I Seek Fun Satisfaction and Joy
...my own tiny Kansas environment owes me an apology
I have wanted a dog run built and it keeps getting promised
yet the powers that be have thrown rain into the equation
for two or three weeks, it i...
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Categories:
aide, me,
Form: Narrative
song of the mattress
...song of the mattress
she slept, wrinkled and small
on satin sheets, a band-aide covering her mattress,
knees tucked tightly beneath her chin
and legs pressed against her breasts
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Categories:
aide, allegory, emotions, hurt, pain,
Form: Free verse
Grandma's Stories
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Alright everyone, quiet please!
May I tell a tale, I have the perfect story!
Well then sit....cause I'm going to....
Pull up a chair, or on the floor, that will do.
I'm elderly now as thin...
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Categories:
aide, age, cute, family, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Today, even the hills seem blue and other painful verses
...Today, even the hills seem blue.
Unhappiness is just happiness ~
being torn to shreds by you.
Bartleby: "I would prefer not to."
Lawyer: "But Bartleby, you...
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Categories:
aide, blue, heartbreak, how i
Form: Rhyme
Conjuring the Lives of Paul McCartney and The Beatles
...I’m bringing out the songs
lingering inside
as patrons in the bar
gaze at me—
I’ve been waiting for this night
for the last two days.
I am looking for the stars
while singing from my heart.
I...
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Categories:
aide, love, memory, music,
Form: Free verse
Dark Waters
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Emotional Burdens Set Sail on Dark Waters Lagoon
Adrift, Under the Soft Light of the Waxing Crescent Moon
Subtle the Reflection, the Tapered Lunar
Gently Glistened Dark and Murky Ethereal Wate...
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Categories:
aide, emotions, water,
Form: Free verse
Pitbull Boxing
...Pitbull Boxing the rules have changed/
It's a little different in this pitbull Boxing ring/
We fight till the death, nothing more or less/
There's no time to think, no time to catch your breath/
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Categories:
aide, boxing day , career, character,
Form: Free verse
Broken Chains
...Crimson tide, Amber tears. Bones of gold, blood of iron
Hold me close to the fire
I seek my fathers aide
Warning, faithful to truth
Silver spirit, Orange soul
Broaden the scope
Trace down the s...
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Categories:
aide, blessing, faith, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse
Crown of Sonnets in Iambic Pentameter: In Story-Tale-in-Form
...Crown of Sonnets in Iambic Pentameter: The Tale of Prince Zag
Note: The tale is six (6) sonnets long, each sonnet has 14 lines, each line contains variable words bearing 10 syllables, neverthele...
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Categories:
aide, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
My Invention
...I’ve just invented something that I think you will applaud
I cannot tell you what it does or even what it’s called
I made it out of bits and pieces found up in my loft
I stuck a switch on one end ...
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Categories:
aide, creation, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Come-Again Ben
...The werewolf hunter came to town to help the people fight
The moon was getting larger and would soon be full and bright
Those vicious hairy beasts would savage townsfolk all night long
But now the...
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Categories:
aide, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Kitty Kat's Facade
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Our Kitty Kat has the sharpest claws
Right to the very end of her paws
When angry or upset ,she's a fright
So I try to be ultra polite -
Giving her books ...my fingers shake
Those almond ...
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Categories:
aide, cat, humor, nursery rhyme,
Form: Couplet
Y I became a poet NOT FOR CONTEST
...I believe that at first
I had a thirst for word
As a child I’d create my own style
And make up words to popular songs
Especially when I wanted to sing along
But did not have the vocabulary at ...
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Categories:
aide, america, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
BRING THE CHILD BACK
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All my life I’ve been blessed to be in the unique position of watching children play.
From when I was a recreation aide in high school, to being a parent
then a teacher and now, in the bookstore,...
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Categories:
aide, child,
Form: Rhyme
Nova wears Heaven's crown
...morning meets a nurse of caring
for many years,
an aide who's burying
some unknown fears,
a neighbor's kitten
Nova left strewn
said--bury in--garden
where Pansy's grew-in.
life's...
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Categories:
aide, abuse, best friend, cat,
Form: Haibun
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