MikeGrimes

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I am a children’s poetry writer who dabbles in poorly written silly poems for adults as well.

  September 2023     5 months ago

Submitted Poems 2 total

Juxtapose

My earliest memories are of the 
spackled designs 
strewn across our white stucco ceiling.

They were asterisks 
missing their middles,
or small explosions 
in a comic strip.

 I recall golden sunlight
thick as honey,
dripping down my...

by Mike Grimes

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Johnny’s Place

Johnny Fixerupper was a carpenter by trade,
Building sev’ral bungalows before the second grade.

Father taught him all the tricks, the two made quite a team.
When they built a mansion, Johnny beveled ev'ry beam.

He slept on a sawhorse with a...

by Mike Grimes

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added 8 months ago
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I enjoyed the mystery of this poem. Very well done

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