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Ticky Poems - Poems about Ticky

Ordered discord
...Smeared In a pattern. This Rorschach abstraction. Flowing like satin. In cascading fashion. Symmetry, mimicry. Mirroring the mind. Coddling, throttling. Either or is fine. Full to burstin......

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Categories: ticky, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vanilla Is
...“Little boxes on the hillside; Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes on the hillside; Little boxes all the same” from first verse of “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds Vanilla Is . . . ......

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Categories: ticky, emotions,
Form: List



Hicky Ticky
...Hicky tricky De do DA uoo Honds mee ear all nit looon Ther noo pce o tha Minn Hicky tricky mee ll tha nit Ounds off restet dooog bunches us off Nooo ghtt of mooo to avvvail Ioses foom......

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Categories: ticky, 10th grade, abuse, angst,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa
...“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa” Spurred by mother dearest as well as other politesse drummed into her second born fobbing blandishments as incentive tumbled off fingers of prodigal son tr......

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Categories: ticky, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
No Roof For Reindeer
...No Roof For Reindeer The celebrated sailing frog from Montgomery County went a courtin, or so the tale iz toad to a grand ole mansion built around 1910, and e'en 'pon being razed ~2012 ah n......

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Categories: ticky, absence, adventure, animal, childhood,
Form: Rhyme



Among An Unnamed Female Person Known Within Mine Black Barbed Ken
...Among an unnamed female person known within mine black barbed ken Analogous to black box holding untold secrets, (after deadly plane crash no survivors except a journeyman foreigner), I shar......

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Categories: ticky, absence, angel, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
All In the Name of Progress
...All In The Name Of "Progress" The wrecking ball long since demolished boyhood house zen located at 324 Level Road, a once nonagricultural, pastoral, rural residence, which soulful yen I call......

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Categories: ticky, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Noises In the Morning
...scritter scitch scitter scitch dog’s tapping down the hallway to breakfast crinkle criggle crink opening the cereal whirr whirr whirr juicer is working hump thump bump cat throws herself again......

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Categories: ticky, morning, sound,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Memories
...Christmas time was the best memory under the pine tree. In South Africa we do not have a snowman and reindeers, Instead we celebrated it with cookies and ginger beer. Da......

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Categories: ticky, celebration, children, christian, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bread Is From Earth
...Deep warm-blooded Dark brown Multigrain Manna is from Heaven. Sometimes, OK, most times, I'm not actively building a cooperatively co-invested residential and environmental health system, ......

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Categories: ticky, community, earth, health, home,
Form: Political Verse
Lxii Years Old and He Still Carries a Security Blanket
...LXII+ years old and he still carries a security blanket Move over Linus Van Pelt of Peanuts fame, cuz yours truly also psychologically lame since prepubescence mine noticeably long hair de......

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Categories: ticky, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Solstice 2020 In Northern Hemisphere
...5:02 AM Eastern Time Monday, December 21 Location: 2 Highland Manor Drive Schwenksville, Pennsylvania 40.2562° N, 75.4638° W Daylight 7:21 am – 4:39 pm 9 hours, 18 minutes Mine circadian rhy......

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Categories: ticky, appreciation, celebration, christmas, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Three Blind Mice On Duty
...When I was only two bricks and a ticky high I wrote my first ever treatise Three blind mice unbeknown to me highly philosophical not just to please The Gods of poetry duty bound on their quest ......

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Categories: ticky, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Night of Rain
...'Tick', 'tock', 'tick', 'tock', the ticky-tocky click of the clock continued to beep 'Ree-raw', 'ree-raw', the roaring of the frogs was heard over and over in the deep I stood awake to solve a ri......

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Categories: ticky, art,
Form: Imagism
Remember Only This
...By the gloating rocks once its refuge, The sun wallows in scarlet rages; Glovers at the ticky-tacky cages, Who feel naught of the coming deluge From the lurching stream that knows no rest. Eac......

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Categories: ticky, analogy, anger, faith, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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