To Write Like You
...TO WRITE LIKE YOU
May be one day I can write
like others and then like you.
First must learn poetry forms that exist.
Oops, so many why I get so confused,
which of these ones Emile used will ...
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Categories:
squatty, confidence, courage, poetry, success,
Form: Verse
For the E By the S By the E - Nursery Rhyme
...First heard the call when three.
Pet store said come and see
and mommy did agree,
every child should have a puppy.
Wanted to get you all the toys,
while blue still ok for boys,
even got us pe...
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Categories:
squatty, animal, caregiving, children, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Naughty Brother Bobby
...Inspired by Real Life Brother Billy, My Halloween Candy Thief
Every year when it is sweet Halloween time,
my selfish big brother commits the same crime -
he quick gobbles hi...
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Categories:
squatty, brother, chocolate, funny, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
All Ass
...She's short and squatty, all ass, no body
Looks like this one's gonna end up bawdy
Out of control
The censor patrols
Gonna get me unless they're into the hot toddies...
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Categories:
squatty, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The Kelvinator
...Evening has quietly tiptoed away on slippered feet
Houses up and down the street are silhouettes
A garden looks white- washed in moonlight,
And the faint sound of a train whistles through t...
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Categories:
squatty, childhood, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Chew's Ranch
...I had an aunt and uncle
We called them Boo and Chew
They had ranch in West Texas
Where they grew a crop or two
They had no city water
A windmill was their thing
Summer is hot and dusty there...
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Categories:
squatty, people, places
Form: Quatrain
Dandy's Cuckoo Clock
...On a spotty, sprinkled day, at the Plott's house on the block,
A squatty Uncle Scotty had sent a polka dotted, cuckoo clock!
The family said "That's handy!", and found a spot upon a shelf
For the...
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Categories:
squatty, childrenhouse, house,
Form: Rhyme
Beauty Queen Or Garden Gnome?
...You say that you can picture me sitting in my chair.
What is it that you picture when you look from over there?
Do you envision beauty or an ugly, wrinkled hag?
Does my skin give off a glow or d...
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Categories:
squatty, confusion, friendship, funny, life,
Form: I do not know?