Lunch Break
...For 8x5 contest , sponsor Joseph May. Posted 16 February 25
Lunch Break
Tomato and cheese
On rye if you please
Not from the deep freeze
I like a fresh roll
It comforts my soul
Lettuce...
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Categories:
madge, food,
Form: Rhyme
Bins
...Mr Bell, it’s Julie from the council, you appear to be inundating our help desk with phone calls, are you alright?
No, Julie, I am not alright. I have seven bins in my garden, and for some reason, y...
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Categories:
madge, community, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Neighborhood Study Group
...An interesting neighborhood study group
Full of old men and women who often snoop
One had left to take a dainty poop
Leaving the rest of us twisting into a loop
Toilet paper! She yelled with a ...
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Categories:
madge, age,
Form: Monorhyme
Madge Made Her Way
...Madge chopped her hair good and short.
Some thought she was her brother, Mort.
Twas true Mort made fifty percent more pay.
So she posed as a man that very day.
No one bugged her for dates any m...
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Categories:
madge, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Planned-Demic
...Planned-Demic
No work, no play, even dogs don’t stray
And you can forget your paltry pay
Off to the supermarket by half past five
An early start might keep you alive
Buying things, you never b...
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Categories:
madge, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Old Tv Commercials
...There was Louie the fly
Who’d want to fly by
There was Madge who
Soaked your hands in Palmolive goo
There was the Rolladoor song
That Geelong supporters sing along
Your Mum Mister Sheened your ...
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Categories:
madge, technology,
Form: Ballad
The Christmas Bench
...THE PARK BENCH AT CHRISTMAS
she shed first her hat, gloves and scarf.
later her glamorous coat, leggings and shoes.
she snatched off her dress to catch the eye,
then brassiere and panties but n...
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Categories:
madge, humor,
Form: Free verse
Madge
...madge and palmolive
manicure
in green gold
posted on June 30, 2018...
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Categories:
madge, beauty, green, woman,
Form: Haiku
Iron Cafe - Part 2 of 2 Parts
...Minuette had the complexion of a porcelain doll with a touch of cherubim thrown in for good measure. Her desire, her passion in life was to discover and taste new salty rocks and stones. Nothing gave...
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Categories:
madge, adventure, food, identity,
Form: Prose
A Vegetable Matter
...Grandpa’s a gem in the garden,
tending his sprouts and his peas,
tomatoes and onions and cabbage,
his ‘caulies’ and his broccoli’s.
I have seen plenty of gardens,
chocked full of bountiful gre...
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Categories:
madge, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Country Worker
...A Country Worker
Watching grass grow, seeing paint dry, doing the dishes
Are mysterious consuming matters since Madge moved on
Grass grows a little slower, decays
Paint peels and flakes through...
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Categories:
madge, absence, age, identity, image,
Form: Free verse
Madge
...We held the hills together
Like a little nub of pencil
Then we fell apart
To write our disparate lives with each broken heart
I read your story in shady nights
Under bare breasted street lights
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Categories:
madge, teen,
Form: Verse
Reprising
...Madge, do you sometimes sit down and hear
The songs that winced across your fence, do
Think of the desert place our childhood grew up
Drinking those songs like anesthesia, old
Things now, but lasting...
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Categories:
madge, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Boris Watch Out For Squirrel
...There once was a gal from motor city
who drove a Prius to give her celebrity.
Her guy drove a Ford
and cursed her “Oh, Lord!”
Their divorce was a forgone necessity!
Their children, a boy and a...
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Categories:
madge, adventure, animals, funny, imagination
Form: Limerick
List Adjustments
...Jason grab the fleece
Set it squarely under there
While Murray tightens the girth
Madge how many tries does it take to put on a bridle?
I don’t care if the nose armor’s low
So long as it’s strai...
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Categories:
madge, history,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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