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The Beaver and the Eagle

...“Hi Eagle, loonie for your thoughts?”

“Hey Beaver, what made them choose you for a national animal?”

“I’m a symbol of perseverance and strength, persistence and hard work, eh.”

“Oh I see, I ...

Categories: loonie, silly,
Form: Free verse

Reality Show Caricature Norms

...some may remember the
long past remainders of old
early twentieth century years

wars and depressions wracked
cultures to the ground and people
shared with poor hungry strangers

most workers...

Categories: loonie, adventure, community, humor,
Form: Free verse

Go and Stretch a Puppy's Tail - With Apology To John Donne

...Go and stretch a puppy's tail,
    Get with rice a manioc root,
Tell me if sun will buy moon a veil,
    Or to who he gave her leather boot,
Teach me to hear coyote’s singing,
Or to keep off dru...

Categories: loonie, humor, parody,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Lock Him Up

...A Canadian since birth so it shouldn't matter
But the loonie down south deserves life in the slammer
What are they waiting for
He's a festering sore 
Lock him up before more laws he can f...

Categories: loonie, anger,
Form: Limerick

Social Catfish Com Area-Code-Information Christian, Humor-Crime-Rap, Crossover

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Eh? woke up
this Thursday morning
with my finances
shaking the walls

some nice hoser lady
had given me a call

and left a message
right on my phone

she talked
also, ...

Categories: loonie, corruption, education, giggle, international,
Form: Lyric

The Loonie's Last Reckoning

...It was late in the afternoon
Of the 17th of January 1993
That my whole
Intoxicated universe
Finally exploded
                                                              
Drink me one day = 10...

Categories: loonie, addiction, england, january, london,
Form: Free verse

Dreams

...Dreams 
On holiday within a
dream,
we sometimes get the
horror scene,
where 50 swingings
of the axe,
cut off your legs,
stumped around in
fact,
some payment here is
seen?
So je...

Categories: loonie, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Canada Eh

...Ocean Falls, B.C. has on average
Over 300 days of rain a year
Surely not somewhere I'd want to live
Many attempt suicide I hear

Canadians have a funny habit of
Ending each sentence with an “...

Categories: loonie, pride,
Form: Quatrain

Haiku Two

...His neck cocks forward
lonely voice reverberates
The first Loonie Tune


SKAT's any Haiku will do contest....

Categories: loonie, nature,
Form: Haiku