Every Which Way
...Suzie lived next door to Tom, and their families were the best of friends;
Like toffee clouds, chasing rainbows, once the blue storm wildly spends!
Tom and Susie enjoyed playing together,...
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Categories:
vacationed, children, fantasy, friend, fun,
Form: Couplet
Frosty’s Vacation
...Frosty really loved to travel you know,
but couldn't go to a place with no snow.
All his friends heard him chatter
"This is snow laughing matter!
Maybe Antarctica's where I should go!"
On the ...
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Categories:
vacationed, christmas, humor,
Form: Limerick
Vacationing in Saint-Tropez
...He vacationed with his girlfriend in France,
Where, on the beach, he averted his glance.
Ignoring all the heat,
He kept cool and discreet,
While he carefully adjusted his pants.
'Twas praisewo...
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Categories:
vacationed, beach, humor,
Form: Limerick
I Have Lived
...I HAVE LIVED
I HAVE NEVER sky dived, parasailed or zip-lined
I HAVE NEVER had a pedicure, manicure or facial
I HAVE NEVER smoked a cigarette or pot or done drugs
I HAVE NEVER chugged a “shot glas...
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Categories:
vacationed, heart, journey, life, love,
Form: Free verse
From One Castle In the Sand
...They were walking on the beach one morning…together hand-in-hand…when, overwhelmed by a memory, he stopped in front of a castle in the sand.
“Do you remember,” he whispered, “when we built our fir...
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Categories:
vacationed, love,
Form: Rhyme
Castles In the Sand
...For years we vacationed on Florida's west side
Building castles in the sand like the Chåteau de Versailles
Was proud as punch
Till some kid on it jumped
Thought it funny till momma tanned...
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Categories:
vacationed, kid,
Form: Limerick
Segovia and Or Madrid
...I vacationed in Segovia
and also spent downtime in Madrid
but which is why matters not where
for I forgot what I there did.
My days spent in Segovia
and in Madrid were solo
though I cannot pr...
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Categories:
vacationed, adventure, character, city, confusion,
Form: Light Verse
Her Life As a Poem
...She was big-boned. Her spirit
a fine-spun sprouting of prairie brome
threaded through moss and engine block.
Her home was a pine and beatboard camp
for wayward cats.
She would discourse from he...
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Categories:
vacationed, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Wee People of Cork
...There once was a young lassie from Cork
Who vacationed a time in New York
She met there a young man
Who made fun of her land
And he called the Wee people O'Rourke
Well, he took her to bed to a...
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Categories:
vacationed, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Santa Has the Best Job
...The elves had been loading Santa’s sleigh for the night.
The reindeer were all prancing about, with delight.
With Santa aboard, a loud, “Ho-Ho”, did ring;
on the crispy, cold air, as ...
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Categories:
vacationed, celebration, christmas, december, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Santas Secrets
...There are many secrets tucked
Carefully away at the North Pole;
Santa hides them on purpose, so
You’ll never find them.
Things like the special camera
He uses to check on children...
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Categories:
vacationed, celebration, childhood, christmas, december,
Form: Imagism
The Nudge
...Desolation smoothed at the calming of the swell,
begrudgingly accepted solitude, vacationed in Hell,
nails are sore and broken from the scratching of the well,
strengths gained through weakness? ...
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Categories:
vacationed, loneliness, lonely, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
The Boss Up In the Tower
...The Boss Up in His Tower
By Franklin Price
12/8/2016
The boss up in his tower, and the worker down below
Had somehow disconnected, how it happened who's to know
Been together since conception...
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Categories:
vacationed, business,
Form: Rhyme
Her Name Too Sweet To Mention
...AND from the bell tower
of my lonely brain
i have seen life down
(as) little heads
with stalk-like legs
whose long shadows
walk along these days
they are odd ones
and when i meet ...
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Categories:
vacationed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bored In Manhattan
...There was a street walker
Who was quite a talker
She vacationed in a place called Manhattan
But the people spoke no French or Latin
When she spoke Monsieur and Oui Oui
She was s...
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Categories:
vacationed, confusion, funny,
Form: Rhyme
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