Ode To An Ocelot
Not a lot of ocelots
are seen in the day
they prefer the evening
or the night
if an ocelot you're hot to spot
altho' it's quite a long shot
an ocelot you want to sight
you may even hit the jackpot
if you do it right
all you've really got to do
is switch off the light
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Categories:
spot, animal, fun, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Blind Spot
Why can't my blind spot see?
it’s shadowing me in the eye's periphery
edgily creeping sideways like a crab,
watching me,
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Categories:
spot, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Hit the Sweet Spot, Sweetie
Ever so sweet
is kernel hub,
the power button,
so neat, tiny and mighty.
But the sweet spot
can sour with
too much power
to savor its glory.
For to score is fragile,
furtive and futile,
when a near miss,
catches the edge.
It's easily bruised,
easily abused,
easily overused,
overdone and missed.
The soft spot sweetie,
requires a gentle touch,
with panache, pizzazz,
flair and feeling.
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Categories:
spot, dedication, devotion, games,
Form: Free verse
Spot Dreams
Spot Dreams
I watch his paws twitch
ears upright listening
his soft growls, he corners his prey
even in sleep he dreams
the cat can’t escape
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Categories:
spot, dog, dream,
Form: Free verse
Dot
People think I am a separator of two sentence
Surely, in my mind I have no vengeance,
I am just a full stop to a line
But I have more to gain,
I am a small round mark
But all can make me dark,
I am just a short click
And easily you can pick,
I am a buzz forming a letter
In fashion,
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Categories:
spot, 1st grade, books, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
I am a young pup named Spot
today I will be resting on my cot
I would say
to you cats today
get plenty of rest you’ll need it
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Categories:
spot, dog,
Form: Limerick
A Haunting Spot
Pearl
rapids
steam cascade
haunting canvass
a red dawn smoulder
to prise sluggish eyelids
of zestful bright mood riser
who gulps in rapt awestruck spoonfuls
of mosaic zone enthralled enclave
awash with random sun drenched blue pool plops
Where giddy children cast green hue pebbles
as dulcet birds tweet from gaunt elm twigs
and
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Categories:
spot, beautiful, beauty, environment, feelings,
Form: Etheree
X marks the spot
Monstrously Machievellian
Demonic pedagogic
Ominously Orwellian
Demagogic logic
Fools’ Musk-ovite mules
Zuckerberg zeitgeist heist
Dickensian dystopia rules
Google last post bugle
Fossil fuels myopia drools
Bellicose Bezos blows
Bro-ligarchy mates’ malarkey
Unions demonstrate
Amazon defenestrate
Hades Gates hierarchy
In the dock
Murdoch foxy skulduggery
Poxy TikTok runs amok
Crass puns..shock thuggery
This lot don't give a jot
.
Bitter sh**ter Twitter
Greedier needier seedier
The death of mass media
X marks the spot!
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Categories:
spot, corruption, discrimination, earth, political,
Form: Rhyme
Prime Spot Butterfly Cinquain
I’m off
to get closer,
you know where to find me.
Follow my voice to the front row!
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Categories:
spot, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Cinquain
X-Marks-the-Spot
X-Marks-the-Spot is a tickling game
Which is traced upon someone’s bare back.
In childhood, we played it and often it caused
A goose-bump filled giggling attack.
My kids got the treatment when bathtime arrived
And my grandson when he was a tot,
But it’s been a while since I’ve gotten the chance
To engage in some X-Marks-the-Spot.
Yet I came upon Henry, eleven
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Categories:
spot, childhood, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
God's Favorite Spot in the Universe
When a mother bird decides to build a nest
She selects a spot that she deems is best.
The sheer survival of her species rest
On the precious eggs she lays in that nest.
When God decided he would build a home
The entire universe He would comb
To find the spot that He knew would be best
For His image-bearers to
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Categories:
spot, bible, care, earth, god,
Form: Rhyme
7 Spot Winner a song
©7 Spot Winner - Artimus The Poet, Susan Manley 12/24/2024
Inspired by a meme and my boyfriend.
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Categories:
spot, computer, fun, funny love,
Form: Lyric
Sweet Spot
Sweet Spot
On the ever shifting sands of time
The spectrum of human action balances
On a fulcrum between extremes:
Total government and tyranny on the Left
Zero government and anarchy on the Right,
Two ways that on paper may look good
Until practice proves them otherwise.
And in the course of this rise and fall
Systems are engineered to cope
In waves of
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Categories:
spot, history, perspective, political, society,
Form: Narrative
when I spot a squirrel
When I spot a squirrel
It is never common, ordinary or naked
They are usually fully dressed without a smile
The one I spied this morning wore a blue shirtwaist
When she ran up a tree, I saw white eyelet on her pantaloons
I wisely keep some of these observations to myself.
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Categories:
spot, animal, humor,
Form: Free verse
saving your spot
we used to sit there with a pile of stones
throwing them hard
seeing which ones would make it farther
and that bench was halve rust
but you still loved it
sitting on the air if you must
oh, the trees are whispering your name
wishing you to come back and be here again
and then i see us on that bench
laughing and
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Categories:
spot, friendship,
Form: Ballad
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