School Rhyme Poems

They were sitting in the afternoon sun …in a field of flowers atop a little rise…
when the daughter asked a question which took her mother...

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Charlie Martin was always fart’n
Thanks to his mama, Mrs. Martin
Beans for breakfast, beans for lunch
Never salt, sugar, or anything with crunch

Baked beans, lima beans, chili...

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(A reflective voice whispers)

In the Dawn of a new feeling of Life, 
Maybe even at high school

Did you embrace one of its golden rules

To hold...

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Mommy, can we have a puppy?
We can name her Haley...
No! I hate the way they smell...
But Mommy, we can wash him daily.
I also hate it...

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I hung out on six avenue and they teased me all the time.
Saying you're afraid of you mom, but I was more afraid of crime.
I...

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Life is a series of circles…each second circles into each minute, 
each minute into each hour, each hour into each day…
Each circle has it’s own...

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In a video for my friend’s birthday,
Her family and pals did record 
Their own message of varied good wishes 
And watching it was her reward.

There...

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Should 21st Century poetry

For the new minds of a culturally bombarded generation 

Be limited from 3 to 7 lines?

Before you answer 

To me personally, even...

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Will Putin listen?

Siberia gulags glisten

Hysteria seeds myopia

Creeds..deeds feeds dystopia

Crimea bleeds...greed cornucopia

Impassioned stock shock rationed

Shepherd & flock fashioned

Russian roulette yet again

Ukraine disdain cam-pain

Vladimir fears

Scurrilous sneers

Mutinous jeers

Career...

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There’s a farmers market near campus.
A young couple has a pizza oven on a trailer.
They make a breakfast pizza - bacon, mozzarella
some egg and green...

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A pixelated egg held in my hand,
A digital life I had command.
Three buttons small, a tiny screen,
A world within so bright and keen.

The beeping sound,...

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We met in school when we were young, 
In crowded halls with chattering tongues.
A fleeting smile, a silent hush,
 You were my sweet unspoken crush.
We...

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I have often witnessed death
though not ever the last breath;

field mice frozen in a jar;
slaughtered lambs in abattoir,
dissected frogs in school labs,
cruel boiling of live...

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They met back in school when perms were in style..
Now they’re fifty-seven and wickedly wild.  
A sisterhood forged in detention and pranks..
Now fueled by...

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The weighty volumes lined up row on row, 
A universe of knowledge waiting to bestow 
Its secrets vast in bindings strong and deep, 
A silent...

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