Gopher named Ray
...a gopher sat on my toe today
sassy and saucy, his name was Ray
What fun do you have? The scamp asked me
I rocked my toe, so he could see
Do that again, he goaded me
I teeter-tottered him to my...
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Categories:
scamp, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Destiny, the final milestone
...
My sizzling heart failing around the clock
No light colliding with the dark to spark
But essence dying passively through the dim
Dream's wall burning by the fire of terror
In a second, a sharp ...
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Categories:
scamp, destiny, feelings, imagination, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Bloody gifts of resurrection
...In midnight gazes call me sullen upon my cheek
Rousing replies risen bound by chains
Lest mercy be tallowed by all frays
Lest my cheek rise by an untimely hour
Rid my face of discoloured honour...
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Categories:
scamp, depression, imagery, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Nicholas, My Clever Grandson
...The joy of birth, the growing up,
leads us to adore our lovely babies.
But not, alas, without the toils of life.
Because we experience a lack of sleep,
contend with baby vomit,
or idiotically pu...
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Categories:
scamp, grandchild,
Form: Free verse
Please don't leave me I love you
...He reignited my creative passion when he reentered my life
His can sense to the core how I am feeling and asked me right away to be his wife
Though it's been 45 years we have known each other and...
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Categories:
scamp, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Cher
...Cher,
Love everything about her, especially her hair.
She sang about a scamp, a camp and a bit of a tramp.
She’s a V.A.M.P. Vamp....
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Categories:
scamp, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Back To the Future
...Let’s bring back the GOOD OLD DAYS
Grab that washboard and some lye soap
Hang those wet clothes on a limp rope
Chop some wood, build a fire
The kids new swing a worn out tire
Park that car...
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Categories:
scamp, america, irony, satire,
Form: Couplet
Ever Since I Experienced Being Significantly Monetarily Sidelined
...Ever since I experienced being significantly monetarily sidelined...
(how about that topic for a change of pace?)
Yes back to getting walloped, decked
and clubbed courtesy cold hearted brute,
w...
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Categories:
scamp, absence, abuse, angel, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Reason To Boast
...Delay by Him has taken its toll,
Waves of doubt rollover the soul,
Despair extinguished the Spirit,
Wax-filled ears would not hear it.
"Listen, you have left My way!
Wait for My providence and...
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Categories:
scamp, anxiety, bible, faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Shaggy Dog Limericks Iv
...The Labradoodle
It’s clear that the scamp is a Poodle
By its frolicsome dabble and doodle
But add a big part
Of the Labrador’s heart
And you’ve got the whole kit and caboodle
The ...
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Categories:
scamp, animal, cute, dog, funny,
Form: Limerick
Ode To Summer
...Farewell, au revoir, goodbye, convivial summer.
The day is late now, and the breeze is warmer.
A vacant ocean-side barricaded motel.
Wild geese are soon flying in lines as well.
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Categories:
scamp, analogy, appreciation, beauty, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Life Could Not Be Better
...You came into our lives a spark.
A blur of chestnut red,
Igniting us with canine love,
And nestling by our bed.
Chasing swallows in the park
That teased you in their flight,
Relentlessly ...
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Categories:
scamp, dog, friendship love, pets,
Form: Rhyme
October
...October enters on a chilly wind that chases the leaves and whistles 'round eaves.
Catching coat tails and hats it whips them away like a rascally scamp at mischievous play.
Harvest is over and the ...
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Categories:
scamp, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Self Centered Diabolical Scarlet O'Hara
...Fiddle Dee Dee Scarlet says when asked to nap with the other girls
I want to party she argues, dancing with her feet, her hair in curls
She sneaks down to where the men are and takes Ashley off
Ex...
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Categories:
scamp, books,
Form: Rhyme
Indices of a Loon
...GOODLUCK
Gutless muffled monarch wooed millions to the poll,
Oozing pathetic speech of poverty (I once had no shoes)
On congruent grounds we let him, though we hate...
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Categories:
scamp, abuse, africa, confusion, corruption,
Form: Burlesque
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