DOG CHASES TAIL-Doggone It for Pick a Title Poetry Contest
...DOG CHASES TAIL
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In circles goes the dog,
a furry whirlwind, tail a-wagging,
his nose to the ground, sniffing out the ghost of a bone
with no clue ...
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Categories:
snorts, 12th grade, dog, memory,
Form: Free verse
He seems to be
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He seems to be the pompous sort;
looks down his nose at us and snorts~
"your poems are subpar
and only fit as char" ~
in the judgement of his self-made court!
Postscript: If the shoe do...
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Categories:
snorts, humor, satire,
Form: Limerick
Information
...From sunrise, when the breath of the new-born day
Kisses my eyes, information startles me.
Waves of my sleep leave the froth from my mouth,
Youthful and earnestly fresh with the harassment of
Bot...
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Categories:
snorts, internet, social, society,
Form: Free verse
The Snorthog
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To date the snorthog
has only been seen
late at night in the bedroom
disturbing me and my dreams
first he hogs the bedclothes
then snorts up a storm
while I lie awake
counting sheep
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Categories:
snorts, fun, humor, night, silly,
Form: Rhyme
C S Lewis J R R Tolkien Elgar and Malverns distress
...Around the Hills of Malvern now..Desecration takes place.'
Let me inform all how.' Where Elgars body has rested long
And Tolkien and Lewis did ramble in song.' all of these
Three historical giant...
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Categories:
snorts, beauty, character, education, england,
Form: Rhyme
Slab City Crisis Tamed
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Written: February 26, 2025, for Antony Biaanco Contest
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City hum drifts through spurious ways,
teeming in a wild, woody w...
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Categories:
snorts, angst, city,
Form: Free verse
Wu Bi
...His eyes could pierce your soul and evaporate your spirit.
a stone face glare locked on his victim
trembling you turn your eyes from him
ever slightly...
A fist of lightning
strike of a foot in ...
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Categories:
snorts, bullying, school, youth,
Form: Free verse
WORDPLAY
...WORDPLAY
Scores of work to read and think deeply
Stores of enthusiasm can reduce steeply
Snores are heard and can attract curses
Snorts from a few less tolerant nurses
Sports offer very differ...
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Categories:
snorts, words,
Form: Rhyme
MY CLASSMATES
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My classmates
Theresa Trot had a snot
Hanging from her nose
She sniffs and snorts and swallows
But Theresa never blows.
Now it’s run down past her lips
And settled on ...
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Categories:
snorts, 2nd grade, childhood, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Kentucky Mustang
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October gallops in as stolid as a gray mare,
a blunt wind snorts furiously through autumnal trees.
Foliage rattles, but does not fall, it clings still
to green stems.
Appalachian backwoods ha...
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Categories:
snorts, poverty,
Form: Free verse
You lay sleeping
...You lay sleeping, and I, awake, focus on you’re steady breathing in hopes it will lull me into at very least a meditative trance, if not actual sleep.
I stare into the blackness of the room, it’s e...
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Categories:
snorts, angst, funny, people, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Acts of Horror Gets Horror
...Eyeless it manifested from the depths of the abyssal darkness of the woods.
Hide reflective more muscle almost fleshless ribbon peeled back skull necklace.
Limbs contort and pop grotesque as it mov...
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Categories:
snorts, dark, death, dog, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
I move when my dog wants up on the sofa
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He learned so quickly how to not bring sticks and balls back
He seems to think when he puts his head down
there should be a bowl beneath it
Strained swell into a wells
Turning the nail
Hamme...
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Categories:
snorts, poems,
Form: Free verse
Moose Encounter
...Moose Encounter
In his element, with eyes glaring,
The beast snorts out of his nostrils
Like a steam locomotive
All fired up, flaring!
On legs as high as my shoulders;
His front hooves...
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Categories:
snorts, animal, nature,
Form: Verse
The Sound of Snoring
...It is common knowledge to those who have shared rooms with the groom and those who have only shared houses with him, he snores
and no matter what one tries to do to stop him, or to dampen the sound...
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Categories:
snorts, humor, humorous, music, sleep,
Form: Free verse
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