whiz kid inventors
...Our inventions long ago surpassed the wheel and fire
paper, compass, printing press, penicillin, rubber tire
vaccines, light bulbs, electricity, radio, and colored tv
rockets, air conditioning, fi...
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Categories:
whiz kid, life,
Form: Rhyme
Boring Teacher and Whiz Kid
...Feeding a child with what he knows already !
Hasn't this been in many good schools steady?
A child finds it fine acting unconcernedly,
Teacher is sure it's time to be unfriendly,
The child soon...
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Categories:
whiz kid, bullying, change, child, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
An Algebra Poem
...Every now and then I am asked to write a poem…an honor for which I feel blessed…
but yesterday, in all honesty, I received a very strange request.
I recently wrote a poem on how basic math relate...
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Categories:
whiz kid, humor, math,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic Thoughts On Crossing the Delaware River
...There were two
Acting role written as ‘cool’
One from the first state
Other an empire whose façade outside looks great
Table chances inside the beachside resorts
A drive through free federal hig...
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Categories:
whiz kid, america, appreciation, patriotic, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Making Millions and Friends
...There was a whiz kid
Skilled at making a bid
Getting all the right deals
Being earnest never needing to steal
Took a day off
Claiming he had a cough
Sneaked out to his favorite watering t...
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Categories:
whiz kid, america, drink, friend, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
A Gifted Niece
...What pride and joy for me to delight,
albeit vicariously upon receiving invite,
sans commencement at
Redmond Proficiency Academy
on May twenty second at six o'clock at night,
which arrangement t...
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Categories:
whiz kid, 12th grade, america, angel,
Form: Elegy
The News Seller
...Callum is an old-fashioned man on the verge of becoming history’s memory
Ancient even in that he holds only one job but that is for privation of another
Sort of a whiz kid at what he does and ...
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Categories:
whiz kid, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Lagos
...ISALE EKO (LAGOS)
A rooster of discrete tongues
Culture, tradition
Where,
Zillion specters resonate
Quantum croak.
Cock crow,
Erupts whirl, barge at Alaba
Descry of sea of soul cases
Kibb...
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Categories:
whiz kid, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Lickety Split
...Long ago when I was young
I found cycling so much fun.
Climbing hills in fifth gear.
Keeping fit gave so much cheer.
Easily overtaking slower folk.
Teasing all those younger blokes.
Yes, a whiz...
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Categories:
whiz kid, endurance, how i feel,
Form: Acrostic
Cafe Shade Rights Reserved
...Cafe shade rights reserved
This café serves in summertime,
Flowers abloom,
There’s always a cup on the table,
Atleast one chair in the room
The artist walks in,
twirling soon,
Picture menu,...
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Categories:
whiz kid, celebration,
Form: Light Verse
The Man In the Waistcoat
...West coast, east coast
This question is for you in the waist coat
What about us in the mid-west?
People like to boast
Pork and beans and roast beef
And other simple stuff
Like dumplings and t...
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Categories:
whiz kid, addiction, allusion, chicago, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
The Finer Points of Going Number Two
...We’re lucky to have a math-whiz kid
And one day this is what he did.
He said we all know about going number two
Now I’ve sorted out the decimals too.
First, there’s the basic, number two
Whi...
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Categories:
whiz kid, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Have You Tried My Slushie
...Have You Tried My Slushie? By
Briar Rabbit
I don’t know if it brings the boys to the
yard
I’d want some time to myself
I think..
I think of angel dust
while
libe...
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Categories:
whiz kid, freedom
Form: Free verse
Typewriter
..."The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
Nine small words have leaped right through the decades.
Jumping through my brain
Thumping t...
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Categories:
whiz kid, education, high school, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse