Short Beady Eyed Poems

The Power-to-be
  likes to decree
that red is green 
  and vice versa

The audience rapt
  sucked into his trap
They wildly applaud
  a beady-eyed fraud...

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Rodents that stealthily invade a home,
Agile and able to crawl through tight spaces.
Troublesome pests that chew holes and leave droppings,
Scurrilous scavengers with beady-eyed faces.

8/23/13
For Andrea Dietrich's Four Letter Word Acrostic contest....

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I am squirrel, watch me stroll.

I scurry to my left, and strut to my right.
I shimmy, shake, and go.
Nature is my dance floor.
My moves are crisp.
Elvis & M.J. toss over in amazement.

I'll drive you nuts searching crazily for them.
Beady-eyed, and bushy tailed.
I'm watching you. And your watching  me.

Me and my brethren, we run the streets.
Brown, grey, copper, and more.
We're a polychrome of nature dwellers.

We are squirrels. Watch us stroll....

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