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Premium Member Basketball Picks
Untimely was Hamilton Hicks In making his basketball picks. He knew it all well, How each bracket fell, But always too late with his clicks. ...

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Categories: picks, basketball, funny, future, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Harry Picks up Sheryl from the Airport
Sheryl had never been a fan of public affection. Harry knew this, but he was hoping. When they parted she had used the term “boy next door”. He saw that as a brush off. She had been attending college for four months. He had offered to pick her up from the airport. He was hoping her feelings had changed. Sheryl’s heart slammed...

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Categories: picks, desire, love,
Form: Free verse



A Dead Letter Picks Up Its Stone Bed and Talks
Departed poems in a gray post-dated heaven clatter wings together like hens in a jailers coop. Words never die, they bury themselves in heaps of dry leaves, distant laughter scatters the sadly said. Muse-makers wear plastic rainhats that flutter like bats in the sunlight. Words have to be tied together or they sink alone in an empty fish bowl. Japanese girls in designer Nike's skip...

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Categories: picks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Mother Picks Winners
There is an angry big-mouthed monster living in my room. I tried to discourage him, chased him off with mop and broom. He grinned his ugly broken teeth at me and gave me grief. This story gets a lot worse, so I doubt I can be brief. His name is Rufus Dufus and he eats up all my snacks. He...

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Categories: picks, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mauve Picks a Winner
Spindly stretching brambles rebel from main form Amused bending stems eject spikes of rhino horn Thorns barely a repellent for birds resourceful Tweezer glowing twilight globe, a bitter morsel Fresh field alien green cone births berry's infant Chantilly lace pale...

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Categories: picks, celebration, nature, purple, winter,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Farmer Comes and Picks My Corn-
County country corn Grown naturally from the farm Picked and stock, shucked and plucked Crop has been givin up There’s a new plow spaced aged somehow I’m sure hungry now farmers come git mi corn plowed 10/23/21 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2021© Idyll (Idyl)...

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Categories: picks, analogy, celebration, engagement, farm,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
O Limb Picks
Yamamoto Miki has a face That stands out in a crowd anyplace She looks like the fairy Who charms Londonderry With visions of ethereal grace...

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Categories: picks, woman,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Whose Mine Embracer-She Picks Me Up
She look down upon me Chosen love filled eyes She reached down beside me Touched my thigh She gently kissed me on my forehead As she lowered her body toward me She gently grasped me with her hands Embrace me in her arms She picked me up ever so touching You think she was my lover When in fact In awe All actuality SHE WASN'T MY LOVER I'm not...

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Categories: picks, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, engagement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A God Who Picks Me Up-
God I have fallen from the sky, Will you carry me God I am hungry Will you fill my soul Lord, Father I'm lonely Will you embrace me soley O' Lord I'll walk strong elongated with my head high Father I'll stand bold I will hold, onto your hand I appreciate you the great ALL I AM My Lord, My God you who picks me...

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Categories: picks, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, god,
Form: Light Verse
Picks of Life
PICKS OF LIFE It is a sacred game of life Sprinkle a hue and you are fine It is a sacred game of life Sprinkle a hue , gone is your shine Who will sprinkle and on whom? Its your own deeds that will choose It is a tricky game of life Enter a tunnel and light is there It is a tricky game...

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Categories: picks, emotions, giving, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dorothy Outfoxes Pucks and Picks
Pucks and Picks two skinflints Quietly and disdainfully blacken sequins With their dour, disastrous ways. Dorothy, one sequin got away. She was the shiny blue one. She happily quit running after realizing How slow they were Pucks and Picks sent the hounds to fetch her But their skin was soaked by the time they arrived And Dorothy was lying in the sun, laughing...

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Categories: picks, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Those Who a Politician Picks
Those Who A Politician Picks To vote for them Politician often picks, What we have heard to be some hicks; Lack knowledge, With no college, Who live some place out in the sticks. Jim Horn...

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Categories: picks, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
The Chinese Diet, Always On Top Picks
The Chinese diet, always on top picks, Two grams of rice, which boiled in bucket water, It should be eaten only by chopsticks. But be a modest, eat this no more, than quarter!...

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Categories: picks, funny,
Form: Quatrain
She Picks Up the Laundry
She loops the carefully folded laundry in the crook of her arm the way you would lift a cat peacefully sleeping on a bed. The need for neatness nestled in her like ...

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Categories: picks, cat, dream, fantasy,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
God Picks Up the Bad Fish
God picks up the bad fish And keeps the good one for me "You may fall sick if you eat this bad one So I pick the bad So that you can pick the good"...

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Categories: picks, god,
Form: Prose Poetry

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