Long Whiffle Poems

4/20/24


The truth not fictional
If you don't get the principle
Then it's not clearly visible

No it was not biblical
Or mythical

Zero to do with being political
Yet they'll treat you like a criminal
Making themselves look cynical

By being analytical
As well...

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The challenge was to add one stanza into the sponsor's poem. This was my favorite one that he showed. I have italized the last stanza to show it is the little part that I added...

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(first 9 stanzas by Charles Messina, Sponsor)

As I'm looking through my window 
And I start to l look around
All the snow has melted 
I see toys left on the ground
 
A basket ball, a whiffle...

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KID GAMES BACK WHEN


Outdoor activities were once a staple
For children wanting to be a bit playful
This was way before X-box and Nintendo
We ran, jumped and learned how to throw

Could you ever forget Red Light/Green Light?
A...

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As I'm looking through my window 
And I start to l look around
All the snow has melted 
I see toys left on the ground
 
A basket ball, a whiffle ball 
A glove and baseball bat...

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As I'm looking through my window 
And I start to l look around
All the snow has melted 
I see toys left on the ground
 
A basket ball, a whiffle ball 
A glove and baseball bat...

Read More

As I'm looking through my window 
And I start to l look around
All the snow has melted 
I see toys left on the ground
 
A basket ball, a whiffle ball 
A glove and baseball bat...

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The morning sun peeks in my window

as I feel a tug at my feet

how could I not smile

at that little sheepish grin

Easter morn has arrived

He is risen

and so shall I

Pitter-patter across the worn pine floor

giggles,...

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Well-established wonder-stricken wayfarers will work with wizards,
who worry worm-eating warblers will wander by with Wyandottes.
Witchdoctors wallowing with Weiss beer will widen willowy wonky
widow’s walks.  Who? What? When? Why? Why not?

Wonderful wearisome woolly Willies whose...

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Brown black centipedes crawl from within the white washed walls  
Their shadows, creeping and quick, are cast througout the halls  
Echoing thoughts bring a crashing sound to my ears, clattering  
Music buried...

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In 9th grade Mr. Adams told our class 
(with buck shot in his eyes) 
"That one day life will scare the $hit out of you".
Well, we all giggled like little barn owls - 
Didn't really...

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A whiffle ball flew into the calm air
Over and above the peaceful lake there
Losing its strength it fell onto the pond
And then allowing a ripple to bond

The ripples moved on across the calm lake
Moving bugs...

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Bitty birds scuffle and flounce
under the roofed-in.
Barn dusted, rafters crust and whiffle.
Snuffle go the whiskered,
the mousy muzzle's
all along the bent beam wood.
A pepper powdering
in the chink-lit sunbeams.
In this his tumbled castle-keep
youth sky-larked a being
a ghostling...

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Throw it, roll it,
  Bounce it, pass it
Dribble it, bobble it
  Kick it, toss it, miss it

Pitch it, hurl it
  Heave it, sling it
Fastball, slider
  Sinker, knuckler, curve

Underhand, sidearm
  Overhand,...

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