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Sticklers
Sticklers Poems - Poems about Sticklers
Sticklers versus HippyDippys
...The Sticklers are rule-followers; they do seventeen weekly have-tos. There is no room for flexibility, or deviation from their parents’ teachings. Have to go to church, read the Bible, pray daily, ......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
sticklers,
life,
Form:
Free verse
Name Something You Might Find Written On a Bathroom Wall
...Ring the bells for me Fairytale clock keeper I wanted to meet a beautiful end of my own design But those sticklers at the bureau are obsessed with time I couldn't hold on to my youth , adulthood ......
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Kelly Hawkins
Categories:
sticklers,
angst, anxiety, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Three Little Lines
...1) haiku* untitled: october winds of scattered maple leaves ~ handwritten poems 2) a three-line poem titled: OF AUTUMN LEAVES AND ALL a three-line poem is open to free verse, allitera......
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Line Gauthier
Categories:
sticklers,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Jaywalker
...The city has evacuated the streets at this hour, and vacancy has given his unsteady feet right of way at every intersection. The traffic lights, sticklers for rules, continue color-coding prio......
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Bernard Chan
Categories:
sticklers,
betrayal, drink, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
The Mystery of Humpty Dumpty
...Too many questions, way too few answers Why would an egg wear blue pants, sir? And Wherefore his fall? Perchance he was struck with a lance, sir Or could it be he keeled over from cancer? B......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
sticklers,
humorous, mystery, myth, nursery
Form:
Rhyme
An Open Relationship
...Social settings have stigma attached to this. Atmospherically climactic negative correlations sustain society. Civilized individuals are naturally monogamous; serially… On the other hand gender......
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Ironic Zink
Categories:
sticklers,
assonance, relationship, social, society,
Form:
Didactic
Unquotable Quotes - Vi
...Unquotable quotes – VI (Note : A good many of the « epigrams » in this sequence of quotes are a take off on other well-known short poems, proverbs, sayings or expressions faites, etc . The rest......
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T Wignesan
Categories:
sticklers,
environment, fun, humor, humorous,
Form:
Epigram
Don'T Miss Out
...Father Christ’s encounter with the Pharisees never fail to entertain. Almost everywhere He preaches A few people would show up Trying to compromise His ministry To catch Him in violation of cus......
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Jacqueline R. Mendoza
Categories:
sticklers,
black african american, christian,
Form:
Light Verse
Brand Loyalty
...The toothpaste that I use is Crest. I cannot tell if Crest is best; But it’s the brand I’ve always used. A change would get my teeth confused. For laundry, what I buy is All; A prior brand I can’t r......
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
sticklers,
life,
Form:
Rhyme
Home and Hearth (For the Wise Children of Earth)
...Tell me the secrets to your life, bushman Show me how to befriend the garish land Guide me through nature’s surviving devotion Teach me with dry eye that knows no ocean Lead me to hope in battlef......
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Brandon Basson
Categories:
sticklers,
history, life, nature, people,
Form:
Couplet