My Junk Drawer Explained in Rhyme
...My mingle-mangle mismash mixed bag of stuff
Is a pastiche, potpourri, patchwork of remnants rough
The accumulation of this junk was not so very tough
Feather dusters, ink wells, rulers, silver lin...
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Categories:
potholders, women,
Form: Monorhyme
Twits Terrible Nitwits
...past knoxville and idaho city there are a pair of adorable nitwits.
townspeople refer to them as kooky oddballs, a couple of twits.
their name is easy to learn. she is backward ditz; he is fritz.
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Categories:
potholders, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Please Stop Bringing Me Gifts
...I was running out of potholders; and I had bought them for me.
But people kept bringing me stuff, and I wanted to reciprocate.
Some of the candy was stale, but I still had to act appreciative.
Rig...
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Categories:
potholders, friend,
Form: Light Verse
The Yellowed Potholder
...Oh wait dear tiny black grumpy termite
Listen to my forgotten yellowed tale
Before you ruin my faded crease with a bite
How this perky white became so pale
Little Tommy had been to a huge fete
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Categories:
potholders, yellow,
Form: Rhyme
Pinwheels and Potholders
...While gleaning yesterday from today
I found an old friend, dusty and chipped,
back in the day we weren't just directionless kittens
but "budding" congressmen, doctors and convicts...
sitting aro...
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Categories:
potholders, drug, education, youth,
Form: Free verse
Not That One
...Not that one she said. It is my favorite.
He stops sorting and looks at her hard.
I thought the purple checked one was your favorite.
She nods her head.
Why don’t you let me sort these? He sugg...
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Categories:
potholders, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Potholders
...P retty sitting on the hook all ready to be used.
O ven hot and waiting to see you.
T he fabric can be cloth or yarn to make you strong.
H old your shape washing after washing.
O n call w...
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Categories:
potholders, funny, humorous,
Form: Acrostic
Forever Memories
...Time-worn and hanging there, for many years,
next to the newer, thicker, standard ones-
it stares at me and stirs fond memories
of how much joy it brought to her back then.
With large green eye...
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Categories:
potholders, happy, memory,
Form: Blank verse
Too Many Suspects
...Libby Lou was a professional intermeddler
She had her hands in all most all of the towns people’s pots
Adding carrots and potatoes to some, digging tomatoes out of others
Criticizing the amount of...
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Categories:
potholders, humor, humorous,
Form: Prose Poetry
Be Home By Dark
...Bicycle tires spinning, carefree with no helmet —
The nineteen-sixties, the neighborhood is our space.
In Summertime, the playground’s a haven with friends —
Sunny smiles, weaving potholders and...
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Categories:
potholders, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
'twas the Day After Christmas
...'Twas the day after Christmas and all was not well.
Even the resident mouse dare not stray far from its cell!
The family was snowbound due gale winds and snows.
Each tread lightly to avoid steppin...
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Categories:
potholders, christmas, day, family, funny,
Form: Rhyme