Keeping Up With the Boneses
...Long before you were born, long before your great grandfather was born, in the time when magic was approximately eight times more plentiful than it is today, there lived a family in the remote part o...
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Categories:
woodpile, fairy, magic, music, princess,
Form: Other
Backwater Junction
...Backwater junction in a backwoods town
Rusty and creepier than a carnival clown
Timber rattlesnakes hide their slanted eyes
No one visits this woodpile, no big surprise...
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Categories:
woodpile, places,
Form: Rhyme
baby bunny
...single bunny eats
has whole yard as it's garden
plays in the woodpile...
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Categories:
woodpile, animal,
Form: Haiku
woodpile
...stacked against fence line
someone's hard work has paid off
winters work is done...
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Categories:
woodpile, winter,
Form: Haiku
Wine Country
...In a vehicle, once more this month. Though not going as far as the palm trees, my stomach’s lurching left and right. The baby’s alright! He coos from time to time as we weave through lovely soil and ...
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Categories:
woodpile, family, travel,
Form: Narrative
A Charlie Spring
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Spring is still kicking its heels,
in winters waiting room,
expectations unravel.
The squirrels are too awake,
there is no sign of sleep,
in their glittering eyes.
Magpies peck at a low c...
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Categories:
woodpile, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Imu Ground Oven
...Preparations for 'Luau' (LOU-ow) or a Hawaiian Party-like event, for a church Luau, would be a 'Ho'ike' (hoe-'E-kay). The hunters will tie the hind legs of whatever animal will go into an 'i'...
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Categories:
woodpile, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration,
Form: Narrative
The Woodpile
...Creep around the stacks of wood
To see if something's there
That shouldn't be there if it could
Before it vanishes into thin air
Watch it crawl away too fast
With a face of mud
Because its face...
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Categories:
woodpile, horror,
Form: Rhyme
The Wild Petunia
...I never expected you to come to Australia first
Still with the appearance that I am familiar
I must travel across the ocean back and forth
And you? I wonder how could you come here?
I saw you ...
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Categories:
woodpile, abortion, appreciation, feelings, flower,
Form: Free verse
Stars
...Mind like an acrobat
She sways precariously back
and forth with the constant influx of travelers
Who never seem to stay more than a night
Part with their cynical phrases
And compare her to a tr...
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Categories:
woodpile, angst, emotions, identity, mental
Form: Free verse
Frightened Rabbit
...I was not made for the hutch
No Wire fence to keep me in
A bedroom light my search light
I’m a Frabbit set me free
To these four walls I must conform
Someone’s else’s rules obey
Your life con...
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Categories:
woodpile, freedom,
Form: Free verse
That Cellar Door
...There is a woodpile in my in-laws’ cellar, and some coal, but other rumored things also.
And it has been there a long time since anyone tripped down these broken concrete steps.
Maybe twenty or thi...
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Categories:
woodpile, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Paint Her
...There stands the painter upon his hill
His wife is gone but not his skill
On each and every rainy day
He hunkers down for an outdoor stay
A woodpile serves him as his chair
From which he ca...
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Categories:
woodpile, absence, color,
Form: Couplet
Chum
...Hunger, gelid, frigid, no nighty,
In a long coldly winter night,
Needy for a so big woodpile
In dark, solo I had to chop
Details are good chop --
sticks chum pal up --
marks choc-ice !!!
Cho...
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Categories:
woodpile, adventure, cool, food, winter,
Form: Free verse
States of Transition
...Who were you today,
at your best moments?
Grouchy hermit
already missing quality dream times
and rhythms
when chimes greet pre-light's crust frosty dawn,
to get Yang, then Yin, up and out of...
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Categories:
woodpile, children, family, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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