Rats in the Cellar
...Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree,
things aren't the same as they used to be.
When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail,
I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale.
Such an inj...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Hap Hazards
...
I've never been good with things.
Electric toothbrushes need a lot of thought,
Some honey jars
need more passion to open then I have.
Putting things together
is not my thing.
I break easy wh...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Brief History of Toothbrushes
...Sitting in a coffee shop,
slatted chair back creaking as she chews
on the knock-knock joke of a long ago
eating popsicle.
It’s a hot day.
She says that before the modern
toothbrush, people ...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, love,
Form: Free verse
Bottom of the Barrel
...Imagine a standard barrel of crude oil – 42 gallons.
The barrel unit of measure dates back to 1859
When Pennsylvania oil wells were first drilled
And the wooden ‘tierce’ wine cask
Holding 42 gall...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, environment,
Form: Didactic
Something Ordinary
...The cat sat on the footstool.
The curtains hang closed.
The toothbrush holder contains two brushes
The cat stretches, jumps down, miaows at the door.
The moon is full
Bush freshens the air
Cat ...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, beautiful, cat, pets, sweet,
Form: Free verse
Damned Dentist
...Faeries with toothbrushes fly into my dreams
Maybe my mouth is not as fresh as it seems?
Faeries with wide open angry gapping gums on moonbeams.
Dropping ugly impacted wisdom teeth in clean mounta...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Poetry Contests Are Silly
...Poetry contests. How ridiculous. Silly even. It is like comparing:
dogs with underarms,
underarms with toothbrushes,
toothbrushes with giraffes,
giraffes with garden parties,
garden parties wi...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: List
What Have You Lost
...backpacks, rugs, shoes, a couch or two, lots of junk from a junk drawer,
what kind of junk?
Just general junk.
Can you itemize it?
pennies,
scissors,
toothbrushes,
matches,
pens,
eyeglasses...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, fun,
Form: Free verse
My Love For Words
...Words are arbitrary,
Who says that is a W?
But who NAMED it?
Could not a W have been written as a Y?
Once upon a time, when someone created an alphabet?
Could not a 7 have been an S?
Liberating...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, perspective, poems, poetry, word
Form: Free verse
Dream Series: the Toothbrushes
...Couple nights ago I dreamed Rhonda came home with about 100 toothbrushes of all sizes small to large, all colors, each one wrapped in clear plastic. She held them out to me like a bouquet of flowers ...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, art, dream, love, morning,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bathroom Hijinks
...Poised to dive into the drink below
the deodorant on the shelf above put on a show
while the toothbrushes looked on with a big grin
the deodorant dove like a champ and took a swim,
The toothbru...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, adventure, house, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Poems For Trump Number 50 Cousin Donald
...Cousin Donald Comes to Town ...
Elroy was all cock-a-hoop cos
cousin Donald was a-comin'
a visiting & they were so darn
chuffed & tremblin' in anticipation
that friday night the seven of them
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Categories:
toothbrushes, political,
Form: ABC
Runaway Studies Books of Her Idol In Library
...To diary:
Mama, by now, I suspect you are on my trail
to Phoenix, however I do think you figured
it all out-the red herrings... and are instead
on the right path to Seattle. A part me wants
to...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, courage, dark, daughter, growing
Form: Rhyme
Meteorological Clap Flap Ha
...Oooh look. Oh wow. Correlating jumping twists and combinations of bunnies,irons,toothbrushes and eye lash curlers. Turn then a stick. Rotational gravitation and melodically performed interludes. Such...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, autumn, beach, birthday,
Form: I do not know?
I May Be Developing An Ed
...Over the past five days I have eaten nothing more than one thousand calories.
My hunger fueled me to keep going.
The stomach pains made me feel beautiful.
Doing cardio would make me light-headed, ...
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Categories:
toothbrushes, addiction, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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