Winter
...I ll sing a song of Winter gales
its got us in its grip
everything from storm to ice
A Magpies solitary glance is all we need
The grey sleet
beating over hills
crouching for shelter
where th...
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Categories:
nursemaid, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Wall of Monkeys
...emissary from the great beyond
slapping faces for fun and profit
me too tie my shoe then cracko
blindsided until there ain't no blindside
but I thought we had an agreement
just another saw blade...
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Categories:
nursemaid, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: Nothing Human Insect Bird Animal Is Not Woman
...Villanelle: Nothing human insect bird animal is not woman
Nothing human insect bird animal is not woman
E'en animals lock horns to deserve right to propagate
She's Man child daughter mother s...
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Categories:
nursemaid, abuse, earth, heaven, mother,
Form: Villanelle
Serving Her Majesty
...monarch lays her eggs
the milkweeds her nursery
and I her nursemaid
MagiCicada 17
*Doubly blessed, another female Monarch visiting my m...
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Categories:
nursemaid, appreciation, baby, butterfly,
Form: Haiku
Chameleon
...Hie, little girl, run from the fear,
'til you find the next nest to change.
And avoid all the mirrors that reveal your truth,
as the chameleon you'll elicit your range.
Is it lover you need,...
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Categories:
nursemaid, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Funny Alphabets For Kids
...FUNNY ALPHABETS FOR KIDS
A to Z, each is an alphabet
Twenty six letters in the set
Arits ate Apple, Almond, and Apricot
Brown Bread, Butter, Biscuit Boug...
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Categories:
nursemaid, cheer up, children, nursery
Form: Acrostic
Free Lunch
...There’s no such thing as a free lunch
Waiter, hurry up with that brunch!
And tell my nursemaid to wax my toupee
Oh, barber be careful when you shave
You can’t have healthcare and your cak...
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Categories:
nursemaid, political,
Form: Rhyme
Never Ending Circle
...Upon the icy back of winter she rides unnoticed, like your shadow in midday sunlight
She bides her time while secretly infusing warmth into the frozen earth below. Like a Nursemaid she feeds and nur...
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Categories:
nursemaid, nature, seasons, rain, earth,
Form: Prose
Exclamations of the Perfect Child
...Goodness Gracious!
My classmates are all hot messes,
They all managed to get cookie crumbs
all over their dresses,
They have warped into little monsters!
Attacking snacks as if they were Edward ...
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Categories:
nursemaid, children,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Bees Knees
...Humble,bumble bee
One season's life,fly free
Working the summer scene
Unless crowned,as May Queen
Sometime cousin cuckoo,comes to stay
Her offspring eggs to lay
A nursemaid,then,Spring to...
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Categories:
nursemaid, animals, nature, seasons, cousin,
Form: Couplet
Nuff Is Enuff
...A friend asked if I would write in protest of the drivers from old Mexico.
For what ever good it will do here I go.
It is not just the drivers that are taking over the good ole U.S of A.
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Categories:
nursemaid, hope, political, time,
Form: Narrative
This Is a Place To Live
...the lake sits glassy and smooth
songbirds of noon
have long since retired
in their place sound shrill chirp
squawk and croon
faded peach and blue,
diffuse light yet left,
spread the...
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Categories:
nursemaid, life, nature, philosophy, places,
Form: I do not know?