Ima Ryma Poems

An octopus like me has got
Eight arms (not tentacles) , and I
Never do get them in a knot,
And never really wondered why.
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The boy was at a baseball game.
A girl behind did catch his eye.
A foul ball struck did take its aim.
The boy did catch it on the fly.
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It's called seal training that I do.
Ev'ry day of the year it's done,
Right here at the Lincoln Park Zoo,
Serious stuff and not just fun.
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We the People have been at war,
And thousands have paid highest price,
This 21st century for
The whole time spent in sacrifice.
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The spacecraft landed on a world
No longer showing any life.
Some global disaster unfurled.
Total extinction signs were rife.
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The Argo was the finest ship
To ever have sailed from Greece
On a faraway foreign trip
In a quest of the golden fleece.
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A travelin' butterfly, I do
Wing it to the Nature Boardwalk,
Summertime at Lincoln Park Zoo,
A place where lots of us jet set flock.
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Melvin wirh Alzheimers cannot
Remember time and place too good,
But one fact he has not forgot,
That ev'ry Mother's Day he would
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The U.S. Memorial Day,
Meant to remember those who died,
Fighting for our freedom's way,
In resting places found worldwide.
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Maya Angelou did so weave
Such wondrous word fabric in art,
Wishing each wearer might believe
That language can clothe yearning heart.
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