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Socked At The Hop

...(Lyrics written to the tune of: "That Old Black Magic" *NOTE: Maintain forward tune throughout all six stanzas; last three stanzas don't revert to original tune wherein, tempo change)

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Categories: schoolmarm, appreciation, character, clothes, dance,
Form: Lyric

Veiled

..."Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks,
when she saw what she had done,
gave her father forty-one,
she washed herself from a watered pail,
she claimed their lies an...

Categories: schoolmarm, allusion, analogy, evil, father
Form: Narrative

Happy Ever After

...A fellow moved to Idaho
Perfect place he wanted to go
Bought himself a farm,
Married a schoolmarm
And learned to live with the snow.

written March 10, 2022...

Categories: schoolmarm, happiness, humor,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Carmel By the Sea

...Image of Carmel by the Sea by Pixabay.

Carmel by the Sea

Three-quarter distance to the city
the rose bowl parade's held,
paying a friend another visit
as if the golden gate is no...

Categories: schoolmarm, city, places, sea,
Form: Free verse

Abandoned School House

...On the wind-swept Nebraska prairie sits a building in wretched shambles,
Surrounded by a sagging fence and overgrown with prickly brambles.
It was once a bustling one-room school house, abandoned l...

Categories: schoolmarm, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme

The Schoolmarm and Little Dagon

...Kids say you're bad, "But that's all lies!"
     She stares at me, her evil eyes,
          Ruler taps desk, taps away hard,
               Audacious hands, face that is scarred,
                ...

Categories: schoolmarm, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Couplet

Invertebrate Indecision

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When Miss Doubtfire moved in
to their heart,
she entered dragon tail swinging
Plastered smiling walls of bachelor resistance
got knocked down
at every single candlelight date demoliti...

Categories: schoolmarm, humorous, metaphor, relationship, satire,
Form: Burlesque

Bubba's Away At College

...By Elton Camp

Howdy, Leroy, how’s you and you’rn?
I ain’t seed you since th' baby was born.

Livin’ way up hear in th’ mountain,
Of th’ days I sorta lose accountin’.

Well, Jim, as fur as I ...

Categories: schoolmarm, humor,
Form: Rhyme

The Cowboy Poet and Clarabell

...ClaraBell was the schoolmarm over yonder near Little Creek
Taught the young'uns for more years than she'd care to tell
They called her 'n old spinster, but what folks didn't know
Was that ClaraBell h...

Categories: schoolmarm,
Form: Quatrain

Bubba's Away At College

...Bubba’s Away at College

By Elton Camp

“Howdy, Leroy, how’s you and you’rn?
I ain’t seed you since th’ baby wuz born.
Livin’ way up hear in th’ mountain,
Of  th’ days I sorta lose accountin’....

Categories: schoolmarm, funnyold, old,
Form: Rhyme

Schoolmarm

...She was a mere eighteen when she began her teaching career,
Never dreaming that a teacher's life could be so austere.
The challenges she met weren't mentioned at "Normal School".
She coped, teachi...

Categories: schoolmarm, educationprayer,
Form: Rhyme