Ima Ryma Poems

A pair of Red Panda are we,
Ms. Porrin and Mr. Tamei.
At the Lion House you may see
Us at Lincoln Park Zoo each day.
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An arapaima, I am
A big fish in the Amazon.
Up and down and across I've swam.
I'm a fine finned phenomenon.
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I wrote it in a better time,
When I still felt my heart and soul.
The sonnet flowed in metered rhyme,
Each sound a tribute to the whole.
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A man and wife and child were lost,
Driving in a blizzard of snow.
Their car stalled from a clogged exhaust.
There wasn't anyplace to go.
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Once when I had a family,
We shared a home and lives between.
But then, I got caught up in me,
And ran away at seventeen.
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The powers that be picked a site
Across the field from a playground.
A plant was built, shiny and bright,
Guaranteed to be safe and sound.
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In 1962 he came
To public view on the T.V.
Gawwwww-leeeee Gomer Pyle was his name.
Shazam, he came from Mayberry.
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A naked mole rat I do be
Taking a rest from digging chore,
As like most of my colony,
I just keep digging more and more.
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She lived inside a tall spruce tree,
When one day her home was cut down,
A Christmas tree destined to be,
And trucked off to Big Apple town,
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Pecos Bill was a little bored.
When a tornado happened by.
What the heck? Pecos jumped aboard.
The funnel whirled into the sky.
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