Ima Ryma Poems

'Twas the Summer of Love and Haight,
San Francisco, '67.
The hippies came to celebrate
The feel of communal heaven.
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A gnaphosid, ground spider, I
Don't spin a web the normal way.
Don't want to sit around is why.
I actively hunt for my prey.
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Scientists checked the D.N.A.
Of cat remains from long ago.
The tame cat that we know today
Was once a wild cat, doncha know!
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Willie Gillis of World War II,
The Norman Rockwell ev'ry guy,
As portrayed American who
Served the nation as a G.I.
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I was thirteen when World War II
Began and caused my life to change.
A camp my family went to,
And life was suddenly so strange.
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For a long time I'd been with her.
She took very good care of me.
I found her cold and still - not sure
Of why no movement seemed to be.
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In Massachusetts,1812,
Governor Gerry carved the state.
For more votes he did dig and delve,
So his party carried more weight
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The polka dot wasp moth is hued
To celebrate Fourth of July.
Its body is red, white and blued
In freedom flight across the sky.
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General George Washington needed
A spy behind enemy lines.
So Captain Nathan Hale heeded
The call for sneak snooping designs.
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His son was only two years old,
But had a vocabulary
Of an adult, and one day told
His Dad that his son used to be
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