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Slowpoke Poems

Sandys Small Heart

...sandy has a smaller heart than an artichoke
emotionally a quintessential slowpoke
stomping on others feelings with army boots
ripping out hearts straight from their roots
leaving broken and batte...

Categories: slowpoke, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Bird Footles -2

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King of Sky

Regal
Eagle

Robin in Mourning

Sobbin’
Robin

Bird Snatcher

Robbin’
Robin

The Oldster

Blue Jay
grew gray

The Slowpoke

Wood Thrush
should rush!

Out of No...

Categories: slowpoke, bird,
Form: Footle

Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult

...Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult

Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil nec...

Categories: slowpoke, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Nocture Surfer

...The pink honeycomb provided a mysterious grace,
Warrior with a sloth-purse unclosed wound.

Sargassum, barefoot hollow woman,
As if such an object could meet my canonic sound.

Soak...

Categories: slowpoke, analogy, angst, beauty, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Slowpoke

...slow to eat, crawl, climb
sloth exemplifies slowness
mindfulness on show...

Categories: slowpoke, nature,
Form: Haiku

Set In Cement

...The man in a hurry does everything fast
   Make him slow down, his verve will not last
The slowpoke takes his time, he's in no special rush
   Tell him 'Speed up,' and his spirit you'll crush

M...

Categories: slowpoke, change, character, humanity,
Form: Couplet

Right On Time -- Or Ten Minutes Early

...Dad was forever in a hurry
  His life filled with tension and worry
He always had to be right on time
  If not, he preferred ten minutes early

A terror behind the wheel of his car
  He cursed ...

Categories: slowpoke, analogy, anger, child, dad,
Form: Light Verse

Hurry Up Slowpoke-Take My Hand

...“Hurry up slowpoke-take my hand”, said the little boy to his dad. “Wait until you taste the cherry water ice on 2nd Street”
“Hurry up slowpoke-take my hand”, said the boy, who was now a teenager, to...

Categories: slowpoke, age, faith, family,
Form: Free verse

Wishful Thinking

...To be literate makes us cock of the hoop. 
If we cannot read we’re out of the loop,
but can a slowpoke,
and illiterate folk,
learn to read eating alphabet soup....

Categories: slowpoke, mystery,
Form: Limerick

Slowpoke

...Birds shed their feathers;
Trees, they change with the weather.
But I have seen heaven; I have seen hell.
Felt all of life slowly, stuck in my shell.

Hundred years, I have spent in my mobile ho...

Categories: slowpoke, age, allegory, animal, death,
Form: Rhyme

Taking the Bus

...You shouldn’t take the bus unless
You aren’t in a rush
‘Cause if you are, frustration
May burst forth and start to gush.

The line of people inches up,
Embarking one by one;
At every stop the ...

Categories: slowpoke, city,
Form: Rhyme

Always Late

...I'm in a constant race against Father time.
You can bet I'll be last crossing the finish line.

If I must tell someone a time and date,
I'll make it there, but I'll be late.

At home the clocks...

Categories: slowpoke, funny, time,
Form: I do not know?