TIME TO BE LIKE BEES
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TIME TO BE LIKE BEES
(A Freestyle Tanka Quintet)
Once feared allergy,
back in 1963,
gave wisdom to me:
Learned from the sting of a bee;
we need hiving unity:-
Researching bee ...
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Categories:
stapler, allegory, analogy, life, together,
Form: Tanka
making a vintage Valentines Day Box
...I collect the ingredients to make a fine valentines box
lacy white paper doilies, silver gummy stars, vintage valentines
a crisp new Sketchers Box in pristine shape
Elmer’s glue, a stapler, marker...
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Categories:
stapler, granddaughter,
Form: Free verse
An Unfinished List
...A “PAPA” coffee cup
Not quite as old as
Those who gave it to me.
An old metal stapler,
Part fastener, part weapon.
27 pencils which
Can never be found when needed.
Notes, scribbled cursive
Th...
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Categories:
stapler, humor, life, writing,
Form: List
Anthologiser
...I have this book on my desk where I
do all of my writing. It’s on this little
red bookshelf that I found on the side
of the road outside an antique store.
The book is called “Mid-Century French P...
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Categories:
stapler, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse
Ouch Prevention
...The world perfected toilet paper
~ before they thought of the stapler...
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Categories:
stapler, giggle, history, humor, time,
Form: Monoku
The Unconcious Trip
...After a confrontation with ben an old friend
I managed to push the violent fight for later in the day
Two thirty pm, to be exact I say
Couldn’t even go to lunch with the group that day
Then Ma...
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Categories:
stapler, angst, anxiety, dream, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Fallen Asleep
...Reaching for the Couch,
Laying for a snooze.
As fast as a wink,
The alarm clock buzzed,
Jerking my entranced body alive.
On the floor were documents, files, Stapler.
My table wore a differen...
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Categories:
stapler, memory,
Form: Free verse
Prissy Wedding Invite Gets a Schooling
...Inspired by a paperclip, the pen began to write
The clip danced a mean tango with a errant fork.
They were showing the room the time of their lives
When stapler began to click-clack, vying for att...
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Categories:
stapler, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Where Do You Get Your Ideas
...Where do you get these ideas? She asks; poetry is a daunting task.
See the apple, Playdough, pen, stapler, and bleach cleanser I ask?
I use them with “what if” and create a missive in seconds somet...
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Categories:
stapler, poetry, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
My Desk
...Kleenexes
Clorox wipes
A roll of tape
Kitty cat eyes on a pink pencil box
red apple peeks out behind yellow thermos
hand sanitizer
unused pencil sharpener because I forgot I had one
three fold...
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Categories:
stapler, work,
Form: List
Paper Second Version
...Were to go without paper
I'd never need
A pen or a ruler
of useful mead
That pencil, eraser
or stapler alike
Are ransom to all
a paper knows rike
And likened to glue
and compass that mig...
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Categories:
stapler, analogy,
Form: Quatrain
Paper
...Were to go without paper
I'd never need
A pen or a ruler
of useful mead
That pencil, eraser
and stapler alike
Are ransom to all
a paper knows rike
And likened to glue
and compass that mi...
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Categories:
stapler, analogy, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
From My Desk I See
...without moving anything but my eyes I see
a mouse pad, computer, power cord, phone
fork, knife, spoon, half eaten chunk of meatloaf
stapler, scissors, Clorox wipes
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kend...
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Categories:
stapler, work,
Form: List
Novice Teacher Mistake
...Was as a new teacher, Miss Prissy McClair
Put bulletin boards up standing on chair
Stapler fell down
Chair fell on the ground
She's upside down with her feet in the air...
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Categories:
stapler, humor, humorous, school, teacher,
Form: Limerick
Meeting Odd Little Alien Guy
...He is an odd little guy; looks distorted.
Having no fear, I approach him.
We speak through telepathy, not words.
He tells me time travelled from B.C.
How does he know that? I wonder.
He laughs...
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Categories:
stapler, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
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