Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top
...Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top...
spry buck analogous to energizing bunny
jump/kickstarted procreation ruckus.
Home on the range
cacophony quite absurd
PlayBoy Bunny herd
and f...
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Categories:
roebuck, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
What's Dead is Dead
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After checking the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs until their pages were torn and faded, we took one last look at the sales ads in the local newspaper, donned our socks and sandal,...
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Categories:
roebuck, poetry,
Form: Haibun
My Childhood Christmas
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The folded corners and wrinkled pages
of catalogs that were tattered and ripped
From the first of October until late in December
we drooled,
we fawned,
we lusted,
we swooned and giggled
mut...
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Categories:
roebuck, christmas, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An Old Shovel
...In 1890, cowboy Bob Womack found gold at the base of lofty Pikes Peak!
In short order a ramshackle town was founded called Cripple Creek.
Hordes of gamblers, 'soiled doves' and prospectors hopin' t...
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Categories:
roebuck, fate, humorous, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023
...I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023
Unseen enemy invades my body
with platoon of green berets air
rating, and enfilading immune system viz
Hib bully knock and sock kin me
c...
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Categories:
roebuck, adventure, anger, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme
Harold the Hugh Hefner Carrot Top Buck
...Harold the Hugh Hefner carrot top buck
Ruled his hare'm
nsync with trumpeting Donald Duck,
(loud enough to arouse Daisy),
the former cartoon character,
a pensive searing black kind Roebuck
h...
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Categories:
roebuck, adventure, age, appreciation, business,
Form: Rhyme
For Oscar On His 13th Birthday
...His the archer’s bow, straight his arrowhead
on foot and trail swift as the running deer,
and long his hair the eagle feathers spread
in the buckskin war bonnet he does wear.
My boy the d...
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Categories:
roebuck, birthday, son,
Form: Sonnet
A Look Back, a Look Ahead
...French was the international language
Brittania ruled the waves
Sears-Roebuck a retail behemoth
American Indians still called braves
China an enigma wrapped in a riddle
The U.S...
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Categories:
roebuck, future, history, international, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Deer Dear
...settling in forests
deer* and doe freely flourish...
soon, their antlers nailed
*Deuteronomy 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, a...
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Categories:
roebuck, animal, truth,
Form: Haiku
The Birdwatcher
...Once, I was a purple bird
A red bird, a blue bird
A yellow bird, a green bird
Through all those birds
I realized the words
Were simply a display of
My Grandma’s affections
She watched me eac...
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Categories:
roebuck, bird, child, childhood, children,
Form: Free verse
Hank's Scruffy Boots
...Hank rested his boots on the railin' of the bunkhouse when day was done.
The pointy-toes of his scruffy boots framed the slowly settin' sun.
He leaned back in his rockin' chair, his hands embracin'...
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Categories:
roebuck, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Daybreak
...Dawn breaks and soon the light dilutes the dark,
The lazy sun climbs high to make her mark.
Her slow awakening, lighting up the sky,
As tomtits flit and tweet their morning cry.
The crouching p...
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Categories:
roebuck, day, nature, sunshine, winter,
Form: Rhyme
The Christmas Stag
...I am the stag of seven tines
The yule stag
a roebuck in the thicket
I am the ever hunted messenger of life
5 days during the years end I run
5 days the fey door stands open
5 days pursued by g...
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Categories:
roebuck, christian, christmas, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Cowboy Slim's Five-Dollar Hat
...Slim's cowboy hat warn't no fancy Stetson, that's fer shore!
He'd paid five smackeroos fer it in a Sears 'n' Roebuck store.
But it served him jes as well through his cowboyin' years,
Roundin' up, ...
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Categories:
roebuck, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Iamb Beak Peck Tammy Eater
...Every friggin day
mother hen runs amuck,
while all chicken's
beady eyes appear awestruck
drawing particular
agitation, irritation, perturbation...
of Punxsutawney (Doctor) Phil
(well grounde...
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Categories:
roebuck, abuse, father, grave, marriage,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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