Behold! God has a Sense of Humor!
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“Ah! Ah!” cried Mr. Shaw, a museum man of science in 1799,
as he carefully unwrapped a specimen from New South Wales.
It was Labeled: "It's a weird one; Caught in a creek; Dug from a burrow with ...
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Categories:
specimen, animal, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis
appaloosa
...appaloosa horse
mottled skin and striped hooves
~ stunning specimen
AP: Honorable Mention 2025...
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Categories:
specimen, animal, horse,
Form: Haiku
A Tale of Tree
...I write this as I sit under a tree,
It’s beauty, a specimen of nature, you see;
It’s flower, so warm and bright,
Like the friend who stays with you,
On a summer’s night.
Its leaves, so dainty an...
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Categories:
specimen, sweet, tree,
Form: Free verse
Play with Fire Till Your Fingers Burn
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~Play With Fire Till your Fingers Burn~
5/20/2025
Experience life to its full brink,so sad, to witness any human, being had!
Just try to be a mirror of the...
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Categories:
specimen, courage, environment, fate, poets,
Form: Free verse
It Ain't Easy Being Humble
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If there's one thing to remember as you travel life's highway
We're all made of the same stuff
Bones, skin, hair, and smashing good looks
Oops sorry, not everyone is blessed with good ...
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Categories:
specimen, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Honest Doctor
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My doctor is like no other,
he treats me like a brother.
Never unfair nor dishonest
in diagnosis or prognosis;
he tells me all just as it is –
a trait he’s known for best.
During my recen...
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Categories:
specimen, humor,
Form: Light Verse
More Ups Than Downs
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Life has many ups and downs
Personally more ups than downs
A happy life with many more years
A bunch more smiles than frowns
Surely one of the fortunate ones
The genes were a very ...
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Categories:
specimen, health,
Form: Rhyme
POLITICAL PRISONER
...BEING A POLITICAL PRISONER HAS IT'S DRAWBACKS I GUESS WHILE RECIEVING TERRORIST THREATS TRYING TO JUST MAINTAIN A DAILY REGIMENE RATHER ITS PICKING OF MEDICATIONS FROM THE PHARMACY A SENSE OF DREAD A...
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Categories:
specimen, allah,
Form: Naat
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills
...Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills...,
and finally gung-ho with a poem title
important to yours truly
not disappointing his Facebook fan base,
which electronic affirmation,
and c...
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Categories:
specimen, absence, africa, animal, baby,
Form: Free verse
Shattered dreams of New Canaan
...Shattered dreams of New Canaan
no longer land of the free home of the brave,
original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified,
where diseases xeroxed
ambushed, crushed, extinguished,
squashed...
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Categories:
specimen, allegory, america, analogy, animal,
Form: Free verse
Steampunk Mouse MacIntire
...Steampunk mouse had a suit of gears and copper to admire
A fine specimen, great soldier, he had been the king’s squire
But now he was a stylish gentle-mouse, dare he attempt to go higher?
I could ...
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Categories:
specimen, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Corpse Flower
...Who would wait in line to smell
A flower that’s so vile
Its odor reeks like rotting flesh,
Quite hard to reconcile
With all the other lovely plants
The Gardens* have on view?
I’m not sure I w...
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Categories:
specimen, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Perfection
...Perfection
That is what you strive for, but what's the use when no one notices?
How many times have you cried because you weren't perfect?
How many times have you been looked over just because of ...
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Categories:
specimen, deep, discrimination, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Ah methinks I could sleep forever
...Ah... methinks I could sleep forever
Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
fast moving molecules of heat
solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted
by mi...
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Categories:
specimen, adventure, appreciation, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Broadway Ballad Christmas Gathering
...The Male Belgium Blue
Spieciem #.0009-280
and Female specimen
Brown Swiss--290
( a deluxe wool Hat)
Swiss Maids Uniiform
west cotton that rots
but new she's a doll!
said Bisser Daned to have
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Categories:
specimen, celebrity, culture, dance, encouraging,
Form: Ballad
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