School Riddle Poems

Raising up an old book                    ...

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I was once a powerful tool.
You could find me in every school.
In the 80’s I hung on a stick
I got dropped off like a bundle...

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I smiled, when I went to school first,
And I cried and bloomed a riddle;
Kids asked if it was for my thirst,
But I gazed when girls...

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Second sight in some infants, short tenure belies
Unbiased newness unpicks societal manufacture
To passers by, lurking spiritual assets recognisable
Pervading expression classifies their clairvoyance

Such was toddling dandelion...

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I need my childhood
Where life was good
Small but huge heart
Running to Sunday school
To be filled with gospel
And memorize verses
I love my past

Unfortunately it is my...

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The teacher asked Rosie
"What rhymes with Blue?"
Rosie replied,
"Kalamazoo!"

Mommy asked Rosie,
"What rhymes with Sam?"
Rosie replied,
"Alakazam!"

Granny asked Rosie,
"What rhymes with Snow?"
Rosie replied,
"Kokomo Joe!"...

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I see him lounge beneath the pecan tree, 
nursing his alcohol as he hides from his young cousins. 
They want to play army men with...

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The World Unknown to me

Let me write of things I do not know
underneath the folds of nothing
beneath a fake moon's glow
I'll write about my pretend...

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I am that I am

I am the way to your long forgotten dreams
I have been visited by so many people before you
And shall continue to...

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illanelle: Whose voice so insistent and so early to whine

(I have just found a poem I wrote three days before I was tossed up
and knocked...

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A little boy of eight is so surprised
to see his father at the gate of the school.
His father hands him half a crown and says
he...

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Unquotable quotes – V

Constant dipping wears out the hardest bone.
Out of sight, out of bind.
Too many cooks spoil the school books.
Be a cuckoo and lay...

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D.P. You're Beautiful.
First day of school, first time I see you,
God have you grew in two months who knew,
Such time flies feels forever young guys...

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 Continued from Part 1 

3. TEATIME INTROSPECTION
Amongst the many are the few
who maim and kill and think it’s true
that purple war’s a parlour game
when...

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 I don’t live on the waving sea,
But I wave on land as far as eye can see.
I am the shade from summer’s sun,
The shining...

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