Life's A Hoot
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Today is the first day of the rest of our lives
No matter how much time we have left
A sobering thought as we reach our golden years
Our number could be up tomorrow, next week, next year...
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Categories:
snappers, life,
Form: Free verse
tall Tales
...The Meat Locker
The largest ice freezer of free-range Texan
long-horns where mice wore fur to survive
broke down, the carcasses began rotting
thrown into the bay.
The day after, sharks came ...
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Categories:
snappers, anger, august, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Ambition
...You walked into my life and turn it upside down, you were certain that I could wear the golden crown, you have been following me from I was a child and you made several stories, books and movie but u...
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Categories:
snappers, betrayal, birth, career, cheer
Form: Narrative
Wobbly Legs
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When I was younger and thought of old age
Thought we all became senile at this elderly stage
It appears I was wrong, I can still go potty
And able to dress this tired old body
Try...
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Categories:
snappers, age,
Form: Double Dactyl
Traveler's Regret
...Traveler's regrets
He had been a sailor all his life, a traveler trying to find
the boy he left behind in the haste of becoming an adult.
An autumnal leaf falls into a stream, follows its cours...
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Categories:
snappers, angst, best friend, cinderella,
Form: Blank verse
Texting
...Young geeks, txt with lightning speed,
Old dudes, lol, trying hard to find the next key to text,
w/e our asl may be, we are trying to convey,
our feelings, imho, in a cryptic language.
Codgers ...
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Categories:
snappers, funny,
Form: Free verse
The Sea Is Deep
...Deep is the sea
A cook on a ship sat on a pollard drinking beer
when he got up, the ship lurched, and he fell overboard
He swam on his back, moving his arms slowly
thinking, if the meat he had...
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Categories:
snappers, beach, change, history,
Form: Blank verse
A Traveller's Regret
...The traveller’s regrets
He has been a sailor all his life, a traveller trying to find
the boy he left behind, the haste to become an adult
an Autumnal leaf falls into the stream follow its cour...
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Categories:
snappers, absence, confidence, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
How Jay-Bird Got His Name
...Young James Pruitt was an ordinary boy;
he grew up in an ordinary town.
But set a spell, and I’ll tell a tale
of how some not-so-ordinary things went down.
See, James was a good boy; he did his...
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Categories:
snappers, boy,
Form: Ballad
Life's a Hoot
...Today is the first day of the rest of our lives
No matter how much time we have left
A sobering thought as we reach our golden years
Our number could be up tomorrow, next week, next year
So we mu...
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Categories:
snappers, life,
Form: Rhyme
I Dream of Steam
...The 'tock', 'tock', 'tock' of the station clock,
the clickety clack of the board.
Telling the time and destinations
but no one to cry 'All aboard!'
The 'bang', 'bang', 'bang' of the carriage d...
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Categories:
snappers, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Instant Love
...Instant Love
1) 1 Part You(Must be soulmate to Me)
2) 1 Part Me(Must be soulmate to You)
3) A lifetime of waiting.........................
4)A forest of “Falling Leaves”??
5) A shared passion fo...
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Categories:
snappers, love,
Form: Free verse
Southern Comfort Beds
...the goslings have shed ochre puffs
which are no longer in vogue,
they're wobbling toddlers now
too big for the snappers' jaw
they cannot fly at all- as ...
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Categories:
snappers, bird,
Form: Free verse
Waves - Max
...waves cycle around
ebbing turquoise seas
ripples do tease
waves swim fathoms deep
returning to navy blue seas
smiles of pearly foam
surf currents of waves
navy blue road flows
salty drink...
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Categories:
snappers, nature, ocean, sea, water,
Form: Haiku
Natural Nature Haiku Chain
...rainbow circle sky
blues greens yellows orange
a dew prism light
rose redolence
lily scent countryside dew
springtime perfume cue
fireflies in flight
bioluminescence bright
a seasonal lig...
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Categories:
snappers, nature,
Form: Haiku
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