frowny
...It’s a dark and cold night. Looking back and up, the moon
was a thin and useless crescent, barely visible.
‘What a wasted moon,’ I thought.
“A stupid moon,” I mumbled to myself as if to finish a c...
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Categories:
pogo, drink, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Throw Blanket
...Throw Blanket
My throw blanket has
gone of to
France by way of
pogo stick.
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Categories:
pogo, humor,
Form: Free verse
Love Is What We Share
...love is made of brick-and-mortar
love is hopping on a pogo stick
love consists of bits and pieces
love is a jigsaw puzzle in a box
love is joy and laughter
love is a ride on the Ferris Wheel
lo...
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Categories:
pogo, imagery, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide
...neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide
rather yours truly doth thrive
on keeping the ethos, mythos,
and pathos of Pigpen alive
subjected to eternal
abomination, brutalization,
condemnatio...
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Categories:
pogo, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Steakknife of Despair
...Stabbed in the heart- I yelled by, a bloody steakknife !
My tutor that worked with Lindsay did squat,
Lindsay centre, filled. me with strife,
Pogo man in a hole,leg chopped,life shot.
Living...
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Categories:
pogo, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Quatrain
Another Nonsensical Tale
..."Balls!" said the umpires
"Strike!" yelled the pins
"Take that!" cried the little girl
who kicked both my shins
And when the green penguin
started dancing a jig
I realized it was high time
...
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Categories:
pogo, fun, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Parade
...Fantasy 2-22-24
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Parade
At midnight dawn my mind escapes parting the stars
Making my way to a summerland torchlight parade
Where grand marshal...
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Categories:
pogo, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
words give me a kick
...Words are fun, they give me a kick
Vomit, pooh pooh, manure, ick!
Some bounce like a grasshopper’s pogo stick
Others are greasy, grimy, slimy, sticky, sick
Z words are rare, as are words that bei...
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Categories:
pogo, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
My Blimp Is On The Fritz Again
...
My blimp is on the fritz again
The hovercraft just popped
I surely cannot take the car
That’s jacked up in the shop
The bus won’t come out to my house
There’s no train tracks nearby
But I...
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Categories:
pogo, funny, humorous, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Dena's Life's Story the Early Years
...We also liked to play on the monkey bars during recess. One day Dena's skirt
fell off and she was so embarrassed that every body laughed at her. Dena
pulled up her skirt and ran for class. She w...
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Categories:
pogo, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Narrative
Clicky Clacky Skeleton Tick Tocks
...big eyed owl
all puffed up
tormented by wind
whistling tree branches
tick tock of clock tower
dog wolfs himself up
identical black cat howlers
tug of war
puffing
spurting
spitting
sneaky...
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Categories:
pogo, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse
Corsets and Candy Cigarettes
...Where are my old white corsets
Right next to your candy cigarettes
Hey! We didn't get today's edition of 'Grit'
It's canceled. They use bad words now like 'Guck' and 'Spit'
Oh, and I can'...
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Categories:
pogo, humorous, nostalgia, sister,
Form: Couplet
Pogo Dog
...It’s magic at mealtimes the way she transforms;
the back legs defy all the physical norms.
She springs into action with vertical leaps;
there must be some kangaroo in there down deep.
She bounc...
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Categories:
pogo, dog, food,
Form: Quatrain
Vodka Plus Essays
...Please Pogo music, wake me up. The night, now reduced to warm laptop light, is inching toward dawn. I pray to the patron saints of writers - is it Neri or Ávila? Whichever is on call I suppose.
“I...
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Categories:
pogo, education, student, teen, writing,
Form: Free verse
Hoppity Hopper
...It seems I really loved to hop around,
to have my feet come off, then back on ground.
I got a pogo stick I used all year
and wore out quickly once I learned to steer!
At 15, I was not the s...
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Categories:
pogo, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
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