Pa Goose's Bedtime Stories - 1
...I was leanin' on the fence slurpin' a mug o' joe,
Admirin' my neighbor's garden and watchin' Harry hoe.
"Harry, Harry", I asked, "What makes yer garden grow?"
"I spread oodles of fecal matter on e...
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Categories:
wackier, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
An Astronomer Named Boone
...Once there was an astronomer named Boone.
Claimed he saw a cow jump over the moon!
That could not be verified.
Boone was later certified,
Poor man, to be wac...
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Categories:
wackier, humorous, moon,
Form: Limerick
More Than One Kind of Crazy
...Occasionally we should expose the wackier lobe of the brain
in order to better appreciate the more sensible side of the mind.
~THIS is one of those times...
I capriole betwee...
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Categories:
wackier, silly,
Form: Free verse
For Mr Kites Benefit
...Look at me, I am a kite
Clasp me firmly, but not too tight
My rainbow trail flickers among the light
Patterns of colour soar, swirling so bright
Amidst the howls of childish delight.
Air on a G-stri...
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Categories:
wackier, adventure, art, inspirational, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Five Decades of Doppelgangers
...I: in the 70s
At sixteen, looking through a magazine,
I came across the picture of a girl
whose character was Mary Ellen in
“The Waltons” show I watched on Thursday nights.
Her look was that o...
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Categories:
wackier, history, lifeme, me,
Form: Blank verse