Bonanza of shamrocks will soon blanket Green Acres
...Bonanza of shamrocks will soon blanket Green Acres...
where Lassie free to run across petco junction
All across the webbed
wide esse Scott's landed wold
emerald green Trifolium
carpets harbor...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, adventure, appreciation, april, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Answer To Jack Ellisons-A Really Talented Old Soul
...Talented in closing every door
and drawer left open by my spouse.
Those beastly eyes from childhood;
doors and drawers under the bed, too.
Talented in tripping and spilling,
splashing and cont...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, humor,
Form: Free verse
Blinkn Winkn and Nod
...This looks like Blink’n Wink’n and Nod the old-timer said.
He was a lifelong reader, this guy we call Frankenstein Fred.
I thought it was Wink’n Blink’n and Sod, I said to rile him up.
He rolled h...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I Got It Going On
...I’m in my prime,
just now finding my steps,
working on all four cylinders,
I’m a pistol, as sharp as a pin.
I’m not Joe Biden
I look younger in aviators.
My teeth are brand new
and who needs h...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Parade of Silver Roses
..."You will come to the grave in full vigor, Like the stacking of grain in its season.
— Job 5:26
Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with ...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, age, beauty, grandchild, joy,
Form: Rhyme
I Can Do It Miss Deanna
...Deanna likes her old fashion pink plastic snap curlers.
Has brought them to Ethyl at the beauty shop since 1968.
Hair has survived fifty-one years of the same style
Unfortunately, when she gets ...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, death, death of a
Form: Narrative
Happy Fiftieth
...Congratulations! You've now lived
a full half-century.
I'll bet you're asking, "What's in store?
What changes will I see?"
As one well past her fiftieth,
I know a thing or two.
Sit back, rela...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, age,
Form: Verse
Parochial Propensities Promote Personal Pet Peeve
...Particularly pronounce abscess,
when rites of spring accursedness
prevails, asper testament, sans swell
scored psychological achiness
recording minecrafted history,
viz secreting acridness
p...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Shamrocks Blanket Green Acres
...All across the webbed wide esse Scott's wold
emerald green Trifolium
carpets harbor untold
burrows of tiny Leprechauns clover
(leaf) ways grant trifold
wishes if captured might
divulge pot of...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, adventure, blessing, cute, environment,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Crack of Dawn
...Up bright and early at the crack of dawn
Seems that's been my routine forever
Don't wanna waste a single damn moment
Don't wanna miss a single thing ever
Time seems forever when we're w...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, philosophy,
Form: Verse
A Rant
...I hate bad drivers and young whippersnappers
Who ignore old Bing and choose Gangsta Rappers.
The lack of good manners in young and old too
Makes me shake my grey head and wonder just who
Began th...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Cowboys and Millennials
...Look at all these cows that's runnin' free
You gotta stop sayin' OMG
Get around that group and head 'em South
Quit mumblin' LOL - shut your mouth
That bull you thought was your BFF
Is headed Wes...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, humorous,
Form: Couplet
My Jockeys In Tatters
...Now listen to me, you young whippersnappers
Got decades of experience in all worldly matters
Like the theory of relativity
Or keeping girlies in captivity
Just the thought of it leaves my...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, humor,
Form: Limerick
Today's Vocab Word Is Elderly
...I’m tempted to backhand the ones who call
us sixty-somethings old or elderly.
How dare they use such terms describing me?
Infuriating! Boy, do they have gall!
It’s fine to be solicitous...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, age, youth,
Form: Sonnet
A Legend In the Making
..."Youth has its benefits
And age its history
We can be capable and inexperienced
Or have libraries of knowledge
For viewing purposes only.
Who are you to choose both?"
Father was cruel and strict bu...
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Categories:
whippersnappers, celebrity, character,
Form: Free verse
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