OH DEAR I'VE LOST ME SPECS
...OH DEAR! I'VE LOST ME SPECS!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
With a twitch of her tail and a frown,
Suzy scoured the roots and the ground.
“Have you seen my fr...
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Categories:
scoured, 12th grade, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Ground Clouds and Fish Smaze
...A mackerel sky fillets a fish scaled village,
an ear clapping, full sailed, fog
moors itself to the rooftops,
then hides all in a breezeless blear.
Rheumy eyes peep out from nets,
damp noses s...
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Categories:
scoured, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Blackland Prairie
...BLACKLAND PRAIRIE
From Red River down to San Antone,
The Blackland Prairie’s all but gone—
Scoured clean by progress, tilled and torn,
By “civilized” greed, excess born,
A plundered la...
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Categories:
scoured, earth, nature,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Tops
...up a steep and gritty track
reach the tops
wilderness reclaims a verge
of wintery snags
land juts and tilts
hauls out
lays treeless
clumps and hags
pitch up stricken soil
heap their marshy...
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Categories:
scoured, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I've been searching'
...I've scoured t
he earth..And all heavanly realms..Searching
For someone??? Who will really be well? Righteous and
Upstanding its been an interesting stint.' I did find some
Willing..I'd say the b...
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Categories:
scoured, bible,
Form: Didactic
refreshed and rejuvenated Ready to Clean
...Refreshed and rejuvenated, I cleaned my room
Scoured my kettle, tidied up my riding broom
Put spell books in alphabetical order
Rebuilt my back stairs with brick and mortar.
Now I am pooped and...
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Categories:
scoured, women,
Form: Rhyme
Wringing Out the Rain
...A squirrel got into the homestead,
it picked a lock with a dry thorn.
The smell of dank fur clung.
We carried small talk above our heads.
Nothing put away but still dangles.
Denim droops, snag...
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Categories:
scoured, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Journey of Love and Resilience
...In the depths of sorrows,
each time we feel,
clueless about
how bad it's gonna be,
when it hits on another day,
an otherwise pleasant one.
In loneliness,
I search everywhere,
even within
t...
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Categories:
scoured, family, friendship, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Prose Poetry
Remnants of Indifference
...Bits of pieces,
Scattered around,
To pick them up,
is what must be done,
Shifted about,
The broom sweeps,
What left underneath,
Is none of my concern,
Scoured away,
E...
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Categories:
scoured, poems,
Form: Free verse
Keeper of the House
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keeper of the house,
the toilet sparkler,
the bowl pristine
inside and out ready
to be esteemed.
the sink’s polished white,
the grime and dust, binned.
the shower, scoured,
rinsed, repeat...
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Categories:
scoured, work,
Form: Free verse
Shiny Red Shoes
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She was so excited and happy
It was her 5th birthday today
She had a lovely fun party
Lots of goodies came her way
She loved all her presents
But if she had to choose
Her favourite above al...
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Categories:
scoured, child, fear, missing, scary,
Form: Rhyme
A Saigon Story
...
We lived in Saigon many, many moons ago
Of which I have a tale to share
About a pair of my husband boots
His favourites…. the ones he loved to wear
A shoe shiner came to the work office
A t...
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Categories:
scoured, feelings, hope, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Only Ten Shopping Days 'til the Locusts
...
Only ten shopping days ‘til the locusts arrive
What on earth should I buy them
I’ve scoured the stores, and what’s more
Amazon, Tik-Tok and E-bay
But ‘gifts for locusts...
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Categories:
scoured, giving, humor, insect, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Epilogue - A Freezer Mice Adventure
...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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Epilogue
The spaceship’s crew - three man size shrews - paced slowly fore to aft
Stanley...
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Categories:
scoured, adventure,
Form: Narrative
A Mothers Love
...ANZAC Day 25/4/ 2024
This is a true story dedicated to the missing and the families of the missing of soldiers from the wars Australia has been involved in.
A Mother’s Love
Perhaps it was th...
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Categories:
scoured, remember, remembrance day,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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