Santa Limerick
...Santa Limerick
I had a dream about Santa,
Which was jolly lots of fun.
The gifts he brought sang fa-la-la
Then jumped off the tree where they’d hung
To raid the kitchen for sticky buns!
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Categories:
oxo, christmas, fun,
Form: Limerick
Cafe of Dreams
...Memories, where and why?
Do we grab them as they pass us by?
Once again, words and scenes
Spark the trail of memories once seen.
Teenagers meet at their favourite café
The owners treat them...
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Categories:
oxo, absence, best friend, dream,
Form: Free verse
Waste At Christmas
...I'm Sick of all this waste at Christmas,
I know what I'm going to do.
I'm going to get all that left over meat
And make a big pan of stew.
So if you listen very carefully,
And do everything I sa...
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Categories:
oxo, christmas, food, fun, winter,
Form: Rhyme
The Shopping List
...It’s all of three feet long, in order it is not,
And then there’s all the other stuff she’s probably forgot,
The first thing on the list, it simply just says, ‘beans’,
Is that broad beans, baked b...
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Categories:
oxo, funny, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Right Next To Me
...Revealing the sweet way you make me feel unique
Intrigued that compassion and empathy I seek
Grazing me with warmhearted...
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Categories:
oxo, love,
Form: Acrostic
Our Dreams
...Our Dreams
Ask yourself; are you happy?
Bad temper indicates something makes you unhappy.
Can you hide your own feeling?
Days after days find you’re conceali...
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Categories:
oxo, love,
Form: Abecedarian
Categories:
oxo, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?
Unopposed Oxymoron
...Unopposed Oxymoron
This poem is light as a heavy contradicting complement
and rhymes with no correspondence of sound sharp at
the cutting horizon’s edge of melting confusing fission
Serious l...
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Categories:
oxo, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
I Love You
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oXo oXo
X----O----X X----O----X
o---My love--o o---I stay----o
X---forever---X---so true---X
o--I want you to know--o
X----I love you----X
o---eternally---o
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Categories:
oxo, love
Form: Concrete