Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
...Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
Warning: The following material no worse than getting cooties. I remember them way back in grade school, whereat everyone ran away f...
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Categories:
rock candy, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
my angry teeth
...When I was a child I ate icicles
I broke some teeth.
No biggie.
When I was young I ate peanut brittle.
I ate ribbon candy.
I ate hard rock candy.
I thought I would have teeth forever.
I ha...
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Categories:
rock candy, me,
Form: Free verse
Gumdrops and Raindrops Nursery Rhyme
...Gumdrops and Raindrops Nursery Rhyme
Raindrops patter in such sweet, sweet songs
How I love their song - to sing along.
Jelly beans bloom in the peppermint's lane
Cinnamon bear showers dance...
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Categories:
rock candy, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Scrounging For Boogers Wrought My Damn Nostrils Nearly To Bust
...Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
My humblest apology if the following account
doth gross thee out forlorn childhood of mine
found further ostracization of me tant...
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Categories:
rock candy, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
This Is My England - Food
...this is my England...
fish and chips
(with curry sauce)
pizza, lasagne
and, of course -
Chicken Tikka Masala
with poppadums, pickles
or a beef vindaloo
to open your ventricles.
this is my ...
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Categories:
rock candy, culture, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Even More Buckets to Fill
...He’s driven forty miles of tough love,
Tempted Dead Man’s curve,
Met old Nick at the crossroads,
Felt the black tar burn.
He took two wrongs, made a right,
Circled left on the radio dial,
Ran...
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Categories:
rock candy, allegory, cat,
Form: Lyric
Pain Hurts - Discomfort Is Not Pain
...Hand on the leather,
I held on for the bell,
Sure it was a winner.
I was riding so well,
But then the bull threw me;
Introduced me to the dirt.
Hell, I only broke my shoulder, mama,
How...
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Categories:
rock candy, allegory, humor, pain,
Form: Light Verse
Knife's Edge
...The first steps up the tower were easy;
blue dreams inside red and yellow gummies;
sweet blueberries and sugar to ease a pain.
Mind-painting secret murals on each rising tread
causing need to cli...
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Categories:
rock candy, addiction, dark, drug,
Form: Free verse
Drooling Children and Elderly Sucking On Hard Candies-A Haiku
...wispy afternoon
here our special children drools
on the elderly
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sucking hard candies
each of them young and old all
salivating yum
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from out of the purse
of strange little old lady
sweet...
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Categories:
rock candy, analogy, candy, children, grandparents,
Form: Haiku
In Land of Cockaigne
...'Cockaine' took another slow snort from magic white crystal dust
pleasure inhaled at ease and great vastness for her was a must
with 'Cockaigne' the land of physical comfort and luxury near
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Categories:
rock candy, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Our Secret Hideaway
...Of all the times that I remember
The most memorable….
Was when I was a child!
Spending time with my grandmother,
Who was always fun to be around,
I was never bored because….
There wa...
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Categories:
rock candy, adventure, candy, childhood, grandmother,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Saddest Days
...And there are not enough cubicles and grey paneling that
sugar rock candy lights won’t cut
the sapling eye from its still decline into Abyss.
And there are not enough sad thoughts wars rapes t...
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Categories:
rock candy, death, hope, humanity, sad,
Form: Free verse
Toyland Island
...I'm going to sea in a blueberry boat
Full of bananas and chocolate like an ice cream float
Raising cotton candy sails with my best friend
Picking up speed in the pixie dust wind
Rock candy dolp...
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Categories:
rock candy, children, fun, magic,
Form: Narrative
Souls and Apples
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The apples, scented the kitchen,
Reminding me so much of Eden.
Odd, how we love this fruit!
That stands for ultimate disrepute.
Man's desire to be so dandy,
With souls hard as ro...
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Categories:
rock candy, angst, feelings, god, heaven,
Form: Couplet
Call Me Lord
...CALL ME LORD
The phone is off the hook
Hadn’t paid the cell phone bill
He I see stands outside on the hill
Waving and flagging you down
Asking Lord for you to come on down
Call me on my heart...
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Categories:
rock candy, america, appreciation, caregiving, community,
Form: Lyric
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