Name Word Play Poems

Trying this new poem type
see if you can guess it
six syllables per line
true rhymes on third and fifth
which takes thoughtful design

Trying this new poem type
now...

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Little Miss Muffet loved her curds and whey,  
give me a box of cereal with cold milk and I will be on my way....

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When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped

We...

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The name 
mistakenly saintly, 
the other one 
a rite-of-life, 
a gauche passage 
for some, for most
the contract costly,
imprints its meaning 
post firey baptismal dive
to rise...

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Ogam
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Word Bank 2: animal names

This time the theme is picking an animal mythical or real and try to rhyme with a person's name. E.g. Doug...

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(The words in quotes are Ed Sheeran song titles.)

"Remember the name" you loved to repeat?
"Kiss me" again on Piccadilly Street.

Smell the "supermarket flowers---" lilies, roses,...

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amin
amine (i'm losing it people...lol; it's pronounced amin)
lin 
line(can one imagine, english lit teacherz, instructing their students to draw a 'lin', down the center uv...

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Peachy Keen was thrown into the ether by a young disc jockey
His name was Jim Hawthorne, and it was nineteen forty-eight
Hailing from Pasadena, California, he...

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If Australia  was a poem
It would be written in galloping Iambic
Full of characters leaning toward the laconic
Every line a simile, every name a diminutive

If...

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Serendipity, pollywog, persnickety, lemon, hog and peach
For these words I like to use I will give you six cents each.
Onward and upward, supercalifragelisticalidocious I like...

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Along a Jersey creek, somebody
Made a crazy find – 
500 pounds of pasta had been 
Somehow left behind.

Whoever dumped the noodles
(Mainly elbows and spaghetti)
Isn’t known,...

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soul wounds 
scars fails to form
pain seems to be the norm
storm after storm 
happiness in the eyes
when hope shies from its weak tries 
they said...

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decidedly despicable dastardly diabolical Dan
doing dismal, dour, demeaning deeds to frantic Fran
Forever frenzied fickle Felicity found her man.
Morose monochromatic Mel molding Typan.
Trixie totally tanked telephoning...

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"Dandylion" 

The guy was a 
Dandylion 
there was 
no denying it

full of promises
and making wishes
residing over 
this new world

poetically 
speaking, he
shone like 
the Sun

he sat...

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