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Premium Member Too much of a good thing sniffed
The farmer looked on sown fields with dismay, Be-spotted with tiny holes in despoiled array. Each spot where mice had dug up and eaten. Wheat seeds sown with mice-controls well beaten. The farmer had tried to poison the mice. Tried birds of prey once or twice. Tried cats and smelly scent deterrents, All to no avail to beat the endless recurrence. One night...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too Much of a Good Thing
We yearned for rain, for spring had been so dry. We got wet one day. Would things get better? The sun blazed so intensely in the sky. Only in the park’s pool could we get wetter. Then came the time of our celebration. We’d sweltered until Independence Day. A pelting rain caused no great elation, for picnics and fireworks that rain...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, rain,
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Too Much of a Good Thing
It’s great to see family on Christmas Day To watch the grandchildren so joyful and gay But next day I put my feet up and I say Boy, am I glad that they didn’t stay...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, christmas,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Too Much of a Good Thing
Freedom To write poems Anytime! ~ Diminished Excitement about that special Privilege...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, freedom, irony, loss,
Form: Cinquain
Too Much of a Good Thing
Some things are hard to define. When good turns to bad – It’s a fine line. Sarcasm steps over wit; As the imposter of a joke, Makes an indirect hit. Teasing which was once fun; Can morph into taunting, When enjoyed by just one. Assertion is an individual right, But, if it goes too far; A two-way fight. Honesty, seen as a positive thing; Sometimes is used as...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Too Much of a Good Thing
Too Much of a Good Thing When the ship´s cook had toothache and went to the dentist the crew and her captain ate at a hamburger joint near the docks and they loved it. As it appeared that the cook needed a new set of teeth that would take days; the captain hired the short-order cook at...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Too Much of a Good Thing
Two white rabbits arrived on Easter Sunday They sat in the basket, didn’t get away Until I woke and found them nestling there A wee young girl, I began stroking their hair As they grew older, there was a cage to clean The pellets they ate looked like awful cuisine Each day they went running through our enclosed yard Dad’s vegetable garden...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, animals, childhood, dad, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too Much of a Good Thing
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Categories: too much of a good thing, food
Form: Rhyme

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