CASEY’S SECOND CHANCE!
...The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two, with but an inning left to play.
And when Cooney fell at first, and Barrows met the same,
A hush of sorrow...
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Categories:
smock, baseball, destiny, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
CRAZY DREAM
...written by :
Owen Hamalala
My dreams are crazy and mysterious.
They appear while I am asleep (like A thief).
slips away when am awake. In my dreams,
I am the kind of person I can never
e...
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Categories:
smock, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1
...Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pal...
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Categories:
smock, history, longing,
Form: Free verse
I Saw Santa Claus
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In England it is almost twelve o'clock
I just saw Santa Claus in his red smock
He left parcels galore
Outside of my front door
Asked him in, but he said his lips were sore....
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Categories:
smock, character, christmas, fantasy,
Form: Limerick
Oh No
...I could not wait to stop wearing maternity clothes.
I had been pregnant for 9 months I 1971
and then for another 9 months in 1973.
You can hardly imagine how irritating it was
to see the newest f...
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Categories:
smock, humorous,
Form: Prose Poetry
Servitude
...Creep, oh centipede!
A malady to my cornea.
Like kernels a decoy
In my Eden realm.
I'm infuriate to civility
Just us serenity intervene.
Serendipity smock my bones
In solit...
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Categories:
smock, addiction, devotion, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Dunking Stool
...Cucking-stools
A ballad, dating from about 1615, called "The Cucking of a Scold", illustrates the punishment inflicted to women whose behavior made them be identified as "a Scold"
Then w...
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Categories:
smock, history,
Form: Ballad
Doctor Doctor
...Now feeling under the weather,
Don't you hate these winter chills?
I'm off to see Doctor Doctor,
To get the latest, greatest pills.
I wait for an hour or more,
Then I'm shown to a vacant room....
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Categories:
smock, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Fashion and Fabrics Are Never New
...1950’s poodle skirts made a brief come back.
kids in the eighties thought it was funny, a fact.
my own daughter had some scotty dog clothes too
not knowing they were old, thinking they were new.
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Categories:
smock, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
Hi-Story of a Hill
...HI STORY of a HILL
They grazed their sheep upon my grass*
So many centuries in the past
In feudal times,a monastery of hope
'Til King Henry divorced the Pope
In later times upon my hill*
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Categories:
smock, history,
Form: Personification
Training a Gambler
...I shall have you richly prepared
For the notorious life of card:
Have you grasp another life hard,
By far tougher than that of bard;
What one does, all the time on guard;
For steady losses: A Re...
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Categories:
smock, celebration, evil, money, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Kaleidoscope
...Across the sideways, bronze framed hall mirror,
A ribbon of infrared light imprinted itself,
Like a streak of alien sky;
Hours later, it dimmed and blew out, like an ill-furnished house.
Other re...
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Categories:
smock, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Wall Clocks and Men
...Men remember the wall clock,
When it is time to doors lock
Or after crows of a cock,
Cocks comparing with a clock...
Some remember hung wall clock
To fast turn up in the dock
And show they ca...
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Categories:
smock, allusion, people, perspective, time,
Form: Rhyme
It Is Just a Small Thing
...The little wooden horse you gave me, when I
came home from hospital.
I watch you through the window, in your smock, planting
a new garden.
It is hot I know, I never tire watching you do some th...
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Categories:
smock, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Fiery Lick
...Something about paint
I absolutely adore!~feeling more
fluid-thinking when wearing an
old smock, branded with dashes and
blobs, to my mind each
one a stripe of rank with starry
splashes my m...
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Categories:
smock, art, creation, ocean, passion,
Form: Free verse
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