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Assignment: Adult

Heather — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:07:42 +0000

Impress Me.

donteatacowman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:13 +0000

“Fear me!” cries the man
Of no stature and no deed.
His words shall be mocked.

Hallowe’en

donteatacowman — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:14:21 +0000

It is Hallowe’en tonight
I hold a book, Stories of Fright
Scattered are some fallen leaves
And I smell pumpkins on the breeze.

The twilight bears a bitter chill
My book, too, carries frigid thrill
To think of the spirits about
(For at this season, they are let out:

The date when death and life will meet
As truth mixes with deceit.
The children all in costume dress
To put our horrors into jest).

There’s one lone tree atop my hill:
Branches will soon be barer still,
A skeleton of springtime dead,
Its blanket snow, the world its bed.

The stories end, my reading done.
While watching Trick-or-Treaters run,
I take in the taste of autumn’s breeze
And sit near my tree amidst the leaves.

Moral: Abide By My Chosen Lifestyle or Be Terminated

donteatacowman — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:51:12 +0000

There was a carnivorous dude
Who thought animals were only food
So, searching for chow,
He once ate a dead cow
But then choked to death as he chewed.

Fruit or color?

donteatacowman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:06:59 +0000

Nothing rhymes with “orange”
So instead of a sonnet
I make it haiku

Garage Sale

donteatacowman — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:03:04 +0000

Walk up the driveway and see
What in the garage does reside–
The boxes overflowing with Stuff
Unneeded, unused, or unlovcd.
Each container or bag a red price tag holds
But one box keeps and stocks wares much better than gold–
Junkier than the rest
With the price of the best
Only one word adorns the cardboard side:
“FREE”

Writer’s Block

donteatacowman — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:05:05 +0000

Writer’s Block
A lack of Inspiration, a fickle Muse, or just Laziness
Disinterest in the computer screen or notebook pad as the TV flickers and voices shout and thoughts run rampant and
Maybe this was a bad idea, to write
And it can always be done another day.
Choose to let the writing lie dormant for tomorrow and finally
Decide to just not finish wri

Angsty Limerick

donteatacowman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:22:16 +0000

He promised he never would leave her
And that he would never deceive her
And though vows of love strong
Held all her life long,
He never thought he’d have to grieve her.

Pop Culture Osmosis

donteatacowman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:55:54 +0000

“Shakespeare was a wonderful poet,”
Thought a man who had no way to know it,
So he sat through Macbeth,
Which bored him to death,
And now he tells Shakespeare to stow it.

Save the Humans

donteatacowman — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:28:36 +0000

There once was a girl who liked to flirt
So she went to the mall in her best shirt
To find that her mall
Was not there at all
For global warming rendered it a desert.