January Monorhyme Poems

   Bone-chilling cold for a week

      Sun won't play hide-and-seek

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In our phonetics class of tongue-tasking
Students delight in pronunciation basking
Musk is distinct against mosque… just checking
And musk differs from mask; that’s so striking!

With definitions for...

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Before, I was curious of my existence-certainty
As my soul sought for eternal security
To overcome feeling of being empty
Since I must admit burdensome iniquity
Imprisoning me around...

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I drew this sad pencil drawing when I was feeling down
It's the way I picture myself, the vision of a gloomy clown
Messy hair, bulbous nose,...

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The antique piano stood proudly in the hall,
Its crackled mahogany veneer, aged by law
The ivory keys were broken, I can still recall,
Badly out-of-tune, unfit for...

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*Image of Mom Playing at the Church by Family Photo

Pride of Place

Our matriarch, a great musician of sorts,
The piano, her centerpiece, she supports,
Coaching youthful kids...

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I used to tell my mother earnestly,
“come to my place to live with me”.
She always said, “I will, when I’m free”,
she went instead to new...

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My heirloom- finest work of art

my mother crafted with her heart

after I drew it by a chart

on linen cloth stretched for the part

of filling in...

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Bob holds his tattered Travis to his chest.
He was Bob's pet. Now--stuffed--he's still the best!
Bob’s parents, at wit’s end, make this request:
“He’s old. Let him...

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How we spend our time says so much
Working, playing, musing … as such
I tend to spend mine yearning to touch,
While avoiding the bane of unwanted...

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She’s a stolid sentinel standing on the rugged knoll
Standing silently, alone, like an old, weathered soul,
Over many years she has seen taken a dreaded toll
Many...

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On horseback, he seemed taller
At 6’4”, he wasn’t really smaller
Than those who wore a white-collar
Going through life to make a dollar

In the picture, he didn’t...

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I came to live here when I was a brand new bear,
and shared a room with a little girl with long hair;
it was a...

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I am one woman band 
With a white Roland brand 
Grandiose though not grand 
Attuned to my command
Performs under my hand 
So here is where...

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Mum's snap beams on the hall as a nudge of eagerness.
The serenity of the shore sparked glorious heedfulness
Yet when I deem warily, truth seems to...

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