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The Scorpion's Life Lesson

...Let me tell you my story
Not that it covers me in glory

Looking to be ferried across a river
A frog took me on board as long as I stung him never

Halfway across we were chatting happily
When...

Categories: snappily, betrayal,
Form: Couplet

Zippily

...Zippily, zippity, I slip down
the slippery dip slide.
Zippity-doo-dah, slippily-dippity-do!
Suddenly and nippily, tipping 
backwards to quicken the pace.
Snappily, I whippingly 
swish right off...

Categories: snappily, flying, games,
Form: Free verse

Living Out Loud and Proud

...They lived out loud and proud and dazzled the neighbors
But only the ones who were paying attention
Which was not many actually

They laughed so strong and long that others rolled their eyes
The...

Categories: snappily, age, joy, life,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

She Comes

...A crumpled bit of paper
Dust lined creased edges
A fog of memories 
Invading her heavenly sanctuary

Loud voices rape her
Moat of sheltering hedges
Adrift on wavering seas
It's better not eve...

Categories: snappily, dark,
Form: Free verse

The Town Gossip Gets It Wrong Again

...There is a gopher hiding in the gooseberry bushes,
Kaie, the town gossip told me.
I looked hard.
Got prickled by the bush’s thorns too.
Got bloody.
Hey! Someone said.
It was a snappily dressed ...

Categories: snappily, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Narrative

Vembadi My Alma Mater

...Vembadi, my Alma Mater


On day one, I stepped into school tearfully,
In school uniform, clutching my bag nervously.
Miss Barker appeared! I gazed  at her fearfully,
Her foreign face scared the...

Categories: snappily, education,
Form: Free verse

Spring Peach

...Zest still lingering on the golden beach,
afar usher flocks of flowers of spring peach,
sprucely greeting ensemble yet snappily nodding each.   
Estrangement erased, elysian exclusives elope into ...

Categories: snappily, flower, spring,
Form: Rhyme

So Many Ologists What To Choose

...Carol Ellen’s love of granite will turn her into a fulfilled geologist.
Tim’s fascination with stem cells will help him be a fantastic biologist.
Me, myself, I want to a tri-scientist. Maybe paleon...

Categories: snappily, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Mayor of the Snitchies

...There are red and green snitchies in my fingers,
They rapidly chase me down my wooden hall.
Delightedly twirl me I into a mass with their zingers,
Eleven can quickly roll me into a giant ball.

...

Categories: snappily, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Barbershop Quartet

...Old Mr. Nicholson
totters across the town square
to the barbershop where
Clive has cut his hair
for the last forty years or so

Not hardly needing
even a trim
but pretending
he has a reason ...

Categories: snappily, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Do I Like You

...Do I Like You? 

Do I like the amount you put into my mouth? 
Do I like how you wash me in the shower? 
Do I like how you put my clothes on - strangely? 
Do I like your order for my bracelet, th...

Categories: snappily, angst, betrayal, body, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme