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Ode To A Buzzard (Or Why I'D Love To Be A Buzzard)
Watch a buzzard soarMoving without effort.Just a flick of the wing and a turn to the left or rightTakes nothing to remain in flight.Maybe a shifting..
© Sidi Mahtrow
October The Post Office Cat
Some thought she was a strayThat had come for scraps along the wayThat might be left from the lunchOf the post office staff; a kindly bunch.But..
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Nutgrass
Looking across the verdant greenGrass growing everywhere it seemsJust emerging from winter's sleepSoon to be ankles and knees deep.But something's..
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Not All Hoggs Are The Same
As we approach this Christmas seasonIt’s time to take time, and reasonThat on the table will appearA feast for all to share.In the center midst the..
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Nose Picking Nerds
Some fingers have a special placeIn which they often raceAs only one can beIn the opening you cannot see.Which reminds me of another rhymeAbout..
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News That's Fit To Print
Words and pictures on paper appearTo shape the sense of pending fearRather than report happenings as they occurredWriters politicize with many a..
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Nevermore
that poe fellow made muchof the raven of which he wrote a bunchturns out he and nevermore the firstwere frequent visitors quenching thirstin a tavern..
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Nantucket
Met a lady from NantucketWho kept all her dreams in a bucket.When I asked where she was going,Said, "Away from this place, it's so boring."And, for..
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Nancy And Harry's Maginot Line
Digging deeper into debtWith no plans to end it yetThey only see spending.That's the hand they're playing.Their supporters with hands properly..
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My Favorite Poet
Who can it be?One with a message, certainly.But wait, perhaps a bit of poignant thoughtOr maybe memory overwrought.No, that's not what I put highest..
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My Banker
Was at the bank making a depositDidn't have my checkbookShe said, 'No problem.'Your driver's license please.In a flash she'd filled in the..
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Mutilation, Aggrandization Or Is It Enhancement?
No part of the body is immune:From the practitioners of the artTo reshape the clayThat birth did impart.From the top, there's hair dyeAnd if that's..
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Musth
It’s that time of yearWhen they come out with nothing to fearActing as if they are “king of the hill”Knowing not the way to pass a bill.In their..
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Mud Babies From Biloxi
The southern clay is fit for turningSo this artist commence the fires to burning.Now pottery was a dime a dozen in the storeWhich meant that there..
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Mr. Slithers
Lying quietly by the fireMr. Slithers showed no careWarm and cosy was heWith no concerns about eternity.Once he had made a big mistake whenHe emerged..
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Mr. Goldstone Don'T Live Here Anymore
Remember whenHe and his wife moved in.Into the condo on the fifteenth floorWho could ask for more.Sold out to their son(Graduate of Harvard!) in..
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Mother's Day
I don't know why it's so hard to findA 'greeting' card of a different kind.One that is simple, yet so directThat is tasteful and not suspect.A card..
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Morning
Sometimes at this time of yearI get up to go to the bathroomWhen you're 77 almost 78Nature calls and you answer.On the Myakka PrairieIt's never..
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Moon Rise On The Myakka Prairie
In the early mornA sighting of the moon was bornCaught in the radiance of the sunA near eclipse on the wane.Tomorrow on the distant horizonAway from..
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Moon Pies, R C's And Tom's Peanuts
Enter the half-dark gloomOf Riddlesperger's storeAnd adjust your eyes.If your nose is a-twitching,From this exercise,Perhaps you'll come to notice..
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Moon Arising
In the early mornA sighting of the moon is bornCaught in the radiance of the sunA near eclipse on the wane.Tomorrow on the distant horizonAway from..
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Mole Crickets
Never did God devise such a critterOne that creates, like man, a disasterFor the cricket for all its lifeMines the soil and causes strife.Ugly is too..
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Mister Sparkles
Standing thereRegarding those in his care,Some more asleepThan others in his keep,But all that can be rousedTo once again be surprisedBy his..
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Mirror Of Fools (Speculum Stultorum)
Nigellus Wierker wrote a satire of the workings of the Catholic ChurchNot much has changed from when he penned the worksDescribing the foibles of the..
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Miroslava's Sophia
Sophia the psychicWas perhaps slow, now quickTo surmise that along this road, so clear,Were those who did not want to hearThat what had happened many..
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