When Soup's Sandbox Becomes a Litter Box
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I took umbrage over a comment in a current blog, in part stating that poetry, "... is a battlefield..." No. There should be no gauntlets thrown, no darts hurled, and no negative words hurled as ...
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Categories:
pollywogs, community, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Toady Sings the Moon
...O, the old toad talks
To the equinox,
But he sings to the harvest moon.
Cuz his little pollywogs
All swam off in the bog,
And they’re getting gobbled up by a loon.
The chance is remote
For a...
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Categories:
pollywogs, nursery rhyme,
Form: Ballad
Govern Or Ness
...New York pollywogs are all wet
Each of them need to see a vet
Now Ida has gone
They're stuck on the lawn
And no one wants a slimy pet...
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Categories:
pollywogs, pets,
Form: Limerick
Loose Magic
...Loose Magic
Pee-a-boo, I see you...
Got your nose,
and not your toes.
Skipping rocks,
and bubbles in the park.
Eye contact from across the room,
notes passed in study hall...
hearts ...
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Categories:
pollywogs, angel, anniversary, beauty, bible,
Form: Free verse
Cry Key
...When Lady Gaga's French bulldogs
Stoked half-a-million squealing hogs
The canine corps
Knocked on her door
With countless tails like pollywogs . . . ....
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Categories:
pollywogs, dog,
Form: Limerick
Frog Prince Chooses
...He is so dapper and dashing! The ugliest dames said.
One of them on board now, as her husband was dead.
One old toad gave her the cold eye and a shove to her head.
These toads in waiting had learn...
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Categories:
pollywogs, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Freddie the Frog
...Okay, I'm unserious today, no...in all seriousity I was daydreaming about bullschitt and wondered if it was 'produced' by bulls or bull frogs or even bull sharks and realized that it was magnificentl...
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Categories:
pollywogs, funny, life,
Form: Quatorzain
She Is My River I Am Her Guardian
...I stand by the river watching her happiness
Her frogs, and tadpoles, pollywogs too
Minnows gather around my roots, tickling me.
My days are filled with pure happiness
Sun rises at my back, war...
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Categories:
pollywogs, tree,
Form: Imagism
They Will Sing
...tiny pollywogs
unique metamorphosis
chirping night chorus...
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Categories:
pollywogs, mystery, nature,
Form: Haiku
A Balm So Smooth
...I’m feeling blue, but that’s OK
For I was there to start the day
But carried forth with steadfast calm
Still searching for a healing balm
I’ve found it but a time or two
And known relief, but ...
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Categories:
pollywogs, blue, hope,
Form: Couplet
The Pond
...early morning pond
young boy wide-eyed-
pollywogs and frogs....
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Categories:
pollywogs, dream, innocence,
Form: Haiku
Pollywogs
...Ten tiny pollywogs
Happy as can be
Along came an alligator
Ate up three.
Seven skittish pollywogs
Beneath a lily pad
Up swam a rainbow trout
They all died sad....
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Categories:
pollywogs, animal, death, fish, happiness,
Form: Lyric
Go On Back
...Go on Back....
Sit among the dandelions
listen to the bees
thank the broken pavement
for the scars upon my knees
walk along three decker canyons
in a sticky August haze
hop within the hops...
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Categories:
pollywogs, childhood, city,
Form: Rhyme
The Fish Are Biting
...In Spring, a plethora of colorful wildflowers begin to bloom in the country. The soil has a rich, earthy smell, for April showers have washed the pungent cow manure deep into the ground to nourish th...
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Categories:
pollywogs, 12th grade, bird, image,
Form: Haibun
Notice the Pieces
...Gander your gazes not afar mountain
like a fool that searches the distinct
Youth that have uncovered a fountain
pen poetry and prose not succinct
When you blue drip only foam oceans
Yo...
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Categories:
pollywogs, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
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