Calaveras Poems - Poems about Calaveras

...If ye benevolent reader count yourself as a wise married man such as me... (truer words never spoken nor written) take my word and decline and absolutely refuse to take masterly crafted bait vide......

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...Jumpin' Frog My name is Dan'l Webster this is my story and I'm stickin' to it I'm green with a long tongue wet, slimy skin for a coat. I eat all sorts of insects but flies, now there’s a del......

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...Sneezing fit – tests nasal septum The word Gesundheit was first used in English in 1914. It became popular in the United States due to the many German immigrants who moved there. Many Americans ma......

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...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race... Planet earth (the Mother of all) breathed a collective and palpable sigh of relief, and I too deeply exhaled, ......

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...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil......

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...She had won a toy, for her it was a great achievement, it gave her moments to enjoy, and became a piece of attachment. He dropped her emotions from terrace, her feelings shattered with the cub......

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...Hiccups An involuntary spasm of the diaphragm and respiratory organs, with a sudden closure of the glottis and a characteristic sound like that of a cough. Rather mundane topic l......

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...La Cavalera Catrina 1910-1930: An etching by cartoonist and lithographer, José Guadalupe Posada Of a Garbancera, elegant skull, an upper-class woman of the Porfiriata Has become a char......

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...Recurrent sneezing fit courtesy freshly mowed grass circa June 20th, 2022 prompted me to stutter self addressed rapid fire gesundheit nsync with, spluttering “I don't have any allergies!” ......

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...An infinitesimal slight speck tickled nostril follicle – activated via an itty bitty, nitty gritty dirt band noah bigger than a mole luck yule set in motion a chain reaction, whence mine sens......

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...Anomalous poetic contrivance evokes... googling inept kickstarted lame outré jaunty hokum (alternately titled: Random screenshot within me noggin instantaneously transforming, née devolving i......

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...Calaveras' famous frog was astounding In contests never beaten at bounding But a gambler's ruse In the frog did infuse Lead shot that kept him a groundling The con artist disappeared south Fr......

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...PETA snooping in Calaveras County; frog cannot jump......

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...The thought of "dwarf tossing" I abhor But a leaping frog will make me roar In Calaveras County They leap to collect bounty Hillbillies watch as moonshine they pour To leap the farthest ......

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...In a small gold rush town sipping on ale Mark Twain once overheard a bartender Made himself famous by penning this tale A frog jump contest with a large wager Decided outright when one frog didn'......

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