attractive available anguished armadillo
...attractive available anguished armadillo
babbled bold bald badger whose bagpipes billow
Caribbean cardinal carved a curious candy castaway
dazzling daffodils and damselflies dived into last Tuesda...
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Categories:
quahog, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
Description, Dash
...Sun dog, sign.
Belladonna, breaker point, fine wine.
Deign? Design.
Grimace, Guelf, and Ghibelline.
Young? Yes.
Grind gears, golden guess.
Torment?
Foment... Wilt, flower.
Master of Fate!...
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Categories:
quahog, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Quill, Quahog?
...O emptiness of space, thy harpsichords. Whole?
Panels out of place, looking-glasses smashed.
Bitter winds, thy frost. Sickness, dole, O soul.
Chaffy grain beneath the tired thresher slashed.
Turm...
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Categories:
quahog, creation,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Children's Poem VI
...Children's Poems VI
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Springtime Prayer
by Michael R. Burc...
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Categories:
quahog, baby, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Quahog Legacy Unveiled
...Written: June 29, 2023
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Cockle, two hooves clung over a hundred brothers.
You discovered unmatched comfort such as no othe...
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Categories:
quahog, analogy, appreciation, beauty, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Serenading Perspective
...Scanter hours of daylight during fall.
Without your grace, I’d not be here at all.
Lilies can smell dew in the countryside.
Sitting on the green and resting side-by-side.
The Qua...
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Categories:
quahog, appreciation, autumn, encouraging, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Children Iv
...Poems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first...
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Categories:
quahog, child, childhood, children, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Doggerel I
...Doggerel I or Nonsense Verse
A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ dec...
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Categories:
quahog, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iii
...Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-t...
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Categories:
quahog, family, father, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Animal Poems
...Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot."...
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Categories:
quahog, animal, cat, dog, friend,
Form: Limerick
Limericks Ii - Nature and Animals
...Limericks II - Nature Poems and Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that...
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Categories:
quahog, animal, humor, humorous, light,
Form: Limerick
Children's Poems
...Picturebook Princess
for Keira
We had a special visitor.
Our world became suddenly brighter.
She was such a charmer!
Such a delighter!
With her sparkly diamond slippers
and the way her ...
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Categories:
quahog, children,
Form: Verse
The Quahog Clamshell
...the quahog clam shell
for chowder and wampum beads
...Iroquois treasure
8/17/2018...
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Categories:
quahog, native american,
Form: Haiku
Rhyming Words At Play
...Eye, bye, sigh, die, guy, fly, rye, why.
Rhyming words.
I love them.
Tambourine, unseen, too lean, ugly mean,
Rhyming words.
Can’t get enough of them.
Bang, clang, dang, fang, gang.
Boo, hoo, ...
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Categories:
quahog, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Beachside Food and Drink Slinks
...A is for algae, red, green, blue cells, soaking up sun, sliming teeth
B is for bacterial mat, clumping underneath, earliest born, never asleep
C is for coral reef, the place we all find cover or th...
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Categories:
quahog, adventure, animal, beach, death,
Form: Couplet
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