The Animal Good Time Band
...When you live on a farm and hear cockadoodle-doo
What do those words mean to you?
They mean pretty soon you'll hear moo,
and you'll have lots of work to do.
After a while, the h...
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Categories:
snuffles, animal, music, onomatopoeia,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Freedom
...a teeny tiny
mouse shyly skitters among
the crisp-dried leaves and deadfall
the teeny tiny
mouse believes that Spring has sprung
to free him from his burrow
when fragrant flowers
ris...
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Categories:
snuffles, animal, environment, flower, freedom,
Form: Sedoka
Wolf Trilogy
...gregarious wolf
monogamous mating pair ~
voracious young yowl
winter feast scarce
rapacious wolf snuffles snow ~
nimble hare cowers
alpha female reigns
wolf pack provides provisions...
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Categories:
snuffles, age, animal, community, environment,
Form: Haiku
Hoggady Boggedy
...There lives a hog called foggedy boggedy
You'll see him rolling in the mud
wearing his boggedy boots quelching his fairy suds..
His pal called Horace Hoggedy snuffles for his truffles,
blowing...
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Categories:
snuffles, columbus day, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Waste
...A winter school yard deserted, a
piece of paper littered , a leaf left
over from the fall and the swing
slowly and cautiously swaying,
empty of the child,who waits for
the Sun to ...
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Categories:
snuffles, allegory, america, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Carrion
...The lumps of flesh and bones lie nestled
in the rotting leaves littering the forest floor.
How long it has lain there seasoned by the rain
as worms work through the tattered tissue.
She approac...
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Categories:
snuffles, animal,
Form: Free verse
Rapture
...Fox frisks snow
with seeking whiskers,
finds a waft of her
on frozen winds.
There! There in the moonlight,
his hearts delight!
Fox sniffs, snuffles,
snares the sweetness,
follows her war...
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Categories:
snuffles, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
March Stew
...Mornings are littered
with gnawed husks,
charred mouse-tails.
March is burning its strew.
The limbless
braid a thawing earth
into knotty threads.
On wet lines flannel shirts
poach in a ...
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Categories:
snuffles, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
First Birthday
...Pretty little princess
in bows and pink sundress
gifts and presents wondrous
year old today
Ribbons, sashes, ruffles
on floor crawls and shuffles
loud laughter and snuffles
childlike...
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Categories:
snuffles, age, birthday, blessing, celebration,
Form: Quatrain
Animal Antics
...One ticket admission to my home z o o!
SO many creatures, don’t know what to do-
a turtle and a bunny,
a stinky pug so funny,
a Golden Retriever who lost a s c r e w!
The bunn...
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Categories:
snuffles, animal, pets, silly,
Form: Limerick
The Owl Said
...I can see the whole world
Though earth is painted black
The zephyr blows gentle at dark
I can see everything at night
My wide big eyes can wander
with a creep voice that can lather
I’m a noc...
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Categories:
snuffles, bird,
Form: Personification
Influenza
...IN-FLU-ENZA!
IN-FLEW-ENZA!
This was not my today's agenda,
Hankies for snuffles my addenda,
Here I rest, moribunda!
Wintry weather down under,
Suppose it is not so bad,
Bed rest to be had,
No...
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Categories:
snuffles, funny, health, how i
Form: Free verse
The Sneeze
...Mrs. Snuffles' epic sneeze
Blew her ruffles to the knees
While blowing her nose, she tore her hose
Disturbing the neighbor's peace
The neighbor was so displeased
He lost his temper and shrieked,
"Ple...
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Categories:
snuffles, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Todays Poem
...Damp dark day out there
while the world in here is shining warm
as flames lick charring logs
and kettle sounds of glub glub glub arise from my kitchen
all comfort shrouded in terrycloth robe
th...
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Categories:
snuffles, day, world, dark, dark,
Form: Free verse