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The Witches of Wong Get Everything Wrong
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Andrew Pollard
| Rhyme |
warts, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
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The Witches of Wong Get Everything Wrong
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Andrew Pollard
| Rhyme |
warts, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
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Animal limerick
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Wendy Watson
| Limerick |
warts, animal,
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The Easist way to Start
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Randolph Byrd
| Free verse |
warts, best friend,
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The Sun Will Come Up
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Kurt Philip Behm
| Rhyme |
warts, age,
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Fortune Tellers
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Jack Ellison
| Limerick |
warts, nonsense,
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Caught a Con Template
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Rispetto |
warts, allusion, imagery, metaphor, slam,
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Inviting hills
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Aniruddha Pathak
| Iambic Pentameter |
warts, childhood,
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The Journey to the Cosmic Beyond
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Gary Bateman
| Canzone |
warts, allegory, death, god, heaven,
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It took a Lincoln, Warts and All
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Anil Deo
| ABC |
warts, america, angel, history, leadership,
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My crazy creatures
by Andrew Pollard
MY CRAZY CREATURES
This rhyme's about creatures of various sorts.
Creatures with fangs, hairy bellies and warts.
They cause lots of mischief all day long.
Mum always blames me...
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Categories:
warts, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Le Madam
by Andreas Simic
She is most like her age
Time having eroded some of her natural beauty
A few warts have appeared here and there in spots
Yet there is this...
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Categories:
warts, age, beauty,
Family Jazz Farmers
by Gerald Dillenbeck
I am reading Wendell Berry stories
again,
still,
today.
And notice
over these past several weeks
he unfolds two bipolar themes.
Berry is,
was,
a cooperative Southern neighborhood farmer
of organic hospitality.
His protagonists grow on...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
warts, dark, education, farm, light,
Hide the Details
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Everybody got a Hollywood life story
to tell
More meat on the bone
give juicier bites
to sell
Nobody ever turns in a tarnished silver screenplay
Those warts and mistakes
get...
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Vogon |
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Categories:
warts, allegory, fun, metaphor, word
Frog Valentine and Toad Response
by bh hallenburg
Valentine from my Mother in 1973:
If you see a frog sittin' in a tree,
Pull his tail and think of me.
My response:
Oh Toad!
Though butt of...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
warts, cute love, humorous, mother
Big long German words
by Nina Parmenter
Big long German words are such a banquet for the ears,
They’re scary on the page, but please, just set aside your fears!
For like those German...
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Categories:
warts, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
My Wise Owl Friend
by Sue Gallagher
She wouldn’t stand no nonsense, she wouldn’t take no bull
She wouldn’t pull no punches, she would tell me – warts and all
She really was a...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
warts, childhood, friendship, friendship love,
Reality TV
by Emile Pinet
I live in an improbable bubble, insulated from humanity’s ugly warts,
here there are still reasons to believe in God.
Of course I see what's on the...
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warts, angst, anxiety, feelings, how
Love's Blind Eye
by Jim Slaughter
Love always thinks it's chosen well,
Discerns no qualities to criticize.
In the loved one all is lovable,
And defects become virtues
In a lover's eyes.
To speak or write...
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Categories:
warts, love,
Refurbished Fairy Tales: Rapunzel and the really bad hair day
by Jim Slaughter
When fairy tales were in fashion, before true love was rare,
A prince wooed a maid who was flaxen and fair.
He came every day and patiently...
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Categories:
warts, humor,
Toad licking
by Mike Hauser
There's a colonel in most every town
And chicken he does know
But the youth of today are not finger licking
They're licking of the toads
When they run...
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Categories:
warts, drug, life,
Sports
by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Sports, sports,
I love sports
About as much
As venereal warts....
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Categories:
warts, hate, humor, irony, nursery
Warts And All
by Jonathan French
Too long the nights, too crass the sprites
That beckoned Bacchus blush
Cerebral touch, evading clutch
Leaves only busted flush
To close the gate, to wipe the slate?
Nothing to...
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Categories:
warts, i am,
At a Loss
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
The mental frames of the past were empty,
as were all thoughts of any permanence
Feelings of substance crushed into nothingness
by the grind of time
Aimless wandering...
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Categories:
warts, allusion, confusion, dark, perspective,
Reverse Universe
by PAT Adams
Slap and hit people and they won't be pals
Slag could be used to describe some gals
Parts of a lunch box could include a strap
Par for...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
warts, crazy, word play,
Change Aint Easy
by Richard Lamoureux
Change Aint Easy
We thought it was so simple back then
Things didn't need to have to make sense
different words were okay,
yep green on both sides...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
warts, boy, childhood, conflict, confusion,
Celebrate Imperfection Forget Identicalness
by MATTHEW harris
aye savor the faire genetic blueprint
extant unique to each of us
with this quite alimentary aire
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Free verse |
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Categories:
warts, blessing, care, celebration, how
WRITING WITH WEEPING WORDS
by Kim Rodrigues
WRITING WITH WEEPING WORDS
Lucinda runs through the forest,
runs past the barren fields, runs
past the lucid waterfall, runs
with her tears, leaving seeds of despair.
Roses with thorns...
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Romanticism |
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Categories:
warts, grief, lost love, writing,
STOP 'N GO
by Brian Strand
Moving pictures
one-by-one
animates.
Freeze-frame
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Imagism |
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Categories:
warts, film,
RECIPE: Poulet Roti French Style - Le Chant Royal - Instalment 2
by T Wignesan
RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 2)
Stanza ...
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Ballade |
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Categories:
warts, bullying, french, paris,