As the Cockleburr Turns...

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Open Poetry #15

As the Cockleburr Turns...

Mike
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since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

0 posted 2001-07-28 09:54 PM

My daddy was a cockleburr,
...my ma, a rose's thorn,
they had a sticky romance,
...'til finally, I was born.

Raised in a Kansas junkyard,
...a really weedy joint,
In case you are a wondering,
...this poem has no point.

One day a dog came sniffing,
...though our weeds and grass,
that day my daddy left me,
...stuck in a Collie's tail.

It was me and momma,
...from that sad day on,
I really missed my daddy,
...since he left, dog-gone.

One day I met my true love,
...a pretty dandelion,
to make her mine forever,
...I surely would be tryin.

I sidled over near her,
...too close, I fear did prick her,
said my darling dandelion,
...get lost, you little sticker.

I blew home to momma,
...all sad, a wee bit cryin,
momma held me close and said,
...forget that dandelion.

So me and ma, through thick or thin,
...in sun or rainy weather,
never did we move apart,
...we always stuck together.

[This message has been edited by Mike (edited 07-28-2001).]

ShannonM
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since 2001-07-28

Posts 104
Drifitng

1 posted 2001-07-28 09:56 PM

I enjoyed this!

Shannon

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

2 posted 2001-07-28 10:41 PM

Funny poem and certainly shows a lot of imagination!

Betty Lou Hebert

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2001-07-29 07:07 AM

Mike, your imps are playing with your Muse...and look at the fun we have from that! Well done, Sir!

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

4 posted 2001-07-29 09:30 AM

And these are the Days of Our Dogs... Too cute, Mike... I'm gigglin'...

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