A Forty-Niner Named Wiggins
...The word of discovery of gold in '49 in Californy raced across the nation!
Why, it was said you could fill a bushel basket full with little botheration!
This appealed to a young feller in Boston to...
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Categories:
niner, humorous, western,
Form: Rhyme
A Mess of Pottage
...Automated Daily Warning
Satellite Sentinel One-Niner-Three
Geo synchronous orbit
Pacific-Med-Atlantic contiguous sea
Sunspot activity forecast
Will deplete Ozone layer more
Than level original...
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Categories:
niner, environment, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Rock 'N Roll Pilot
...Kick the tires, light the fires, now I’m off and on my way
To different lands on foreign sands although my mind is far away
Back to the time when I was nine or so, guitar thrust in my hands
And fr...
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Categories:
niner, flying, guitar, music,
Form: Free verse
Lady Familiar
...Now...
Metaphors dance in my mind
and there's a word I'm hoping
to find, a line familiar as
"I want you to be mine."
Relying on the fact that
poetry hasn't failed me yet
I hope you approve th...
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Categories:
niner, grandmother, religion,
Form: Free verse
Reminiscing What a Big One
...Reminiscing
Sitting here the sky is grey
Contemplating what to do today
I’ve read some poems this morning anew
They made me think of when I was with you
The love we sh...
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Categories:
niner, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, words, me,
Form: Light Verse
Captain Calamari of Space Rangers
..."You will NEVER win the Spaceman Of The Year award!"/"I will SO!"/"You haven't the
love of humanity for it!!!"/"Get OFF my spaceship!"....Any form is acceptable.
For Matt's contest poem to movi...
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Categories:
niner, science fiction
Form: Narrative