Turning Five (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
No longer the same little girl or is she, the same, really? An impish grin, cunning, negotiating a better deal ...
No longer the same little girl or is she, the same, really? An impish grin, cunning, negotiating a better deal ...
We walked from court, attorney and client, He had a big grin on his face good thing, since he didn't ...
A Cheshire cat with chiclet teeth rectangular rows smiling grin all teeth, just as she is, each night after brushing ...
Hair just so in her pretty pig tails Don't you know "How do I look, daddy?" Drips from her lips ...
When Willie was a little boy, No more than five or six, Right constantly he did annoy His mother with ...
Young Lochinvar came in from the West, With fringe on his trousers and fur on his vest; The width of ...
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately Pace, ...
I'll tell you the story of Balbus, You know, him as builded a wall; I'll tell you the reason he ...
APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to ...
TWELVE o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of ...
WEBSTER was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward ...
I put two yellow peepers in an owl. Wow. I fix the grin of Crocodile. Spiv. I sew the slither ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
DO' a-stan'in' on a jar, fiah a-shinin' thoo, Ol' folks drowsin' 'roun' de place, wide awake is Lou, W'en I ...
That after Horror -- that 'twas us -- That passed the mouldering Pier -- Just as the Granite Crumb let ...
How do you win a football game? Not by skill alone or clever plays, in modern days the game has ...
It was the days of the slow roll, times when we dextrously dressed our hand-rolled cigarettes with a dearth of ...
It's a ruling from the field of pain (devoid of antique nave, a judgement process aptly named 'benefit of doubt'); ...
Let's talk about the weather then, would that help you take your ease? Gossip is so rare from you the ...
October. Here in this dank, unfamiliar kitchen I study my father's embarrassed young man's face. Sheepish grin, he holds in ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! ...
I have a fairy by my side Which says I must not sleep, When once in pain I loudly cried ...
Our mascot lives low, a baby alligator. She's our happy-and-sad mask all at once, Mona Lisa her name. She's my ...
...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece of ...
This is the lay of Ike. Here's to the glory of the Grewt Whiteâ?"awkâ?" who has been runningâ?"erâ?"erâ?"things in recentâ?"echâ?" ...
The Russian grin bellows his condolence tó the family: ah but it's Kay, & Ted, & Chris & Anne, Henry ...
we like to shower afterwards (I like the water hotter than she) and her face is always soft and peaceful ...
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