Short Rhode Island Poems

RHODE ISLAND

small,
needs 
little 
poetry...

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the biding time of......
the bride of,and man flower
the power of,people...

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A noisy, Rhode Island Red rooster
Awoke, from his dreams, Simon Schuster.
Simon got mad as heck
And adjusted Red's neck.
Now Red doesn't crow like he uster....

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I say...I say
that 
college boy
up yonder
with
them
college books
over there
ain't
smarter
than
a 
ten watt
lightbulb
said
the
Rhode Island Red Rooster...

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•	Connecticut
•	New Hampshire
•	New York
•	New Jersey
•	Massachusetts
•	Pennsylvania
•	Delaware
•	Virginia
•	North Carolina
•	South Carolina
•	Georgia
•	Rhode Island
•	Maryland

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"Shine my boots, wench!" Larry said
"Fetch my wine and cheese and bread!
Tidy up my murphy bed! 
Feed the hog and Mr. Ed!
Corn mash for Rhode Island Red!
Why look so gobsmacked by dread?
Did you not say I thee wed?"
"Oh, I said it, until dead"
I confessed, then bashed his head....

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Beyond the gates,
Where the old bakery stood,
Was a memory of cold hands and 
The saving glittering gems of the jelly doughnut.
Then late for practice and asthmatic from suicides.
My mother's voice calling in the wind.
When is it all reconstructed the right way?
Under what gray moon do things flutter with meaning
As deep as our bones?...

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I tried to thank Lisa Ricci for her friendship ... Cybermonsters ate all I wrote.

So, to recap:
Lisa Ricci Ricci Ricci
Namasthe Namasthe Namasthe
ShalOm shalom shalom
I'm rich with l. Ricci as penpal
From Rhode island to south Africa
Despite the miles, years fewer smiles

NOTE: this PS site now gavectwo copies if the above post. I deleted one,OL! COMPENSATION?...

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Thousand utensils
cookie crumbles on the floor
Enough garbage to feed Rhode Island
Relaxing sauna for dead poultry

Cookie crumbles on the floor
Each lunch lady’s ear is in tune with the system
Relaxing sauna for dead poultry
Keeps it fresh

Each lunch lady’s ear is in tune with the system
Enough garbage to feed Rhode Island
Keeps it fresh
Thousand utensils

(2007)...

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“Please use it in a sentence.”
“We live on the Chicago consonant,” the eighth grader said, proudly.
“Do you know what a consonant is?” The teacher asked the student.
“Sure,” he said, “Like Rhode Island, right?” His classmates nodded.
The teacher sighed.   Un-learning is so much tougher than learning.
On a happier note, she was grateful that she was the English teacher,
Not the geography teacher....

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Revenge is the best
For the Dead-To-Pity Pest:
A Rhode Island Red
I could west on its bed,
It calmly tracing to its nest
To violate its accustomed rest…

For a bird, The Willing Pest,
Wait at its sighted nest;
A real Murderous Guest,
Plain Horror as my quest…

For the unstoppable pest
Be deceptively dressed:
Preferably in a Jesus’ Vest,
Never acting The Much Stressed
And a Rhode Island slash its crest…

For harrowing stories in East and West....

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"A rooster crows,
How does it know

The sun is about to rise,
Everyday like exercise

Maybe it’s an inner clock,
Or prompting from a hens cluck

No matter the case,
It’s time for today’s embrace

Announced by this flock,
Who needs an alarm clock

If I would be as punctual as this bird,
I would achieve more than I deserve

For I would be one step ahead,
Thanks to a Rhode Island red

So enjoy your head start,
And this day, you will outsmart."...

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Personally I don't like the way he gets up 
Every morn sqawking, strutting his stuff around, don't like, yup

Ring leader in the morn with his self-centeredness
His behavior exudes narcism and great abrasivesness

His neck stretched, chest extended, muslces flexed ready
This Rhode Island Red crows from dawn 'til sun up and steady

  

Sponsor: Sheri Fresonke Harper
Contest: Personifying Science
Written: 09-26-13

A form of Poulter's Measure 
Written in rhyming couplets...

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