STAN THE SQUIRREL
...STAN THE SQUIRREL
In Texas, there lived a squirrel named Stan,
with his six-gun, he defended the land.
He challenged coyotes to duels,
and outsmarted the loca...
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Categories:
scampered, 10th grade, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
My Always Inner Voice
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I walked past headstones old and crumbling and others newer,
past decaying flowers and planted flowers and fake flowers:
while hidden birds sang me a symphony and squirrels scampered,
and th...
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Categories:
scampered, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Respect from the hawks
...Near the yard, I heard the mother bird's loud cluck,
A signal to pull a sly trick on the hick.
Yuck! Her chicks all ran wild and scampered amok,
Scattered by the bumpkin swinging a big stick.
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Categories:
scampered, anger, bird, confidence, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
When
...I said…
In time, when my hair has gone wispy and grey
When my youth like my hairline has scampered away
When my joints creak aloud any time that I move
When my musical taste isn’t quite in groo...
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Categories:
scampered, age, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Let Me Be Weak in Your Arms
...{"Hands reach out to my entire entity as in response I thrash against my restraints, the ambiance I sucked in suffocated my lungs, and the smoky brume in the enclosure made me convulse rearwards and ...
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Categories:
scampered, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
chipmunks
...footprints on front porch
little paws scampered away
uninvited guest...
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Categories:
scampered, animal,
Form: Haiku
Dog Days of Summer
...Alice Hubbard's home was not ever cluttered, like azure roses, in rows.
Full of sun, the panes were never shuttered, typical where love grows.
Alice was fondly called, 'Old Mother Hubbard...
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Categories:
scampered, color, dog, fantasy, food,
Form: Couplet
pink teapot is angry with her
...Blue-haired faerie Frisky had fallen into a land of weird.
An angry teapot was the one giant thing she feared.
He was irritated that the dress she wore, washed in Tide
Was the same exact color as ...
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Categories:
scampered, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Mouse Story
...the rain water inundates my home,
and one day almost killed my little one,
had to carry him across to a dry ledge,
and this is the story, every rain.
Kind sir, I said to the big mountain,
sinc...
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Categories:
scampered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Hungry Stones XIV
...At this very moment coolies screamed, ‘train',
We scampered packing up our bags and bales,
A long-awaited train’s a certain bane,
But this one turned a boon, such were the tales,
An English g...
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Categories:
scampered, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Narrative
twitchy
...Fear not, doubt's dark whispers,
embrace the testing ground.
We face the same old existential dreads -
the unexpected twist, the vague essay prompt.
Genial birdsong mocked our anxious morning...
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Categories:
scampered, friendship, school, student,
Form: Free verse
A Mouse In the House
...I walked into my closet last week
dressed in naught but socks and underwear
I bent over to pick up my boots
surprise-- a furry creature was there
So I yelped and jumped back a few steps
I’ll s...
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Categories:
scampered, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Fox
...I saw a fox today,
And all because there was a delay.
I was waiting for the early train,
And the fox appeared through the misty rain.
Fox jumped down onto the opposite track,
And off it scam...
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Categories:
scampered, animal, fun, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Whale Senses Something
...She came up from the deepest depths of the Indian Sea.
Feeling summoned by a spirit that was wild, zany and free.
A clipper ship was on the top of the waves, but she let it be.
Trying to discern w...
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Categories:
scampered, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
zingereedee
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a dog named zingereedee
announced his dislike for tea
unuse to such talk
a cat on a walk
scampered high up a tall tree.
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Categories:
scampered, abuse, anger, animal, cat,
Form: Limerick
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