The end of my rope
You tied the noose that I hang from
I stare at the writing on the wall
I feel like all the words are written wrong
My feet can’t find the stall
I wish my thoughts would just be gone
I am the rope in which they tie
I can’t seem to shape the future of my life
Got me thinking am I
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Categories:
rhyme sad, addiction, anxiety, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Call 988
When they made Humpty Dumpty
He turned out to be grumpy
Because of his fragile state
He's not to make a mistake
A padded path, made for him
Full of cotton, thick not thin
He must go only this way
He wants the opposite way
But it's dangerous we say
Stubbornly he climbs the wall
We begged him that he would fall
So tethering there he
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Categories:
rhyme sad, allusion, analogy, angst, character,
Form: Rhyme
Hickory, Dickory, Dock Parady
Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck nine,
It was past the deadline!
He missed an interview,
the job fell through.
He fell sadly to his knees,
no paycheck – no cheese.
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Categories:
rhyme sad, animal, food, jobs, money,
Form: Rhyme
Simplicity in Smiles: A Rhyme's Delight
As morning light unveils its grace,
A modest smile adorns each face.
No need for grandeur, just beguile,
A simple smile, a cherished style.
No eloquence in words to find,
Just a gentle grin, so unconfined.
It speaks of joy with whispers slight,
In the dialect of smiles, pure and bright.
A sunlit spark upon your lips,
Igniting joy with playful quips.
Unfussy, potent, this
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Categories:
rhyme sad, appreciation, autumn, day, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Piggy
Oh, the piggy loves you
The piggy loves me
The piggy is homeless,
yessiree.
Give the pig a cookie
Give the pig a bed
Or maybe a sarcophagus,
in case the piggy's dead.
Punch'm in the snout
Poke'm in the eye
Take the piggy home
and dump'm in the sty
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Categories:
rhyme sad, animal, death, farm, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Hopeless Helper
Once upon a time there was a hopeless man, and all that he wanted was for someone to truly understand
He wanted to help in the only way that he knew how, and so he started his quest so that he could eventually take his bow
He promised to heal a broken heart with his love so
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Categories:
rhyme sad, fantasy, heartbreak, irony, love
Form: Rhyme
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:
rhyme sad, animal, death, fish, happiness,
Form: Lyric
The Mystery of Humpty Dumpty
THE MYSTERY OF HUMPTY DUMPTY
Humpty Dumpty was indeed a spy
Whose favorite dish was egg custard pie
He couldn't resist even one little bite
And usually ate a whole pie every night
Yes, he loved egg custard but that ain't all
He loved to eat it while sitting on a wall
Watching the king's horses and all his men
Prance all around
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Categories:
rhyme sad, nursery rhyme, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Julius Jaggery Jones
Julius Jaggery Jones
Had an ache deep in his bones
Sang the blues for nickels and dollars
In mellowest of baritones.
Julius Jaggery Jones
Seated on street cobblestones
Paid his dues in groanings and hollers
Delivering back alley moans.
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Categories:
rhyme sad, depression, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Anyone Find a Bone
His name is Björn and Im here to say he has the biggest brown eyes Ive seen today he lost his bone and feels all alone what a sad day for little Björn
he looks high and low and even dug a hole for his bone to go and looked and looked with all his might
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Categories:
rhyme sad, 1st grade, animal, blue,
Form: Rhyme
In the Bushes
In the bushes lurked a man
Keeping handy
Bits of candy
Luring children in the bushes
Where he hit them,
Scratched them, bit them.
If a man hides in the bushes
Don't go near him
If you hear him
In the bushes with a club
He will beat you,
Cook you, eat you.
This is another unpublished early poem, circa 1969, from the forever-after ongoing
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Categories:
rhyme sad, candy, child abuse, children,
Form: Rhyme
Joe Biddy
Joe Biddy-dee-doe
He didn't know
How careful he ought to be
Joe Biddy-dee-day
Went outside to play
And wandered too near the sea.
Along came a shark
And just for a lark
He ate Joe Biddy-dee-dee.
-1969
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Categories:
rhyme sad, animal, child, death, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Five Fat Porkers
Five fat Porkers
Five fat Porkers, in a Pig Sty
Eating Swill and Cabbages,
Grunting with a me oh my.
One of these Pigs called Emily,
Was taken out one day,
Now delicious rashers of Bacon,
Three cheers and a hip hooray.
Four fat Porkers, in a Pig Sty
Eating Swill and Cabbages,
Grunting with a me oh my.
One of these Pigs called Reginald,
Was
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Categories:
rhyme sad, animal, food, humorous, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
By Valerie Odom
March 5, 2017
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers let him go,
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
My mother told me
To pick the very best one
And you are not it
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
By day I have to put on a show
Just sit and smile and not say no
While they
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Categories:
rhyme sad, anxiety, black african american,
Form: Rhyme