Jolly Jill
Jill just can’t sit for one minute still;
In everything she wants some thrill!
One rainy evening she climbs a hill;
From there she slips making a shrill!
This results her fall straight into a rill;
She swallows water a gallon at her will!
As her belly swells, she falls critically ill;
The quack there tries on her every pill!
It costs
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Categories:
shrill, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Kill the Shrill
there was a young man from Seville
whose wife's voice was chillingly shrill
he said please shut up
he’d more than enough
sending him looking for advil!
(caveat: no endorsement of product intended)
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Categories:
shrill, funny, humorous, hurt, husband,
Form: Limerick
Shrill Oddquain
Howl;
I’m throbbing
blanket of stillness;
It’s too loud to hear the scream;
Wail,
stranded obscenely inside;
Fiercely constricted
by my thoughts
shrill.
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Categories:
shrill, anger, angst, emo, emotions,
Form: Other
Shrill Sound
The new morning breaks,
The old night passes from eyes,
The cock loudly crows.
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Categories:
shrill, nature,
Form: Haiku
Shrill
Sing
Brown bird
State thy name
Claim your domain
Your bill - golden bling
You’re adult now
Time to wow
Blackbird
Sing
16 April 2021
Contest: Spring Ninette
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger
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Categories:
shrill, bird, nature, spring,
Form: Ninette
Lifeboat To Hunt a Shrill
Part 5
They continued to fry under a blistering sky
With little water to stifle the heat.
When the Hippo put forth, "Considering our course,
We have entered the waters of a perilous beast."
"You may have heard tales of all manner of whales
And from that... make what
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Categories:
shrill, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Shrill Echoes
As early frost kissed window glass
And autumn shed her scant remains,
Her glory done, her time now past
Bare trees lined the country lanes,
The woods were quiet, nothing stirred
Filled it seemed with expectation,
The shrill echo of a bird
Lamented autumn's resignation.
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Categories:
shrill, change, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Barn Owl Shrill
Break Forest Quiet
The Shrill of a Barn Owl
The Job Accomplished
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Categories:
shrill, nature,
Form: Haiku
Shrill Cry
It was halloween night
I heard children shouting with glee
One odd looking man
knocked my door
Filled my bag with goodies
and opended the door
He snatched the chocolate and ran away
I was sobbing as I didn't have more candies to give
Another guy came
Highly dressed like a bood sucking vampire
He gave his arm to me
Filled my bag with
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Categories:
shrill, confidence, courage, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Blank verse
The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth Tor in the outlying
region of the “Dark Forbidden Forest” known for evil, death,
and lost souls. This tale passeth from generation to generation,
to the present, and still frightens all people who hear its grim
message as it sends
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Categories:
shrill, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
- the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth Tor in the outlying
region of the “Dark Forbidden Forest” known for evil, death,
and lost souls. This tale passeth from generation to generation,
to the present, and still frightens all people
...
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Categories:
shrill, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth Tor in the outlying
region of the “Dark Forbidden Forest” known for evil, death,
and lost souls. This tale passeth from generation to generation,
to the present, and still frightens all people
...
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Categories:
shrill, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Mornings Shrill With Skylarks Singing
Mornings shrill with skylarks singing
o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture,
the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer.
A sudden shower would see me running
fancy free between the rain drops,
I cried 'Excelsior!' and set the hills alive;
I skittered, happy crisp and clear,
like God's first measure of a
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Categories:
shrill, celebration, children, writing,
Form: Prose Poetry
Shrill Sweet Sadness
The teapot whistling on the stove
reminded him of what had been
in settled domesticity
when they were only twenty-three.
The baby crying in the crib
the teapot whistling on the stove
the way her apron hugged her hips
the sparks that flew between their lips
creating scenes of bliss and strife.
And when she ceased to be his wife
the teapot whistling on the
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Categories:
shrill, life, loss, music,
Form: Quatern