Rhyming for Fun
...Rickety rackety rattletrap Ralph
Swiftly splattered and splashed his way south
Tattering and transferring two trucks in a tunnel
Undermining Uncle Uric’s ferocious fire funnel
Slickly sideswiping...
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Categories:
slickly, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Ducks
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The docile ducks toddle out in the sunny morn,
being in the winding file they are never forlorn.
In fluffy random rows the downy ducklings trail,
their frisky frolics aren’t ever listless a...
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Categories:
slickly, bird, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
May Rain
...Red shingled roofs rise and sink,
slickly buoyant with new showers.
Cars drive behind cloud-skyscrapers.
The park is soggy with small dogs,
colorful umbrellas are set aside
beside paddling pig...
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Categories:
slickly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Atlantic Ocean An Unrelenting Mistress
...The Atlantic ocean...,an unrelenting mistress
More'n ten thousand leagues under the sea
next to an octopus's garden in the shade.
OceanGate manufacturer
of the Titan Submersible,
which vesse...
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Categories:
slickly, abuse, analogy, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and Strength
...My ebbing physical prowess and strength
noticeably decreases in one direction.
I take lock, stock and barrel
to revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevail...
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Categories:
slickly, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
Treacle
...Sickly sickly treacle trickley
seeps on, mouldering down the crock.
Stickily sticky it steadily, trickily
keeps on for many a round of the clock.
I wonder I wonder if I would turn green
Should...
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Categories:
slickly, humorous, silly, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Gossip
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They grin and sneer, then turn away quickly
Following their lead, my heart slowly recedes
Never without their tales, some quite sickly
They listen to many stories, gossiping thic...
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Categories:
slickly, angst, conflict, confusion, sad,
Form: Villanelle
The Red Hair Girl At the Houston Station
...The pretty red hair girl
at the Houston Station
gave me heart palpitation,
but she got all my revered admiration...
because she resembled a Barbie doll;
and I became so emotional!
Across th...
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Categories:
slickly, beautiful, emotions, fate, girl,
Form: Lyric
He Was Never a Sure Bet
...I introduced my fiancé to my best friend.
Knowing they would not get along at all.
I was the one not happy in the end.
For their love affair was not a bit small.
They both dumped me quickly.
T...
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Categories:
slickly, life,
Form: Rhyme
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
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“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welt...
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Categories:
slickly, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
Competitions In Disregard
...Am I unhealthy and unsafe oppressed,
suppressed,
repressed,
right-brain negatively depressed?
Not really all that:
competitively left-brain impressive,
first through last impression
newswor...
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Categories:
slickly, depression, desire, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and Strength Flows Away Ii
...At long last... Beatle browed
Beastie Boys attained Nirvana
routing hellish existential crisis
courtesy Earth, Wind And Fire
rendered null and void celibate Journey
knight in shining armor
for...
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Categories:
slickly, adventure, age, anger, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Hope and Resilience
...Quest the shove your fate, my mate.
With the advice of the dough of joy sate,
To coincidentally run into one's soulmate.
In the way of other options, we baste.
Though worries wer...
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Categories:
slickly, analogy, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Who Are You
...Poems are sliding out of my eyes today
Running down my cheeks and smearing my fey
I tried to catch one, but it bit me on the petootsie.
That will teach her, said a new muse name Mootsie.
Mootsi...
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Categories:
slickly, writing,
Form: Rhyme
My Ebbing Physical Prowess and Strength
...I take stock and revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his Macbook Pro
today February 20, 2021.
Since ...
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Categories:
slickly, 12th grade, confusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme
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