Pinkie Rang the Bell
The hummingbird
Came to feast on my vermilions
Filled my heart with joy ‘til
Pinkie rang the bell.
About the time all is well
A solution is in sight
The future looks bright,
Pinkie rings the bell.
Pinkie’s bell is not so loud
Sometimes it is silent — remember
At your church and school,
Work and neighborhood,
Family gathering and vacation,
Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas and reunion
When things looked
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Categories:
pinkie, bullying, judgement, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Pinkie Cat
Pinkie Cat was more than a teensy tiny bit fine
She was the ultimate pink-a-lated pretty feline.
She upgraded and uplifted our old folk congo line
Dancing her two-step self, with a glitzy shine.
Pinkie Cat was the ritziest cat we’d ever seen.
She danced her tail off and threw off a sheen.
We toms watched, thinking she was pretty keen.
She
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Categories:
pinkie, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Pinkie Raised, Chin Aligned
I dance in my mind
glass slippers trail behind
Twirling pirouettes
tea and crepe suzettes
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Categories:
pinkie, dance, fantasy, image,
Form: Couplet
Pinkie Promise
The sticky summer heat lingered on my skin,
Much like your hand on my leg.
As my feet swung back and forth, I tried
Not to look at you.
My twin size bed couldn't fit the both of us, yet
You sat. I thought I saw something in your eyes,
And by saying nothing, you knew
I said everything
Mute words fell upon
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Categories:
pinkie, child, child abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse
Pinkie Marries the Faerie King
Pinkie was a fluffy butterfly kind of faerie.
She was free spirited with a beautiful soul.
She cared about everyone, and they knew it.
People gravitated to her as if she was cotton candy.
When she got married she invited the entire village.
There was no exclusion. She put an advertisement in the paper.
Everyone is invited, she told them. You
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Categories:
pinkie, fairy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Watch Your Winkie
This poem is for Pagunda Zahid who asked me
Write a poem before he is reluctantly, thrown out,
A spoiled brat who’s lost his best teddy,
Sure he’s plotting to make trouble already,
An impolite, jealous, trouble making annoying fool,
Trying his hardest to overthrow the winner, not cool.
Accusing the election of being fraudulent, how dare he
Lost his balls,
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Categories:
pinkie, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Pinkie
Pink as a baby’s bottom.
Pink as 1960’s Bazooka Bubblegum
Pink as Barbie’s Dream House
Pink as a 1959 Cadillac with chrome tailfins.
Pink as a perky, pretty, popular, pizzazz-y petite preteen.
We nicknamed her “Pinkie” which made her laugh.
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Categories:
pinkie, girl,
Form: Free verse
Pinkie Swear Ii
A boy can drop everything for girls, his initial joy,
kissing lips, most now only playing, quickly run,
some take upsets very weakly except you, Zebulon.
~//~
T he little boy always brought his toy truck
H e had many kinds of toy trucks to share
E very day she would come to the park
B ringing her dollies with their
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Categories:
pinkie, lifelost, lost,
Form: ABC
Pinkie Swear
T he little boy always brought his toy truck
H e had many kinds of toy trucks to share
E very day she would come to the park
B ringing her dollies with their golden hair
I n the age of pureness of five and four
R easoning of nannies who watch this pair
D oes not include what children talk
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Categories:
pinkie, childhood
Form: Acrostic
Pinkie Finger
when i was drunk i rang you and you didn't pick up your phone.
i came to your house and bashed the door until my
knuckle bones ripped in two. my fingers were
ripped from my palm from trying to reach you.
i left my pinkie finger in your post box.
when you found it in the morning
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Categories:
pinkie, angst, confusion, devotion, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?