Four men in restaurant
...
The first man had a wife,
Helped him with dressing and strife.
Kept his sweets near,
Made sure he never looked over here.
The second man and his wife,
In baggy ill-fittin...
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Categories:
squirreling, 12th grade, anger, community,
Form: Free verse
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
...Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while able bodied and mindedness
readies cemetery pl...
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Categories:
squirreling, addiction, age, angel, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Squirreling-
...I am a squirrel
Brown black as the ground
I tumble Flip and Flop
Birds chase me
I gather nuts to eat
Other rodents not as pretty
I can leap from tree to tree
limb to Limb
I...
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Categories:
squirreling, adventure, animal,
Form: Free verse
Quiescence Pervades Medulla Oblongata
...Outward brain stem hummock
analogously, (asper bound
minuscule magnum opus)
figuratively paginated with drowned
atavistic animal instincts
roar back to life upon found
perceived or real threa...
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Categories:
squirreling, appreciation, blessing, encouraging, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Just a Rabbit H Opping
...In a kingdom full of turkeys
I heard a splendid fluffy ducking
I am just a rabbit hopping
Floating my passions wet and scaly goldfishing
Surrounded by violent guppies
I am just a rabbit...
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Categories:
squirreling, adventure, analogy, animal, engagement,
Form: Free verse
What Happens After
...O COVID with the MO-VID, you murder bug,
Your sweet quarantine champions my gloom.
Never the buff of a handshake or hug,
Serene in the still of my fond hermit room,
Blessed detention, the liberty...
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Categories:
squirreling, cousin, solitude,
Form: Sonnet
My Pet Peeve Is Selfish Greed
...my pet peeve is
selfishness
taking it all
not sharing
hoarding
being greedy
squirreling it away
in a mean way
letting it rot
not caring
that others don not have
Not caring that many
sta...
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Categories:
squirreling, angst, anxiety,
Form: List
Contagion
...People are hurrying, scurrying, worrying
Frenziedly squirreling clusters away.
Rumbling hypotheses riding on every breeze
Cast a malificent shadow our way.
Spreading pervasively, sneakily, rapi...
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Categories:
squirreling, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Ominous Nighttime Foray
...Crow's claws carrion campy carping
nsync nocturnal teenage mutant ninja turtles
analogous to scuttling
(think) browed beastie boys scarab beetle
brandishing sharp small scabbard swords
delight...
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Categories:
squirreling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Blitz
Brotherly Bummer Plods Along His Staid Usual Humdrum Life Part One
...Methinks lame excuses poorly explain
absent presence gnosh hoe wing up to
acknowledge our papa's ninetieth orbit
around sun, nor dearly beloved eldest
commencement successfully, modestly,
honest...
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Categories:
squirreling, grief, heartbreak, hello, husband,
Form: Free verse
The Story of a Squirrel Who Wouldn'T Share and of a Blue Jay That Did
...
The Story Of a Squirrel Who Wouldn't Share
And Of a Blue Jay That Did
By: Tom Wright
2/11/00
Near our Pear tree a heap of nuts
I placed upon the ground,
and it came to me as no surp...
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Categories:
squirreling, bird, humor, nature,
Form: Lyric
Caprice 1, Venting 2
...The stars are not so far.
You may pluck them
like berries, and pop them in your mouth
and they will twinkle on your tongue,
or you can put them in your pockets like candies,
or carry them home i...
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Categories:
squirreling, adventure, angst, deep, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Anemic Checking Account
...This Citizen Banker
safely in his compound doth attest,
sans donning his typical
gabbling and trumpeting ways,
while legally tendered,
currently being cents
less l...
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Categories:
squirreling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Quiescence Pervades Medulla Oblongata
...outward brain stem hummock
analogously, (asper bound
minuscule magnum opus)
figuratively paginated with drowned
atavistic animal instincts
roar back to life upon found
perceive...
...
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Categories:
squirreling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Hollow Tree
...The hollow tree of a man, squirreling things away the best he can, ...
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Categories:
squirreling, bereavement, death, desire, father
Form: Rhyme
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