To Be a Good Grandma
...To be a good grandma, who me?
What do I see?
Through rose-hued glasses
or molasses?
For when the kids are very small
to them, I’m tall,
I’m lots of fun;
but comes, I’m done.
Like a giraffe, I...
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Categories:
lots of fun, grandchild, grandmother,
Form: Verse
It's just an Adventure
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looking back to when I was a lad
They said times were hard, They said things were bad.
Picking up tatties, the pulling of peas
Coming back home with scratched grimy knees.
Screwing the Beetroot...
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Categories:
lots of fun, adventure, friendship, fun, growing
Form: Couplet
Fun Fun
...In the thoughts I have of us
We sure have lots of fun
Thoughts of us together
Thoughts of us as one
And in my wildest dreams, I've had
Big ones where snowstorms reigned,
Hot ones where fireplac...
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Categories:
lots of fun, devotion, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Plus Ca Change
...Song: "Yesterday", The Beatles
Yesterday I had lots of fun with Sugar Ray,
Now the neighbors yell out words like ‘gay’.
Oh I believe in yesterday.
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Categories:
lots of fun, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
At the Bobblehead Hall of Fame
...A museum filled with Bobbleheads
Is not your average art,
Although that precisely is the thing
That makes it stand apart.
What started with a giveaway
To baseball fans has grown
To a huge col...
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Categories:
lots of fun, art, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Cutting Room Floor Poems
...Neighborhood Gossip
He walks all alone and does evil things,
quietly making puppets walk without strings.
He's the only one who emerged from the wreck.
When you sleep, he'll stab you in t...
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Categories:
lots of fun, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Little girl
...Poem written by my little daughter
When I go to the park
I climb right up to the top of the slide and slither down quick the other side ..
I swing up high and then down low whirling round ...
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Categories:
lots of fun, child, children, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Just The Way You Are
...Just The Way You Are
We first met so long ago.
Our first date was at Sonic you know.
You were so giving.
You were always patient with me.
I would read your letters.
Next to you, you made ...
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Categories:
lots of fun, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Growing Old Together
...Growing old Together
I’m just a lonely man living out my life.
One day I looked up and you arrived.
Without saying a word, I knew that you were the one.
I could take you out on a date, we cou...
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Categories:
lots of fun, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
A Roach In My Coffee
...A Roach In My Coffee
One morning I wanted some coffee.
I was barely awake, I couldn't even see.
Too early to wake up.
I started my coffee and something was floating in my cup.
It was a roac...
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Categories:
lots of fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Charmed Life part 2
...After we turned from Africa we first lived in Cornwell and I got a job learning to be a riding instructor with Heather Hunt she was a tough lady to work for but her training was excellent I went on t...
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Categories:
lots of fun, fun, youth,
Form: Bio
Torquay at last
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2025.4.18
Easter Friday, a public holiday,
All the shops was closed so as M Central,
There was no piano.
It was fine by me,
I just had to find an alternative.
Yes, I was going to this place...
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Categories:
lots of fun, for her, friendship, travel,
Form: Free verse
My Childhood Friend
...MY CHILDHOOD FRIEND
(by Michelle L. LeBlanc 03/16/2025)
Dedicated to Connie Steeves
Our friendship goes way back
I believe we were in grade 3?
In our brown and beige uniforms
At Lower Coverda...
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Categories:
lots of fun, 3rd grade, friendship, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Canadian Content
...From the mid-1950's thenceforth
to the mid-seventies in the Great White North,
over the course of many moons,
there came from this country some really great tunes.
For those of us young at hear...
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Categories:
lots of fun, history, music,
Form: Rhyme
New Year and new chapter
...For months, a poem was written a day
To serve as keeping my diary.
Wanted to stop at the end of a simple, pure and fun filling friendship.
For a while, my feelings and my writing headed different ...
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Categories:
lots of fun, fate, feelings, goodbye, hello,
Form: Free verse
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