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Premium Member My Pet Poems, First Dog, Blake
Pet Poems, First Dog, Blake

No matter, of course, how many times I asked,
The answer came, “No!”  Thus,
At age 9, at the start of summer, I searched
Our not especially well-kept house and yard
For every scrap...

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Categories: wastebaskets, age, dog, friend, life, love, time, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Color Outside the Lines
Color outside the lines


Coloring outside the lines
Not at my school
Nuns frowned on that;
Skirts above the knee
No way
Not at my school;
No gum, no pens,
No make-up
Not allowed-uh-uh
Not at Saint George School;
Memorize your verses
Three a night
Don'miss a word
Mistakes...

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Categories: wastebaskets, anger, feelings, growing up, , atheist,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Cosmic Joke
A design of
never-ending procreation
with genes that in the end
become petroglyphs on walls
or words in wastebaskets.

Rationalization's for meeting
the Unknown are
all the accumulations for survival
that become lost in a Great Reality:
I am dying.

No need to add cancer...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wastebaskets, death, mystery, nature, cancer,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs