Animal limericks and non-limericks
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This morning, my yard was hopping
with squirrels and rabbits busily shopping
for pine needles, berries, and cones,
perfumes, oils, and sweet colognes,
to entice partners for this...
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Categories:
orangy, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Orangy Sunset
...orangy sunset
the shades of yellow and red
neat wonderful sight...
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Categories:
orangy, beautiful, sunset,
Form: Haiku
Crossroads
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Crossroads to where life began
Fear of dark cold round me again
In the twilight before the morn
Scattered grass iced, forlorn
Silence in the air ash orangy dawn
Fire burnt out like clouds in...
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Categories:
orangy, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Keepsake
...Tell me that you've felt a failure
In doing what was right
While pillows dampen, salted
In dying sleepless night
A wonder, wonders bless the wicked
And the same thing in reverse
Ensure the gnar...
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Categories:
orangy, angst, anxiety, betrayal, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Rainbow Lady
...RAINBOW LADY
(Life begins at forty... Walter B. Pitkin)
Yes, if you believe in miracles.
If you take lows for pinnacles.
I will turn the page tomorrow,
sign a fresh lease come what may,
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Categories:
orangy, 2nd grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Fat and Skinny of If
...The Fat and Skinny of IF
If I were fat I would wish to float
As a cloud in the evening summer sky
With the approaching of dawn's light beaming about
It's rays like flashlight beams all aroud m...
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Categories:
orangy, abortion, dream, feelings,
Form: I do not know?
Halloween Partytime - Contest
...clink clunk the bones go clank
hanging there from the curtain rail
large pumpkin and shaping knife ready
it will be a great party time, without fail
when you enter the room you need to
swish s...
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Categories:
orangy, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Tsunami Sunset
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Orangy red horizon
Below earths blackened ceiling
City lights sporadic
Patterned like a starry sky
Distant lightning illuminates
Like dancing strobes
Momentary live
The black retu...
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Categories:
orangy, imagery, poetry,
Form: Verse
The Changing Sky - Contest
...Stand still, look to the skies
every second the pattern changes,
watch the clouds sail past
being blown by the winds of time.
Colours change, from the dark
cloudless sky with stars atwinkling,
to a...
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Categories:
orangy, change, sky,
Form: Verse
Orangy Pink Lava Flow
...Undulations on the horizon
Leave a most beautiful sight
As their outline becomes clear
Whilst the sundowns at night
Above these darkened ancient
Are different colours of cloud
Their beauty quietly s...
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Categories:
orangy, nature, places, beautiful, beautiful,
Form: Quatrain
Heavenly Colours
...Just awake curtains drawn, I view a scene beyond the glass
The colours that befall my eyes are nothing more than class
There are greys and blues with purple twists like a carpet in the sky
With...
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Categories:
orangy, faith, natureme, sky,
Form: Couplet
Beinn Nibheis - Scene 2
...Gravity enters my thoughts, what ever goes up has to come down. As i start my descent from
the summit of this giant of the Grampians. My journey down is so different to the ascent.
Clouds build for...
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Categories:
orangy, animals, inspirational, nature, places,
Form: Free verse
Cobalt Blue Sky
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Cloudy cobalt sky
Orangy horizon glows
The sea mirroring
http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/nature4.php...
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Categories:
orangy, inspirational, nature, sea
Form: Haiku
Tsunami Sunset
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Orangy red horizon
Below earths blackened ceiling
City lights sporadic
Patterned like a starry sky
Distant lightning illuminates
Like dancing strobes
Momentary live
The black returns
Nat...
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Categories:
orangy, nature,
Form: Free verse