Short Cowhide Poems

Statistical Sunday that starts fights
Along with bringing many delights
One simple cowhide ball
So called centralized thrall
Bringing outward competitive rights


Written for

Sponsor Royal Trevino 
Contest Name SUPER BOWL SUNDAY! **LIMERICK** or **HAIKU**...

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An angered father went for his whip
And son made for a man to him grip:
Ferdinand's sudden timely smart slip;
The cowhide would have slashed his hip!

Now as safe as a bird on a roof,
Father's relaxed grip on whip sound proof
Town send knew the rules and would not goof.
At home he'll change son's right foot to hoof.
"Fine! let him present success savor?
What shall meet him not in his favor"....

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From the science I finally pulled out,
After my homework unleashed a shout:
An All-Times The Strangest Graph; 
To our Physics Teacher, “Perfect Chaff…” 

And it made the poor gentleman weep;
Awkwardly try something like a laugh, 
His skin beginning to creep; 
Tried though he to make it cowhide tough… 

For a whole week, a graph was a secret 
But later alerted the A solemn Staff 
For being humorless evidence quite concrete 
I had a target mi, by greater half....

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The sweet, dead myrrh
of new cowhide
never ceases to please--
it is palpable, tempered,
clay to touch, a naked
casing of imaginings.

We moisten it, make it cool
to cheek, dry it to immaculate
canvas, a pale flesh
of flame and warm breath.

Gently, we mallet it to meaning,
carve it to incandescence,
an unspoken speaking.

It is indigo water
in crackled blue vases
on sun-brimmed afternoons.

It is contentment
of satin skin, beveled roan flower--
a poem at tongue’s edge....

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