Shoe Stop
...When day care classes take a stroll,
In line with lime green smocks,
They look so cute while navigating
New York City blocks.
With grown-ups at the front and back
And sometimes in-between,
Th...
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Categories:
smocks, appreciation, children, new york,
Form: Rhyme
La Ferme
...It was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She lives in Paris, but she owns a Château and surrounding...
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Categories:
smocks, 4th grade, easter, family,
Form: Free verse
Dr Harold Shipman: Judge and Executioner: Revised
...*Image of Dr. Harold Shipman by Film Daily.
Dr. Harold Shipman: Judge & Executioner: REVISED
The D.A. hoped
a tenth suffice
although they moped
much more be nice
but after all
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Categories:
smocks, character, dark, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Old Records
...Listening
As grooves whirl
A familiar track,
Once familiar refrains
Recall the vintage
Of innocence.
Scratched
In almost forgotten places,
The sound is altered ...
Yet I hear a cadence of ...
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Categories:
smocks, growing up, music,
Form: Free verse
In a Suburban Paradise
...In A Suburban Paradise
I was to spend hours on my bed
writing short stories in 1967;
with my left leg dangling over the left side,
I sat on the right leg,
like I was some nosy bird nesting o...
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Categories:
smocks, art, memory,
Form: Free verse
Colored Wolf, Legends of the Wolves
...Should I, mere a rabbit of sand, shiny hair,
sport a shock of fur mired in clay,
they from gofer mounds, propped on to peer, would sound warning
through the sun glades and sleep grotto shades.
...
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Categories:
smocks, animal,
Form: Rhyme
The Eye of God
...An Omniscient being
do not need the use
of any eye, even if
it being only one.
'Tis a benefit for mere
mortals sense of
reasoning away mere
suspicion, or perhaps
superstitio...
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Categories:
smocks, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Philmon the Mad Scientist-Scary Holloween Edition
...Everyone in town knows
Philmon is a mad scientist
It's not his little hunchback buddy
Or the crazy smocks in which he's always dressed
It's not the lighting clouds over his house
Or the strang...
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Categories:
smocks, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Drop Cloth Dreams
...Drop cloth dreams
It has been found that given enough time
failure will find this destined loser
lurking in gallery tints
and watercolor fault lines
semi gloss replaced by flat
Painti...
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Categories:
smocks, art, lost, sad,
Form: Free verse
What's Fair Is Fair
...What’s fair is fair
I walked into Macys Department Store the other day
thinking I’d buy a few items for the summer
I entered on the first floor and was met by
counter after counter of cosmetics...
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Categories:
smocks, fashion, humor, men, women,
Form: Free verse
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'
...Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism?
This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the Univ...
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Categories:
smocks, love, poetry, poets, ,
Form: Free verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2
...Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenc...
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Categories:
smocks, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic
Poems For Trump Number 50 Cousin Donald
...Cousin Donald Comes to Town ...
Elroy was all cock-a-hoop cos
cousin Donald was a-comin'
a visiting & they were so darn
chuffed & tremblin' in anticipation
that friday night the seven of them
...
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Categories:
smocks, political,
Form: ABC
Philmon the Mad Scientist- Halloween Edition
...Everyone in town knows
Philmon is a mad scientist
It's not his little hunchback buddy
Or the crazy smocks in which he's always dressed
It's not the lighting clouds over his house
Or the strang...
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Categories:
smocks, humor, scary,
Form: Light Verse
Philmon the Mad Scientist
...Everyone in town knows
Philmon is a mad scientist
It's not his little hunchback buddy
Or the crazy smocks in which he's always dressed
It's not the lighting clouds over his house
Or the strang...
...
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Categories:
smocks, funny,
Form: Free verse
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