Reason To Drink
...Miss Maribel Seward had an odorous pet skunk
She developed an allergy to the way it stunk
The antidote was pricy
It was pepper and spicy
But Miss Maribel could not smell it when she w...
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Categories:
seward, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The Midnight Sun Belongs To Alaska
...The midnight sun belongs to Alaska
where children play and parents
lose all sense of time until fatigue
reminds them it it is time for shut eye
as they call it a night where dusk is
is a golden ...
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Categories:
seward, moon, nature, repetition, sun,
Form: Prose Poetry
Glaciers Are Weeping
...For thousands of years, ice giants were sleeping.
But now, these dense “blue ice” glaciers are weeping.
Warnings that in many ways bear repeating.
Global climate change speeds glaciers’ retreating...
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Categories:
seward, emotions, environment, green, imagery,
Form: Personification
A Book of Pictures
...Kathryn, I was watching an antique show on TV. A woman was showing
a book of pictures she had found in her mother's basement of house she
had died in. It contained Lincoln and Vice President with...
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Categories:
seward, allegory, analogy, history,
Form: Couplet