Nursery Rhyme Poems

Janice Avery loved deep green nature; like cherry sunset owls, gawping.
She dwelt with her parents and Sissy, when old, golden days were walking.

They lived out...

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The flowers, the flowers
Will bloom in three hours
I really don't want to wait. 
The flowers will bloom,
If i may assume, 
If they don't bloom too...

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Johnny's parents owned a bakery, selling cakes and yummy confections.
Though only nine-years-old, Johnny showed interest, asking questions.
 
He was soon making tasty cookies, to the...

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Time seems to be picking up speed
a freight train without engineer
Hendrix electric guitar on amphetamines.
Time is picking up speed
children born yesterday
wobbling off to college the...

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Since the elderly king greatly loved music, his court esteemed it, too;
As sun and moon smile on myriad colors, during the butterfly revue.

The king was...

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        Little Miss Tough
        Sat on her duff
   ...

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Jezebel
the racehorse
with wolves
she was found
To run
in the daytime
by moonlight
she howled

Her stable
was cave like
her food
freshly killed
Smart jockeys
won’t ride her
no matter
how skilled

In May
was The Derby
with roses
askew
As trainers
and...

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     Old Joe and Jill went up to Capitol Hill
     Stayed four years, longer than they had-oughter...

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      Mary ate a great big ham
        her gills turned white as snow

...

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A treasure untreasured, abandoned and forgot
In a darkened closet much like a burial plot
Misremembered kisses, hugs no longer felt
Twisting into bitterness, where lonesome dwelt

Memories wrapped...

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Ella Cuthbert lived with her husband John, in an age of twinkling stars;
They had a little dog named Alfie, who loved riding in pretty, swift...

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Mommy
by Sylvia Plath (in her voice and style)

Mommy, your face was a frostbitten moon,
A pale eclipse of warmth I never held.
Your hands were glass, and...

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Polly Pleasance was seven years old, like the decade soon is going;
She had so many pretty dollies, like deep purple pansies, showing.

Polly took care of...

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Goldilocks and the three bears, 
The story is a classic. 
But one idea came to mind, 
What if she was made of plastic? 
With lips...

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Probably occurred about  mid semester in 2018 
Epic perhaps, there was a missed opportunity?
From a challenge contest to pen another poem
But this is stuff...

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