small table inside my front door
...Garage door opener
Ice cream carton
Pencil, erasers, pencil sharpener
Magazines
Tv remote
Gummie pills
Magic markers
Towel
Black sock
Gray sandal
Sketch pad
Twinkie wrapper
Snickers bar
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Categories:
tape measure, me,
Form: List
Tape Measure
...Tape Measure
The very deep breathing of
the tape measure continues to
affect my
USB holders cha-cha rehearsals.
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Categories:
tape measure, humor,
Form: Free verse
just a girl
...Shes just a girl!
She holds her childhood close, says the stuffed bear waiting for her on her pillow
She wants to be a good student, says her desk piled with completed assignments
She loves bright...
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Categories:
tape measure, 12th grade, anxiety, depression,
Form: Alliteration
So Toolish!
...As years have passed and I’ve amassed
More tools than I know I need,
I have to stress that I’m impressed with
The roles and goals they fulfill.
I love the hours with power tools
And hand-held ...
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Categories:
tape measure, character, integrity, truth, wisdom,
Form: Alliteration
Sex Almost Every Day
...My cousin-in-law’s grandma was at a party. She says, “Me and my husband had sex almost every day.” I think some of us fell out of our chairs. So she goes on, “Almost on Monday, almost on Tuesday…”
...
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Categories:
tape measure, humor,
Form: Prose
My Friend Sharon
...My friend Sharon is the same as me as
we have decided to let it all hang free.
No more corsets or underwire
because we feel we are still on fire.
Without recourse to peer pressure
or need to ...
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Categories:
tape measure, age, blessing, friend,
Form: Rhyme
The Bird Box
...It’d been a long day at work
So he sat in the sun
Enjoying the beer he’d earned
The day finally done
Closing his eyes he relaxed
When a persistent peep
Interrupted his dreaming
And he starte...
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Categories:
tape measure, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Ooops, That Scale
...
That day, I was on my scale, thought I was fat?
Till I realized, i was holding two, five pound cats!
Scales are deadly, for women, it is proven true.
Use ...
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Categories:
tape measure, encouraging, humor, women,
Form: Couplet
The Mouthy Tape Measure
...Santa’s workshop was full of singers of every kind of voice.
The loudest one that sounded like gravel was my cousin Joyce.
She was wrapping and humming, and they all sang along.
We are in the best...
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Categories:
tape measure, humorous,
Form: Monorhyme
Audition
...They examined me with tape measures in their eyes as I entered
superimposing famous female faces over my own in their minds
like pictures printed on clear plastic sheets
placing one atop another o...
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Categories:
tape measure, beauty, career, celebrity, film,
Form: Free verse
No Homework
...I’m sorry I’ve no homework,
But it’s really not my fault,
I tried hard all last week to do it,
But got such a jolt!
Sat down to do my homework,
It was history that day,
The theme was myths and ...
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Categories:
tape measure, homework, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Enthusiastic Amateur
...ENTHUSIASTIC AMATEUR
I am lying here trapped and need some assistance,
And all because of my husband’s persistence.
“You don’t have to buy any bookshelves,” he said.
“I’ll pu...
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Categories:
tape measure, books,
Form: Rhyme
Gratification
...A Scot had once been quite handsomely built
Now with corona did not fit his kilt
Ate all he could find
With more on his mind
Became rotund and his manhood did wilt
Isolation made th...
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Categories:
tape measure, conflict,
Form: Limerick
Members Only
...They say that the average US member is 160mm long,
don't rush for the tape measure - it might be wrong;
I'm not sure if that applies to the innuit as well,
just because they're a bit short, you ne...
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Categories:
tape measure, cute love, encouraging, environment,
Form: Prose
Laundering Her Accounts
...New England's late May sun was long up,
and yet her laundry began to unfold
and clip onto the droopy clothesline,
while yet to warm into 8 AM.
She wore a light spring jacket
and need not think...
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Categories:
tape measure, analogy, destiny, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
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