Showdown
...Whoa, ship ahoy, girls can play this game.
So we’re not a boy, we’ll win just the same.
Yo, like Hatfield/McCoy, choose sides, your name.
Go balloon convoy, water’s our claim to fame.
Though th...
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Categories:
redeploy, 11th grade, boy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
A Toy Boat Or a Boy Goat
...Sell me a toy boat or a boy goat
Make that one boy goat, two toy boats
No: Two boy goats, one toy boat
Wait. Make it one boy goat named Roy Oates
Ha, ha: Back again with soy oats
Soy oats for ...
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Categories:
redeploy, animal, boat, confusion, silly,
Form: Rhyme
I Love You
...Shades of rufous and crimson oared between the eyes and the mind,
Vestured the feelings that rip the heart as a nagging memory
Overshadowing the pilgrim’s intentions, desires, and dreams.
The peti...
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Categories:
redeploy, lost love, love, lust,
Form: Free verse