ode to yellow
...sunflower
canary
happy face from the late sixties
see the pattern?
Beatles submarine
duck
slicker (raincoat)
now do you get it?
sun
daffodil
dandelion
endorsements for yellow
promot...
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Categories:
slicker, art,
Form: Free verse
Gonifs and gossips revisited
...Gonifs and gossips revisited
since originally being crafted
approximately half dozen
dirty deeds done dirt cheap years ago...
Abound and lurk
within every nook and cranny
analogous to some ...
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Categories:
slicker, abuse, adventure, anger, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Billys Walk to School
...Billy no longer needed his hood for the rain
She had stopped ten minutes ago
But his yellow slicker felt comfortable around his face
He trudged through the overly tall grasses toward school
It ...
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Categories:
slicker, march,
Form: Free verse
Pig Beach, Bahamas
...a young professor doing research
my grasp of truth
was quick to form
and
i began
my earnest search
for a one-horned unicorn
so
i put on a yellow slicker
and
i went out in the storm
but
th...
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Categories:
slicker, animal, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Yellow Words
...Yellow Words—Used 10 times in the poem
Under the warm yellow sun
floating on the calm Yellow Sea
fishing for the sweet tasting yellow fin tuna.
My mouth waters at the thought of
tuna steaks sl...
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Categories:
slicker, yellow,
Form: Prose Poetry
Winter Confession
...
Little girl, Sunday
through christening water
Little woman, Monday
through marring rain —
and motions
the berg slicker —
fear the approaching snow
their heart reign;
together a frozen cho...
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Categories:
slicker, childhood, christian, love, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Memory Poem In Apartment A 1971
...Memory Poem In Apartment A - 1971
a brace of wine glasses standing tall on a kitchen table
greasy frying pan luxuriating immodestly in the kitchen sink
two forks and two knives bathing naked in ...
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Categories:
slicker, memory,
Form: Free verse
A Proven Fact
...
A Proven Fact
Miracle Man
4/19/2024
Politicians will lie,
to hold on to their power.
But in election years,
they’ve learned how to cower.
They couldn’t care less,
about the rank a...
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Categories:
slicker, how i feel, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Retreating after a Routine Bust
...how absurd…an owl,
wearing a night cap…the fowl
an audience howl
owl downs his liquor
his entertainment slicker
audience snicker
in midst, a jeerer
a foul audience nearer
here comes the s...
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Categories:
slicker, bird, humor,
Form: Senryu
Champagne Magic
...There are those who
Are after red roses
that’s what appeals to their noses
Though violets are blue
they just will not do
Give her champagne
and she dozes
Because candy is dandy
flowers t...
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Categories:
slicker, fun, love,
Form: Limerick
Copycat
...Glamour
Grammar
Jealous
Careless
Believe
Naive
Slicker
Quicker
Deny
Goodbye
Bitter
Twitter...
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Categories:
slicker, anger, care, change, conflict,
Form: Footle
Daisy Was Tired of Waiting
...Donald Duck got rained on plenty hard that day
His yellow slicker was wet every which way
We saw him standing there, beside Hamil’s Bay.
Waved to him too, said my cousin May.
Was he wearing a r...
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Categories:
slicker, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
New Dog Named Ucap
...We have a new dog and we call her UCAP
Interesting, I say, does she chase tail and nap?
She doesn’t do anything other dogs do.
Actually, and her bark sounds more like a moo.
I did not meet UCAP...
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Categories:
slicker, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Rivers of Pain
...
Shivers of pain trigger my pen
To write and write
Till I forget this yen
To cry aloud
Slivers of pain snig ger at me
To fight and fight
Till I forget to see
...
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Categories:
slicker, how i feel, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Bubba's Poem Barn 5
...Good morning - today, I share the secrets of the great eastern poets. Here’s how to write fancy:
senryu, haiku:
first, centers on you; second,
hike you stay out of
to write a monoku...
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Categories:
slicker, writing,
Form: Light Verse
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