Short Stoppers Poems

A candle is not a candle
without that string that 
runs inside it
An crystal earing is not 
an earing
without the hooks 
stoppers.
A school is not a school
without teachers or 
students
All things are 
complimentary....

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Chickens

Much better things to use chickens for are: 
waiters, school crossing 
monitors, paper 
weights, door 
stoppers, getting us 
soda cans, handing us 
toilet paper, mowing the 
lawns, changing channels on the 
TV, washing cars, reading to 
us before we go to 
bed.
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The tree frog
Sings really loud songs
It sticks with rubber
Stoppers on any surface
Around__sings the rain
Down onto the ground

When in large numbers
Their singing is a pain
It can disrupt sleep
And they can lie about the rain
Lay those eggs  by the millions
On any water source...

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'Chork' isn't linked to ‘Cork’, the elastic tough outer tissue
of the cork oak used for stoppers or insulation; ‘Chork’ means 
it's an act of making a typical sound your shoes make when you
are walking in them and they’re full of water, as done by teens.
~X~X~X~
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Clem Kadidlehopper had two whoppers,
Two burgers with the works may be stoppers,
Double meat, egg, beetroot, tomato and cheese,
For a burger connoisseur this could only please,
No problem for Clem and his great big choppers.


alternate last line:  Clem woofed them down with his great big choppers....

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Rocky trail
Fallen trees
Fresh scent of pine leaves

Scattered acorns
Wild blooms
Thundering sounds of a graceful brook

Brightly red 
Cylindrical Snow flowers
Show-stoppers for enthusiastic hikers

Chirpy Jays
Traces of wild foxes
Immensity of rocky mainstays 

Spring storm
Shivery gales
Sprays of tiny snowflakes

Wood bridge
Nimble stream
Magic of a mountain climb...

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Yes, Ms. Christy Hardy
is our winner!!!...!!!...
She gets 2(not 1) copies
of Tom bell's poems...
(double door stoppers)
and a dozen roses...
(after she plants them,
and they grow older)
She can pick her choice,
(well, after I have...)

But, best of all,...
she doesn't have to read
any more of my drivel....

Congratulations, Christy, 
Now, don't get too misty...

Luv, tom...

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