optimistic polliwog
...optimistic coral youthful polliwog
sat on the verdant fern in the bog
rain dripping off his smooth leaf umbrella
he is such an enterprising fella...
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Categories:
polliwog, animal,
Form: Rhyme
The Devil's Polliwog
...As a carefree youth, I did roam,
'til I took this thing home.
'Twas in a puddle by a log -
the devil's polliwog.
To you, I will gladly confess,
it made my life a mess.
It never turned into ...
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Categories:
polliwog, animal, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Vexing Amphibian
...Oh, the vexing amphibian -
from the Nile or Caribbean.
Is it a toad or a frog,
a tadpole or polliwog,
a newt or salamander,
crocodile, alligander?
Oh, the vexing amphibian -
from the Nile or...
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Categories:
polliwog, animal, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Things I'll Give Up for Lent
...This poem is not meant to offend anyone or belittle their beliefs. This is only my attempt at humor.
~Things I’ll Give Up for Lent~
Liver and onions,
Minced meat pie.
Drinking beer from a can,
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Categories:
polliwog, humor, poetry, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
Farcical Fancies
...Farcical fancies,
Woodland rhymes,
These are not just
For bedtimes!
Farcical fancies,
Wait and see;
You’ll repeat them
Back to me!
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Woodpecker, really,
Won’t you hush!
By now, a...
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Categories:
polliwog, nursery rhyme, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Seeing Green
...Yoli, woli, polliwog
How do I look to a frog?
To me, he’s green
And I am white
But perhaps to him
It's the oppo-sight...
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Categories:
polliwog, 1st grade, animal, child,
Form: Rhyme
Embedded Springtimes
...Perhaps we all secretly long
to be embedded in perpetual spring time.
My most entertaining pre-pubescent memories
of spring's most sacred times,
when occasionally left
to my own leisurely adv...
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Categories:
polliwog, community, earth day, engagement,
Form: Political Verse
A Fox Was a Kit
...A fox was a kit and a dog was once a puppy.
Don’t throw a fit, but a fish was never a guppy.
A horse was a colt. And a hen was always a chick.
How about banana split’s scoop, could we call it a l...
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Categories:
polliwog, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Surreal Nature
...Sitting by the Klamath River in Northern California, watching as it endlessly
makes its way around the bend, searching for the sea. A "wild river' it is, one of the
few left untouched by dams and the...
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Categories:
polliwog, nature,
Form: Haibun