Short Phonics Poems

"Kaiser Jeff"


i grew up

(well...........
one hopefully 
never grows up)

on hooked 
on phonics 

and being 
dyslexic 

to too


so it seems to me
that Kyser may
come from
German

descent


i don't know
but i know
he writes
decent

poetry...

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I stand before the closed door hopin;
That it is unlock and that it will open;
Leaving the school of hard-knocks;
~
Racing on the street and around the block;
Breathing air like a heathen addict;
Spitting out rhymes hooked phonics

9/25/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Give me an a. 
Add an N and a G.

Put on a B
Take off the G

Tack on a D.
Toss off the B.

Now you can add whatever letter
you want to the engine.
Sand, stand, gland, rand

Wonder why reading is so complicated?
But why are we not teaching phonics?
I am lying in my veins today looking at this
with concern…...

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blowing
to cool
a spoon
of hot soup
alphabet soup
that is

no punctuation
all capitalizations
worse for learning
from hooked on phonics
cooked
in a tomato broth

randomly stirring
the red faced
surface
of the bowl
an edible 
epiphany

emerges
in bold face
type set
the likes
of being
spelling

I AM...

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As I dance through this life,
I hear many songs.
So many friends speak
of rights
 and
of wrongs.

I hear the phonics of collective beliefs.

When 
I
have set on a new set of streets.

These roads unfamiliar,
yet curious I am
to travel the new way
with my chorus in hand. 

My thoughts are the source of my creation.
and harmony
 is
my delegation....

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Take a ballet slipper full of dancer’s blood,
A broken drop light and a lug wrench,
A Chevy fender splashed with bayou mud,
Your boyfriend shackled to his work bench.
Use a duck tape gag that’s labeled Gator Bait,
So only God will hear his dying wish.
Leave the swamp gate open, pour a drink and wait.
That’s how jealous Cajun women ghoti.
Hell hath no fury like a woman hooked on phonics....

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most folks think
chinese or other
oriental languages
are difficult to learn

but in fact they're
monosyllabic
i love you
wo ai ni 

it's english
that's messed up 
and like a dead fish we
had hooked on phonics that

has made generations
not to know that there
is a difference between
your yore you're 

where wear ware
wore war or
weir we're
and don't

forget
their
there
they're

stupid...

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Her dress was wild with a colorful flare.
Her high heels were perfect as was her hair.
She was my third grade teacher, Mrs. Tee.
She was truly as cute as she could ever be.
When we heard her heels going click, click, click,
We knew our day would be greater, and slick.
She taught us our multiplication table.
Phonics, spelling, whatever she was able.
Mrs. Tee sometimes pops on my dreams.
Teaching me new concepts, busy as she seems....

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