Curtains-not for contest
...On a ship
Poet (Po)
Reason (Re)
Po: Look at the billow of the sails,
the sea, its black and blue hails.
Re: I’ve seen it before, even now and again.
I miss the pines outside my ...
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Categories:
scrubber, anxiety, music, scary, sea,
Form: Verse
Truth In the Hiatus
...Today, the sun shone brightly over our shores.
Peering over the forest and meeting the cores
We share fundamental truths across the waterways.
across the grasslands, then onto the Hima...
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Categories:
scrubber, analogy, change, community, life,
Form: Rhyme
Time Ebb and Flow
...How vast and pervasive is the Moon?
Hugeness hints there stand two
Orbs and a turbulent stream
Simply like the dawning sun
All over the half-moon horizon.
On the shore of credulity...
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Categories:
scrubber, adventure, destiny, dream, moon,
Form: Free verse
Pantyhose Stress
...Dedicated to My Son, The Bedtime Kissy-Keeper Giver
Like a virgin to stressed messes surging,
I struggled with bridges on parental ridges
when I wore both mom and work bri...
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Categories:
scrubber, angst, caregiving, children, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
The Scrubber
...He's your rip current -always will be
dragging you into deep water
into the foam of his death ego roll.
Squeezing the spirit and mind
pulling you into his cold dark beak
scrubbing the light from...
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Categories:
scrubber, adventure, blue, boyfriend, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Express Owl
...There's a shilling in the cellar
There's a killer who's a sham
There's a miller with that feller
In a dilly of a jam
There's a tiger on the telly
There's a Schweiger in a pram
Have some jelly f...
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Categories:
scrubber, books, cheer up, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Gina the Toilet Cleaner
...They call her big Gina
You'd know if you seen her
She is a toilet cleaner
She wears a white smock
Armed with bucket and a mop
She likes to keep things clean
And is a real scrubber
If you know ...
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Categories:
scrubber, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Re: Johnsons Antidote
...re: Johnsons Antidote by Banjo Paterson a great poem.....
Yes Good morning sir ...maybe it just worked for old goanna:)
We in the 1950's used condys crystal jammed into the snake bite aft...
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Categories:
scrubber, adventure, old, old,
Form: Ballad
Ode To Brenda
...Brenda is pretty, Brenda is sweet
She’s not very big, in fact she’s petite.
Brenda’s creative, now that’s a surprise
She has a good wit and has opened my eyes.
She’s cruel to a point,, my blunder s...
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Categories:
scrubber, friendship, funny,
Form: Ode
Aussie Blue Heeler
...Ryan Jackson
Contest Name Animals on your mind...
Aussie Blue Heeler
Seen em strike, brown snakey type,
When cattle dogs are near,
Seen the bite cut off the hide,
With bloody sheep shearing shears...
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Categories:
scrubber, adventureblue, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Grandma's Bathroom
...Fragile paper, white and quite a shaper rolled into a round
On a rod of plastic, tumbled gently draping to no abound
In the toilet room; a violet bloomed where stray peddles were found
Upon the wi...
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Categories:
scrubber, childhood, family, children, life,
Form: Free verse
Examples of Green
...The color of money, the muck in a stream;
There’s the color of envy, for the things that you’ve seen.
Green in the gills from dangerous pills;
Green scrubber pads that clean up the swill.
A...
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Categories:
scrubber, funny, life, people, green,
Form: Couplet