Short Wiley Poems

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wicked witch

wenches weep


Copyright McCuen 2008...

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There was a boy called Wiley Willy.
Everyone knew that he was silly.
Lived his life in jest.
Thought it was the best.
Til' he met up with Bully Billy....

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New buds of color gently caress Mother Earth
Poking from lowdown extending up out of dirt
Wiley unruly sensing the suns’ call to bloom
Flowers pushing up petals spreading over doom...

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My teenage granddaughter tried to manipulate me
Wiley and cagey as I knew she could expertly be.
I was ahead of her little game by a country mile.
I raised her motther who has an identical smile....

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MATERNAL LOVE

                              Mother Duck and Ducklings venture from cattail cover
                                               wiley mother duck
                                     which wee waddler will you sacrifice
                                                to the prowling fox...

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Wiley Willie the wandering witch 
Rides against the moon and gives it an itch
Humans in the house are so unaware
But I am telling you – beware! Beware!

Wiley Willie is notoriously wise.
She has bested creatures in disguise.
We know to fear her in the harvest moon.
If you don’t see her she will snatch you soon!...

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Wiley Willie the wandering witch
Rides against the moon and gives it an itch
Humans in Missouri houses are absolutely unaware
But I am telling you – beware! Beware!

Wiley Willie is notoriously wise.
She has bested creatures in disguise.
We know to fear her in the harvest moon.
If you don’t see her she will snatch you soon!...

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Wiley witches frolic with unabashed glee
A natural dance, they are blessed be….
An October playground that you can see.
Halloween prance in their minds like a melody. 

A playfulness they take on, we must agree
Celebrating the power of the mighty she
They scared the Grimm Brothers to a tea,
Who were jealous of witches and totally....

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I was not too old to hold my mother’s hand,
but too young to understand the thoughts
that mither mind of man.

That serpent’s wiley snare when seeing 
female form beneath her clothes, eyes were 
opened, and caught this Adam unaware.

Thus seeing does seduce, now opened 
eyes can see, and thus this sin is loosed.
Lord still deliver me....

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How can they play a fair game ;
when there is no shame.
Bitterness, jealousy,and envy rules,
in many of those Ivy Leagues schools.
May you come to use your own head,
and not follow those off-base rules,
of the crowd of wiley, worldly fools.
Monkey see,and monkey do,
learn the whole picture...
and seek the whole view! 


Copyright McCuen 2009...

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When Popeye whipped Brutus's ass
I shoulda' promptly been sent to mass
Wiley C. gets flattened by a safe?
What a horrid, repulsive disgrace!
Elmer tried to murder Bugs Bunny
You laughing? You think this is funny?
When Tom tried to terminate Jerry
Were critics amused? Not very!

Cartoons were my video games
And yes, I am duly ashamed
One reaps what he sows as they say 
(But I think I turned out okay)

1/1/13
Yasmen's contest...

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multi-cultural mecca
Farmers' Market at the United Nations Plaza,
San Francisco

water fountain sculpture
misting through the
jazz audience at lunchtime, 
during the weekday summer concert series

poetry gives me new eyes
situated right in front of my 
heart ~ sigh

A wiley seagull bathing
under a pressure close to a full
blast, water sculpture mist curls my hair

And I forget the littered alley I walked through
a second ago...

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Wiley Wee Willy Mousey walked through the house
Careful to not wake another human or mouse
Tiptoeing beyond the cupboards to climb in the sink.
Where waited his girlfriend, Miss Curly Mouse Pink.

I’ve made a Jacuzzi, there are bubbles, she said.
Do not drink too many, or you will wind up kind of dead.
Wee Willy Mousey dove in but accidentally hit hard his head.
So Miss Curly Mouse Pink called up her other boyfriend Rat Fred....

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The wiley canine creature
strutted in the winter sun
through the back yard, light on foot
no care in the world
A stretch, a yawn, a funny dance
not noticing the audience
of human creatures peering
through the back door pane
Oblivious until he came 
within arm's reach of the house
The glass - the separation
between children and the beast
A lovely coat, a dream to watch
he really should be out at night
But on this day he brought us 
all a garden show to delight...

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Drifting by variegated green banks, 
Moving water in all shades of blue.
A trout flashing his silver sides,
The setting sun in a golden hue.

The brown of restless rocky bottom,
Shadowed eddies beaded with black.
Wiley otters play in shades of grey,
A wood duck with gilded red on it’s back.

The Klamath River a kaleidoscope of color,
One of the last wild rivers in this “golden” state.
California once crowned by natural beauty,
Safeguard what remains… before it’s to late....

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