Three Firemen
...It is late at night- we three sit alone-
That is my two brothers and me.
We hear sirens- and automatically think-
Let’s play firemen.
We put on our gear and head towards the fire-
It’s cold and...
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Categories:
plunk down, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Muses and Personalities
...I confidently plunk down a sentence.
Trixie smacks my fingers. Too blah, too trite, too common.
My confidence rears up, angry at her critique.
Who made you the boss of us?
My other personalities...
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Categories:
plunk down, muse,
Form: Free verse
Petsmart Stratagem Employed To Generate Business
...Upon Googling Petco
regarding purchasing gift card
for eldest daughter
(she tends two beautiful female felines)
Petsmart website appeared right and center
innocuously distracting purported inten...
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Categories:
plunk down, animal, appreciation, cat, creation,
Form: Free verse
When I Am Old
...When I am old I will plunk myself in my wheelchair and wheel it as hard and fast
As I can to the end of the pier.
I am not telling which one.
It is none of anyone’s business but mine.
We will ...
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Categories:
plunk down, death, nonsense, philosophy,
Form: Epitaph
Benediction To My Deux Daughters Verse Number One
...(Thy lovely lasses unwittingly
unstintingly unexpectedly
taught me selflessness)
Every Holiday time each year,
a rocketing increase asper
doling out Uriah Heap ping
largesse imposed upon ...
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Categories:
plunk down, appreciation, creation, dedication, encouraging,
Form: Ballad
Super Bowl Sunday
...It’s Super Bowl Sunday;
Get ready to party.
Have plenty to eat
And prepare to drink hearty.
It doesn’t much matter
If you are a fan.
Just turn the game on –
That’s the start of the plan.
Plunk down...
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Categories:
plunk down, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Rain
...I like the rain
And its effortless thoughts
That plunk down on plastic furniture
Sleeping cars
Grimacing pedestrians
Interrupting your Sunday hair
And how we scatter away
In our silly way...
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Categories:
plunk down, nature
Form: Free verse
A Daughter's Tribute
...Upon the day when I was new
You held me at your breast,
And from that day love did accrue
For both I do attest.
You brought me to a place unknown
With slates of painted wood,
Where cheerful c...
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Categories:
plunk down, daughter, devotion, love, mother,
Form: Rhyme