Getting On A Bit
...Dorian Grey
has lost all trace of his self-image.
Like many elderly male models,
there are now no mirrors in his mind.
Musty images of his centenarius youth
are hid in crusty shoeboxes.
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Categories:
munches, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Butterfly
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As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew
anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue
Lifting her wings she lands on ...
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Categories:
munches, butterfly, nature,
Form: Couplet
Missy Sue
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Missy Sue makes malted milk shakes
and she savors marmalade,
macaroons and snickerdoodles
and sweet souffles she has made.
Sue is messy slicing melons,
strawberries and mangoes too.
Sue mun...
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Categories:
munches, girl,
Form: Alliteration
The Mouse with the Hat
...The mouse jumped
Off the fire hydrant
His hat flies up
Into the distance
He munches some cheese
Spits on the floor
Makes a split
Tumbles over
Laughs in peels
Waves goodbye...
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Categories:
munches, children, youth,
Form: Prose
A Mother's Love
...A Mother's Love
Do you ever wonder at the love Mother's contain in their hearts? What will we not do for our offspring? Allow me to tell you about the mother who gave all for her children…
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Categories:
munches, baby, birth, caregiving, children,
Form: Narrative
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
...Toddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barny...
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Categories:
munches, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Warrior In the Womb
...Oh baby!
Everyone speaks of a mother's prenatal travails
that make you a part of this earth's tales.
But,
No one talks about what hassle you undergo
In your 9-month-long journey when you're ...
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Categories:
munches, child, courage, inspiration, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Watching a Worm
...The nematode, only oms
And then of course, noms
And munches,
without, really
munching much at all.
No teeth.
Ah.
To move in the mulch.
a thicket
of touch
not really
knowing where or,
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Categories:
munches, animal, cute, death, humor,
Form: Free verse
Ice Cream Gran 3 - Testing Speedy
...Watching from the corner, in her ‘Speedy’ ice cream van
While armed and hooded villains carry out their wicked plan
They rob the bank and make off just as quickly as they can
But Speedy does a whe...
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Categories:
munches, grandmother, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Donkey
...Donkey
Pin back your ears
Settle down for the ride
And you'll find a warm feeling
Somewhere way deep inside..
Here is a story
That has often been told
It's full of excitement
and never...
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Categories:
munches, christian, christmas, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Regular Aliens
...Are they horned and screaming?
No, nothing that munches other meat eaters
could rupture light years.
Are they ethereal deities
that live on their own ever flowing nectar,
so far advanced
that w...
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Categories:
munches, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sally the Slow Worm
...In this little rhyme I would like to confirm
I have personally seen in action Sally slow worm
Doesn't move fast as she goes about her day
No other worm like creatures get in her way
Sally lea...
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Categories:
munches, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Say Something Nice My Love
...Say something nice my love
Pass the bread and butter please
Put down the dagger to the heart
A slice of kindness will do just fine
Don't be like the ugly lady in Amsterdam
Yelling at her husband...
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Categories:
munches, abuse, appreciation, family, food,
Form: Free verse
Cross Chewer
...3 black churches
turned into smolder
a flint toothed ogre
munches a wooden cross
in the shadows
of his black soot mind...
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Categories:
munches, dark, heart, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Prize
...The Prize
The bobber floats, but when it dips, my heart skips for hooked lips. The line tightens, the tug is strong, I reel in. The fight is on. It's a tug of war, an uncooperative catch, an unoile...
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Categories:
munches, adventure, animal, fishing, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
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