Hallway
...Hallway
Things the upstairs hallway desperately needs to
make her feel like a
hallway include:
jugs of
water with a
hint of
lemon and
sarsaparilla (yuk!), heads of
asparagus, afros,...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, humor,
Form: Free verse
Who's a Saint
...
I read a poem about
a mother, a saintly mother,
who, with knotted and veined
hands, crocheted blankets
and booties and mittens
for grandchildren,
who made lemonade
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, appreciation, care, family, introspection,
Form: Free verse
There Was Trouble Brewin' In Soup Creek
...As morning glowed pale light over the town of Soup Creek,
Jenna woke with a start when she heard a floorboard squeak.
She raised her gun and took aim at a shadow near the door,
"Hold it right ther...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, poets,
Form: Narrative
Sprilla - Tanka 99
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Rooted for good health
Centuries of healing man
Better skin and joints
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, appreciation, blessing, drink, health,
Form: Tanka
Drinking Water
...Two glasses of water
wait to be touched by hand and lip.
The water itself remembers the taste
of whiskey, sarsaparilla, Fixodent;
the salty funk
of being swallowed down the throat
of one expe...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Found In a Candy Store
...some sarsaparilla please
chilled Death Valley soda pop
fizz with a vintage label
9/19/2021...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, drink,
Form: Senryu
Just Vanilla
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There are flavors from strawberry cheesecake to sarsaparilla.
Thirty-one different kinds of ice cream, and you want vanilla?
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, food,
Form: Couplet
I Wished I Were a Cowboy
...I wished I were a cowboy riding a handsome palomino,
But, I was just a little kid, my sis watching Valentino.
I wished I were a cowboy rounding up the longhorns,
But, I was just a little kid still...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Sister Sarah Sucks
...Sidney spots spiteful sister Sarah secretly sucking
sticky strawberry swirls, and sarsaparilla spirals
Tongue Twister Challenge Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joe Sandler
12/30/20...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, candy, children,
Form: Alliteration
Define A Friend
...A friend instinctively knows how to bend,
and not break, when anger is in control.
A Champagne and sarsaparilla blend;
that can quench the thirst of both heart and soul.
A friend is tet...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, best friend, emotions, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
With Gentlemen Ease
...
In the unforgiving August heat
of a hot Alabama noonday
They sit in secluded shade,
resting in high-back, woven bamboo chairs
on a mahogany carved veranda
Their bodies face outward to t...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, black african american, pain,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Horn Hairy Gorrila Limerick
...Horn Hairy Gorilla Limerick
We were drinking some sarsaparilla
Ran into Hun that they named Attila
Pretended he was a gorgeous man
From each country him they did ban
He had turned into a harry...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Pie Eyed Spittoon
...Out of the west, amide a beautiful sunrise… came a pie eyed son of a gun.
Looking for Armadilly Billy the Sling Shot Kidster… water gun… in hand.
He rode a very slow plug, an inchworm called ‘Giddy...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Attic Journey
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Mr. William Finch had a lot to remember.
What was he doing in the attic in late November?
Wondering about his antics was his wife Cora.
William was covered with the scent of sarsaparilla.
He...
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Miss Monkey Manners Iii
...Dear Miss Monkey Manners, I am writing to you out of desperation,
It seems that I may have a problem with excessive perspiration.
As a lowland gorilla I live in regions of extreme heat and humidity,
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Categories:
sarsaparilla, funny, old, old, silver,
Form: Light Verse
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