Poop On a Shoe
...My boys got dog poop on their sneakers
On their way home after school.
Their friends were beside themselves with laughter
And the boys were feeling quite the fools.
But they were determined to ge...
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Categories:
scrub brush, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Corpse
...THERE as still and quiet as dead.
Sleeping...?
Yes.
The walls had grown used to the scene. The dreams tired of the same actors with different faces.
The dead take care of their own.
T...
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Categories:
scrub brush, allegory, anxiety, death, fear,
Form: Free verse
Heavenly Cats
...HEAVENLY CATS
cats sizzle with top hats and canes.
ties spinning.
the feline’s tail held extra high.
whiskers whisked clean
with scrub-brush tongue.
black cats outlined in the astrologica...
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Categories:
scrub brush, animal, cat, child,
Form: Free verse
My Silver Captain
...MY SILVER CAPTAIN
Oh his lips, at dawn
a brandished dark-brown moustache.
touché!
~
And when we’d been together
as man and wife,
for a measure of time,
the upper lip ~
a sc...
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Categories:
scrub brush, husband,
Form: Free verse
A Midcentury Memory
...I can still feel my finger slide across the chilled glass panes of our kitchen window.
The simmering warmth of my grandmother’s stew against the freeze of a cold winter’s morning, gave birth to a fu...
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Categories:
scrub brush, childhood, memory, morning, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Home
...Winter morning light filters through lace curtains,
Reaches down, spills onto the corner kitchen sink,
Through east and south facing windows.
The glass jar, the scrub brush and pad in plastic butt...
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Categories:
scrub brush, age, blessing, dedication, home,
Form: Free verse
Little Santa Helpers
...Little Santa Helpers
Santa has outsourced his services to child labourers from Bangladesh they
fit zero-sized through chimneys much easier and the leaner they are the
be...
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Categories:
scrub brush, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Mending Fences
...I've been mending fences. It's a long ride down a straight line. You can't do this kind of work unless you have the strength and the spirit to live with solitude. There is nothing out here but scrub ...
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Categories:
scrub brush, courage, forgiveness, loneliness,
Form: Narrative
The Ghosts In the Darkness
...Two majestic lords of the African Savannah,
Strike without cautions warning, or roar's announcement.
Nomads, prides outcasts, existing on the fringes edge of
Survival.
Instinct's primal predator...
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Categories:
scrub brush, adventure, africa, animal, cat,
Form: Free verse
Awakening
...The snow drifts to the ground
soft as babies breath
talcing the bottom of the farmer field.
The bows of barren maples brace
for the downy white.
Heat held in the asphalt
melts the first dusting,
its...
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Categories:
scrub brush, inspirational, life, nature, snow,
Form: Free verse
Ma'Am
...The Webb’s my second Mommy and Daddy of the year ; It’s only June
Mr. Carver, the social worker rambles on as we pull into the driveway
My five year old eyes open wide as I see the giant mansion...
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Categories:
scrub brush, childhood, family, sadhumorous, me,
Form: Free verse