My Bicycle of Imagination
...My Bicycle of Imagination
The day and I are hand in hand,
brimming with a zippety-whippity-do.
I sit atop my saddle, my bicycle, my hill;
the morning mist is ragged like candy floss
on barbed...
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Categories:
waggled, fun, imagery, imagination, morning,
Form: Free verse
be afraid very afraid
...They saw me in the pet store window
They looked friendly enough
I wiggled and waggled and showed them my stuff
Let’s get that puppy! The man said
I wanted a different kind said the wife
The hu...
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Categories:
waggled, dog,
Form: Free verse
Caterwauling Disrupted Peace of Mind and Jeopardized Mine Body Electric
...A couple nights ago
(today being August 4th, 2021)
while walking around the parking lot after dark
over yonder shrieking catcall heard - hark
at first methought, a baby experienced distress,
I i...
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Categories:
waggled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Love Is a Fire That Doesn'T Burn
...the love in
strong fire
if consumed,
simmering
lost...
Because it's another one,
the fire of love...:
it's hot flame
that doesn't burn,
just kindle...
It's fire that
expands and does not
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Categories:
waggled, allegory, allusion, confidence, fire,
Form: Free verse
Wildlife 30
...Wildlife 30
A jay who was quite cavalier,
Was afraid people thought he was *****,
Other birds would just gloat,
At his colourful coat,
And the way that he waggled his rear!...
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Categories:
waggled, bird, funny,
Form: Limerick
Tuxedo Le Cat
...And Grandpa, you have to wear a tux, my little grand-princess said.
I thought she was crazy, daft in the head.
I was miffed, corn-waggled, flabbergasted at least.
Honey, you don’t put a tux on the...
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Categories:
waggled, granddaughter, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan Poe
...On the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready to snap if I counted more sheep.
I rose ...
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Categories:
waggled, christmas,
Form: Narrative
The Lost Airmen
...The mission had been a close run thing
The Japanese had thrown up quite a sting
They had sent up their fighter planes
And the anti-aircraft fire like leaden rain
The other aircraft in Bombing S...
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Categories:
waggled, death, war,
Form: Ballad
Peaceful Existence
...we are fascinated
by the cells and the systems
now here
white dog waggled her
half cut tail
divine occupance here
for a very short while
wiping the tears
electromagnetic force of
the existe...
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Categories:
waggled, allegory,
Form: I do not know?
Beulah Bedford's Wedding Day
...In the sizzling sun, Miss Beulah took a run in her wedding shoes.
Her groom, Walter, waggled at the alter, propped up by booze.
When the preacher couldn't reach'er, Walter fell flat on his head.
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Categories:
waggled, change, wedding,
Form: Light Verse