pastoral
In the Long Ago & Used To BeWhat do you see when you look at his face
Weather beaten & etched by hard work’s steady pace?
You see a broken down drunken old fool
I see a vaquero, a cowboy old school
These cattle, those horses,...
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Categories:
ticky, cowboy-western, history, nostalgia, people, places, old, old,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Eutrophication of Golden PondFebruary 28th, 1968 marked the date
Boyce Brandon Harris
(my octogenarian widower father)
purchased a small tract of land
Pooh would Winnie
constituting shadowed sliver
once hailing, hallmarking, harkening,
glorious vast "Glen Elm" estate,
which circa 1910...
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Categories:
ticky, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
We DoWe sit
staring at the Sun
wishing you were here
wishing we were anywhere
anywhere but here
We want
for the taste of human desire
salty
sweet and creamy
with the spirit of She
We ride
like crazed urban cowboys
We take no prisoners as we...
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Categories:
ticky, angst, growing up, sorrow, world, dream, dream,
Form:
I do not know?
Sweet MemoriesChristmas time was the best memory under the pine tree.
In South Africa we do not have a snowman and reindeers,
...
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Categories:
ticky, celebration, children, christian, christmas, family, happiness, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Laugh - FivesMoshe, Larry, Curly,
Howls, cries, nyuks;
Three silly comic stars:
Smile, clown -- Cluck!
Chico, Harpo, Benny, Berle,
Moron grins, happy chins;
Crazy nutty comic kooks:
Funny jokes -- egads zooks!
Alvin Ailey, dance gaily,
False teeth: Brush daily;
Silly Sally, Dilly-dally,
Ollie,...
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Categories:
ticky, fun, humorous, nonsense, silly, word play,
Form:
Light Verse
Suburban Summer,
riddles N' rainbows paintbrush the day
summer's heaviness invades
rain circumvents geraniums
ant's N' azaleas dance through sidewalks
where tiny green grass creep 'neath weeds
to see sun seed grey with bright
frogs N' grasshoppers flop...
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Categories:
ticky, community, emotions, family, june, kid, summer, sun,
Form:
Alliteration
Vanilla Is“Little boxes on the hillside; Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside; Little boxes all the same”
from first verse of “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds
Vanilla Is . . .
the typical white...
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Categories:
ticky, emotions,
Form:
List
Love!Love!
Love is a very powerful word that shouldnt be tooken for granted! Love is a
special word that shouldnt be said if it is not meant!
Love!
Love may mean alot of things to many people...
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Categories:
ticky, lost love, love, love, may,
Form:
I do not know?
Remember Only ThisBy the gloating rocks once its refuge,
The sun wallows in scarlet rages;
Glovers at the ticky-tacky cages,
Who feel naught of the coming deluge
From the lurching stream that knows no rest.
Each ripple is a Mont Blanc unsung
With...
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Categories:
ticky, analogy, anger, faith, fantasy, hurt, journey, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
SolitaIf we could go back
into a pale instinct
of flowers and love
and open fields
with sunshine much burning above
And i write so quick
dont really show it to anyone
thousand of poems
building up
like ticky tacky homes
so what...
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Categories:
ticky, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Sweet EarthHow many more springs will be granted.
Springs where seeds and flowers are planted.
How long will the filthy rain sustain the vigor
Of tender shoots so green and innocently eager.
We spew out human seed to take root...
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Categories:
ticky, corruption, endurance, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet EarthHow many more springs will be granted.
Springs where seeds and flowers are planted.
How long will the filthy rain sustain the vigor
Of tender shoots so green and innocently eager.
We spew out human seed to take root...
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Categories:
ticky, earth, earth day, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry