Onomato-pea-a
...I’m Onomato-pea-a
The window is my home.
I love the sounds of cooking
At day, at dusk, and dawn.
Mom clomps into the room
And clicks on every light
The curtain whooshes open,
I wake up, “No ...
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Categories:
plonks, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Summoning the Spirits
...In the heat of the Mohave desert
Drumming echoes build
In unison to my heart
Pumping and pounding
Faraway chants introduced
In some unknown native tongue
Rhythmic and nostalgic
They draw eve...
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Categories:
plonks, anxiety, deep, emotions, grief,
Form: Free verse
Japanese Scout 1942
...Japanese Scout 1942
Oh yer poncing on Kokoda and you see a little Jap,
Like a Rabbit with the Myxo, he dunno where he's at,
So he plonks at you with bullets, per Arisaka gun,
5 shots a...
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Categories:
plonks, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Stream of Music
...STREAM OF MUSIC
Tuning up and sounding a bit cacophonous
Like an orchestra as I enter the hall -
Until I identify each instrument, and all
Begins to seem just right - euphonious.
The splat o...
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Categories:
plonks, music, river, water,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Paladin
...Enter Contest
Sponsored by: Michael J. Falotico
Paladin, have gun would travel,
The wrongs he’d sort, to unravel,
Fortunes soldier, no armour for him,
Didn’t need the judges gavel,
just a...
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Categories:
plonks, adventure
Form: Rhyme
Driven Crazy
...Driven Crazy in 41
You were there in forty one,
When Australia it called,
King an country it was fun,
Adventure it enthralled.
On a hill in Syria,
Death was to be denied,
French Foreig...
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Categories:
plonks, adventuredeath, death,
Form: Rhyme