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Poems People
Like to Silently
Move Their Lips
While Reading

by
Thomas James Allen

  1. Fawn Born
  2. A Stray Grayed Shaded Day
  3. Under The Indigo Rainbow
  4. In My Poetry
  5. Zoey's Eyes
  6. Yes, Love Evolves
  7. Water Cycle One
  8. A Moo
  9. Denise, The Nice
  10. Seesaw Sea
  11. Alice, A Lass
  12. Mnemony
  13. Angry Wound
  14. Worse
  15. Poetamedication
  16. Cowtales
  17. Oelder
  18. Ohm
  19. Utter Complexities
  20. Ourstory

My other poetry books:
Dog Grrl!
Still Minor

Oelder

(a pat-a-cake rhyme)

O, Elder is the older word,
And older 's elder 's youngster;
Older 's younger, so I've heard,
And elder 's youngster's older.
Older 's elder elder 's older
than elder 's youngster older;
And elder 's youngster older 's younger
than the youngster older 's elder elder.















Notes:
Idea 02-21-1992, written 04-05-1992

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