Best Roadrunner Poems

The Ole Roadrunner
(For Sara from Uncle Johnny)
June 2015

Want to tell you a story
Bout a bird that can run.
He can fly up in trees, but
To race is more fun.

He’s a runner at heart
He lurks like a trickster
Darts out on the road
Goes faster and faster.

He’s sleek and...

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coming home too soon
missing the everlasting
it never lasts long...

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Coyote, Wile E. 
Is my cartoon character nominee
For being the most frustrated loser
Using Acme products made him a self-abuser

Roadrunner
Made this Looney Tune much funner
When he caused Wile E to fall off a cliff 
hit by a boulder, he was flattened and stiff. 


September 17, 2021
Cleritoons...

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7/25/17


In the ocean or among lumber
Survivalist and hunter
Rain and thunder
Above below and inside the bunker
An increase in hunger
During Winter and Summer
A roadrunner
Giving them a stone cold stunner
Like a hot knife through butter

Running smoothly or with a buffer

Bags full of downers and uppers

Getting older, not any...

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Rascally roadrunner in the sun	
finding grasshoppers on the run
feed your babies high protein
build a nest off the ground
in my two live oaks
run up and down
smiling clown
goofy
bird

When
the heat
gets too much
and drinks are few
and baths fewer still
find the nearest sprinkler
a thoughtful human neighbor
has turned on specially for...

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Pecos Bill rode herd in the vast forlorn.
His quiet Paint gobbled buttered popcorn.
A tornado, in a fit, 
Came for a whirlwind visit. 
“Paint, meet Curley. His back I will adorn.”

Bill grabbed his rope and threw a loop with hope
And saddled the whirlwind so Paint could...

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