The Optometrist
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A husband and his wife
at the optometrist:
“Well, now,” says the doctor,
“which of you has the eye sore?”...
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Categories:
optometrist, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Hooray for Captain Spaulding
...Hooray for Captain Spaulding...
though he played only a cameo role
helping me secure corrective eyewear I sport
mucho gratitude to all parties involved
including the missus,
cuz she needed to ...
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Categories:
optometrist, 2nd grade, adventure, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Will wonders never cease!?
...Will wonders never cease!?
Alternately titled: Last of the fluff
belonging to a Mohican
Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe.
Any resemblance between said unnamed individual
and living persons ...
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Categories:
optometrist, absence, adventure, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
Eye Hear What You're Saying
...My Optometrist told me to blink
This may not be as bad as you think
With his light turned on high
He let out a big sigh
Said it looks like your eye's in the pink...
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Categories:
optometrist, angst,
Form: Limerick
Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall
...Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall
After descent of eventide
luminescence of freshly fallen snow
still illuminates the terrestrial firma bright
even upon the onset of dusk,
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Categories:
optometrist, appreciation, break up, celebration,
Form: Free verse
He Never Needed Glasses
...HE NEVER NEEDED GLASSES
As he grew older and older…as it sometimes does
his vision began to fade…it wasn’t as clear as it once was.
The optometrist fitted him with glasses…and the moment he pu...
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Categories:
optometrist, age, love,
Form: Rhyme
Loose Words
...Words get lodged in teeth.
A dental hygienist
has actually extracted a few.
Like bats words hang
from the roof of my mouth,
their subsonic squeaks
jiggle its epiglottis
like a witch doctor’s...
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Categories:
optometrist, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Are Bats Blind
...Must see an optometrist next week
Not saying I'm blind as a bat, but bats see better
The tiny type on TV... forget it
Don't know why they bother
Might as well be greek as far as I'm conce...
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Categories:
optometrist, eve,
Form: Free verse
Stray Words
...Words get lodged in my teeth,
a dentist has actually extracted a few.
My optometrist
wears her glasses like lingerie,
invitingly, and for a reason
known only to my libido - most sensually.
She ...
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Categories:
optometrist, poetry,
Form: Free verse
You Can'T Make This Stuff Up
...I watched a ballplayer
wave 'Hi' to the
cardboard cut-out fans
propped up in the stands
At first I thought
It's time to find
a new optometrist
Then I remembered
This year
Ev...
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Categories:
optometrist, baseball, today, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Loose Words
...Words lodge in my teeth.
My dental hygienist
has actually extracted a few.
They hang like bats
from the roof of my mouth.
Their sub-sonic squeaks
jiggle my epiglottis
like a witch doctors ...
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Categories:
optometrist, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dr Blindedme
...Dr. Blindedme by James Edward Lee Sr.
Optometrist
Poked patient
In eyes blinded
12/06/17...
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Categories:
optometrist, abuse, adventure, caregiving,
Form: Senryu
The Penny
...The Penny
At the Dollar store.
“Excuse me,”
She said
As I got into my truck.
“You dropped this.”
And handed me
a nondescript penny.
I thanked her
And drove away.
Only in Myakka Cit...
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Categories:
optometrist, culture, fate, humanity, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
Elly May
...ELLY MAY
poem by: Maria Williams
T'was the night before her birthday and Elly May
Still in the office putting stuff away
In her horn rimmed glasses and grey flannel suit
She was the epitom...
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Categories:
optometrist, beautiful, beauty, body, career,
Form: Light Verse
Snow White 2016- Once Upon a Time
...Once upon a time
In a vast kingdom of Modern land
Oddly not in a far far a way suburban
Was there a pretty girl
Prettier than the Venus, some claimed
Softer than petals of rose, maids alleged
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Categories:
optometrist, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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