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:
woodshed, fairy, magic, music, princess,
Form: Other
We have to keep him he followed me home
...Little Larry came in using a wet puppy as an umbrella
He’s starving, he loves me, he is such a good fella
Where did you find him? He smells like wet dog
Behind Brewster’s woodshed, next to their h...
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Categories:
woodshed, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Naughty Nicola
...Nicola was naughty,
She wasn’t very nice,
She bit her mother,
And ate her white mice,
But Nicola’s brothers knew,
Exactly what to do,
They took her to the woodshed,
And sawed her in two....
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Categories:
woodshed, child, death, horror,
Form: Rhyme
The Family Fight Before Christmas
..."Who done did that?"
My dad had to know
I pointed at sister
Said, "She has to go!"
Dad wasn't impressed
Told me, "You get undressed!"
As off to the woodshed
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Categories:
woodshed, christmas, father son, giggle,
Form: Light Verse
Tiger In the Woodshed
...There's a tiger in the woodshed.
Safe and dark it lies,
Watching the night with
Brown and yellow liquid eyes.
The sleeper nestles in his bed,
The tiger kept outside.
No sudden urge will rais...
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Categories:
woodshed, addiction, dream, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Forsaken
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Pallor of a country worn
The woodshed all forsaken
With God our freedoms were assured
By governments we're taken
"Once a government is committed to the principle o...
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Categories:
woodshed, future, social,
Form: Rhyme
Blood Red Girl
...(to a blues riff)
You're a blood red girl
You're a blood red girl
You're a blood red girl, you're a woodshed girl,
You're a good good girl.
You're a good good girl
You're a good go...
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Categories:
woodshed, dog, music, riddle, sexy,
Form: Lyric
Earth Day 2021
...EARTH DAY 2021
Buy it a hat it’s going bald.
Today I bought DIRT….
top soil (allegedly)
sealed in plastic,
sold by the bag.
It claims to be infused
with microorganisms
and other good stuff....
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Categories:
woodshed, earth day, growing up,
Form: Free verse
The Truth Can Hurt
...It all comes down to peer pressure when you’re still in your teens.
You want to keep up with the Jones’ and you’ll go to any means
to put yourself into the limelight and be a member of the clique,
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Categories:
woodshed, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Intimidated By the Cat
...They got a dog and all was well
But the cat came after, straight from the bowels of
Well….
The dog had been generous with her time.
The cat took no prisoners.
Thought she was fine.
Cat put ...
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Categories:
woodshed, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Let Us Honor All Obnoxious Fools
...Let us honor where possible all of earth's fools
Who remind us that others view us the same way,
Who might also be brothers, if not on this day
Or the conflict this moment, prove friend in some w...
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Categories:
woodshed, faith, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Heartfire
...Winter warms me.
It’s not the fire
or the quiet cat on lap.
It’s certainly not,
the harried, hurried holidays.
The shroud of
same-making snow
(the compost pile is the car...
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Categories:
woodshed, philosophy, winter,
Form: Free verse
Malaise Is a Feeling Like Trump
...Malaise is a Feeling like Trump
Malaise is just feeling; you're feeling it too?
So many seem troubled, don't know what to do.
But knee-jerk reactors can't pass any test,
Their movements (more s...
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Categories:
woodshed, angst, anti bullying, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Prodigal Productions
...When I read the Prodigal Son story
I do my best to find my own story
empathizing with both brothers
as victims of injustices
learned through self and other punishment
and economically dominant p...
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Categories:
woodshed, brother, education, emotions, health,
Form: Political Verse
Beary Tales Episodes 7-14, Poet's Notes
...7. Playing With Fire
My mom IS quite clear on the dangers of fire,
But if boy'S hooked on flame, then it'S hard to obey,
There'S a longing for “MATCH GUN” (6) that most boys acquire,
Small...
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Categories:
woodshed, adventure, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Quatrain
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