Wokery, no just jiggery pokery
...Febrile Fog obfuscates palimpsest varnished promises..
Naysayers hoodwinked... deluded players peeling layers..denuded..
Deafening din of our chagrin...
Espoused by rabbles roused by mandari...
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Categories:
tuts, health, political,
Form: Rhyme
Mother and Daughter
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I wake to hear you crying, calling out to me.
I wearily open my eyes, it’s only half past 3.
I sigh, roll over, cover my ears, trying to ignore.
But your persistent need for me, just grows more ...
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Categories:
tuts, daughter, mother daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Nutty
...There once was a man nicknamed " Nutty "
It was down to the way he played Footie,
Each match he'd score ten
Again and again
Then he'd pop off for a pint and a butty.
Each family tree has its ...
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Categories:
tuts, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Last Word Poem - Bitter Now the Fall
...BITTER NOW THE FALLbitter now the Fall... Jack Frost cold
squirrels hoarding... burying nuts
jay's... birds... clever... stealing... so bold
listen... squirrel so irate... tuts...
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Categories:
tuts, autumn,
Form: Free verse
It's All How You Look At It
...While out on the playground sitting on grass
Teacher asked question of her third grade class
What will you all do
When you finish school?
Little Johnny replied quick as a flash
A tree is what...
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Categories:
tuts, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
Why Is It So Hard To Be Happy
...Why is it so hard to be happy
But so easy to be sad?
When I see how people treat each other
Sometimes it makes me so mad
It costs nothing to be civil
To make life easier for one another
Repay...
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Categories:
tuts, society,
Form: Rhyme
365 Uses For a Diary
...Every day is a page to write a new story
But isn't this life's diary?
Leather aroma
Tightly bound tome
Mint and crisp at birth
Becoming well thumbed and worn
Finally we reach the last page
As ...
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Categories:
tuts, funny, humanity, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Night At Our Museum
...OH Dragon! OH Dragon! You flewn the coup! Where have, you gone?
He watched ‘Night at the Museum’. Was that actually, so very wrong?
King Tut Exhibit’s in town; He should be in bed, not going there...
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Categories:
tuts, adventure, fantasy, funny, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Spoonfang the Pudding Vampire
...In the middle of the night,
When the moon shines bright,
A creature stirs with a terrible bite,
And his name is Spoonfang.
This vampire with a spoony face,
Has developed quite the taste,
Fo...
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Categories:
tuts, childhood, food, children, kids,
Form: Rhyme
Dame Street Messiah
...Weighty words wasted on the east wind
blowing down Dame Street
they don’t heed or even hear them
the footsore army of suits and students
the new Abraham or Jesus or Muhammad
cries out
but is ign...
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Categories:
tuts, metaphor, poetry, sad, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
A Pleasant Fall Evening In Rochester, Ny
...A small stretch of bar to call my own:
I cover it with my paper and a thin book of poems -
Most I don't understand at all
Some, unfortunately, I understand too well.
A TV in the corner
tut tuts 20 t...
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Categories:
tuts, people,
Form: Free verse
Gone and (Almost) Forgotten ......
...Lamentation for what you are losing.
A situation not of your choosing.
Powerless in its execution.
Watching from the shadows as
the scene unfolds before you.
A bag of broken promises
st...
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Categories:
tuts, lost love, heart, heart,
Form: Free verse