The Empty Page
The Empty Page
It sat there at my student desk
In wait of task to tend.
Write a poem, the teacher urged,
Your thoughts to paper, penned.
Intently, I perused the sheet,
Pale white and yet unmarked.
It lay there teasing my first move,
“Don’t leave me unremarked.”
This paper, college ruled and prim,
Well-bleached and full of aughts,
Stared blankly back at me to
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Categories:
squeamish, 12th grade, age, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Skip This One If You Are Squeamish
If you have a weak stomach skip this one
Last chance.
Squeamish around gooey smelly stuff?
Second last chance.
Pass on by honey, and quickly.
My dog threw up today.
not once. Six times.
Each pile a little bigger than the one before it.
It was a coral color, and smelly. Gooey. Piles of it.
I got closer and saw pieces of partially eaten
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Categories:
squeamish, dog,
Form: Free verse
Jessy Big Girl Blouse Squirrel Squeamish
Chris
My mother shouted from the kitchen
Beckoning me
Look have you seen this
And pointed to
A dead squirrel sprawled out
on our front lawn
And it was still there the next day
But luckily for me before i had to
take care of it myself
I spotted my neighbors Mike
and Jimmy talking and said
to them have you seen this
what i found
And Mike
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Categories:
squeamish, slam,
Form: Free verse
Not For the Squeamish
Ominous shots sound far in the distance
Echoes lunge toward us grow ever near
Grim foes tear down the gates with persistence
In blows hurl wild flurries of ice cold fear
Relentless on our guard it's them or us
Gloomy skies foreshadow bloody skirmish
Nothing short of heated hellish chaos
This here turbulence ain't for the squeamish
Against front line action we
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Categories:
squeamish, angst, anxiety, conflict, death,
Form: Sonnet
Stoned--Not For the Squeamish!
The pain is like child birth, it hits sudden and hard
Don't try to endure go and get some help
Fluids help to flush the little prickly pear stone, down the internal pipes.
But it is not a quick and easy flush.
Think skinning your urethras open to urine's burn.
Time heals all wounds, lots of time...
Dedicated to all those
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Categories:
squeamish, health
Form: Light Verse
Cowboyin' Ain'T Fer the Squeamish!
A properly equipped cowpoke is bound to impress the boss.
He'll need a mount of course and a silver-studded saddle fer his hoss.
He'll need some chaps to protect his jeans frum them pesky burrs,
And his outfit wouldn't be complete without a fancy pair of spurs!
A wide-brimmed Stetson is needed fer shelter frum the searin' sun.
It's also
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Categories:
squeamish, cowboy-westernold, old,
Form: Rhyme