Pickle Balls and Paddle Bells
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~ to the tune of 'Jingle Bells,' please ~
Tushies slide, what a ride
slipping on the ice
All we need’s a beaming bride
and a few bouquets of rice
Where’s the gro...
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Categories:
screecher, christmas, silly, song, word
Form: Lyric
The Screecher of the Cemetery
...The screecher of the cemetery:
You fly in between the headstones
And hide away in the bell tower
When the dawn comes.
You know the names of all who are dead—
At night, you call to them softly,
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Categories:
screecher, animal, death, grave, life,
Form: Free verse
Horh Haiku For Pickleball Fans
...For My Pickleball Fans
Lost all of my luck
Behind net pickleball stuck
My game ran amok
you should see his serve
seems to have much swerve and curve
while with vibe and verve
hard to und...
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Categories:
screecher, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
We Dont See
...We pray to the honor tree in hopes we will gain some of its beauty, the gaunt and shaking world tends to aurify is edges.
We see his amort body a relic, sad for once a bel esprit.
We refuse to perc...
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Categories:
screecher, absence, childhood, community, confusion,
Form: Free verse
August Moon
...Sleeping through a sturgeon moon:
Plump with caviar roe, green like corn,
swollen with grain, full and red burning,
squinting through forest fire,
pigeon-holed by sky and telescope,
barked at by...
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Categories:
screecher, august, conflict, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse