Ascot Poems

Queen of united kingdom

...The queen Elizabeth was born in April nineteen twenty six
she grew up with her corgis and taught them lots of tricks.
She was first born child at Balmoral Castle,
born to the Duchess of York witho...

Gloria Gee Chose the Right Pet

...Gloria Gee was driving her dragon Mars home in style.
They were be there in little over a quarter mile.
She had painted her pick-up truck with hearts and stars.
How do you like it? She asked her n...

Versailles

...In a phalanx of four: Peter, Lisa, Dave, and I, descended a waterfall of marble stairs - pilgrims to another time - as if we’d punched through a wormhole.

It’s a five-star bash at the palace of Ve...

I'm All That and an Appreciative Hat

...I'm just an old-fashioned, flannel lumberjack shirt.
My father was some overalls, a farmer of dirt.
I'm a worn out and holey pair of cotton socks,
An unwanted sweater, packed away in a box.

My ...

Everything Just So

...
   Green grass, cut once or twice weekly
      A CEO might shave twice a day

   Edges and hedges trimmed nicely too
      Manicure, pedicure in seven days due 

   Rolling lawns with everyth...

On Meeting a 'swamp Creature'

...Have you ever met a creature of the swamp
  the kind that makes his home in the DC bureaucracy

I hear there are hundreds of thousands of them
  I shop at Macy's, so why haven't I met one 

Per...

The Life of Any Party

...Princess Martina Matilda Marianna Mouse,
held the most wondrous parties in any house;
with the finest imported Cheshire and Brie,
served up with green olives and black tea.

In her finest sat...

Blue Shotgun Lantana

...
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire

"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns." 
Charles Baudelaire

"Smell is...

Mean Girl

...I've posted a piece, called "mean girl," that's longer than the poetry section allows.

In the "Short Story" section. 

I know I could take things out - to make the piece shorter and force it to ...

Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 1

...The curtain rises. Steve Merkin, the unscrupulous accountant, and John Travailleur, Esq. just another John, are seated at a bar in a seedy looking inn. Mitchell Hollywood, the adulterous innkeeper, i...

Fancies

...Fancies

Hats worn sidesaddle sporting feathers, cornflowers
Whimsy rides in sequins, ribbons and plumes
Small or broad brimmed, laces form floating towers
Swooping pillboxes off to the races cl...

The Red Shoes

...Part 2  - " Lily" / Kate Bush https://youtu.be/MWaqPOnR5wU






"The Red Shoes"




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Pieces of Paper
A Line, A Cross, ...

West Gate Bridge Disaster

...Of my old school mates
cheeky John Doody
from Ascot Vale West
I remember best
one of the great heroes
from the West Gate Bridge disaster....

Nat the Nut's Prophetic Vision

...No one seemed to take much note at first.
Old-timers on park benches passed a comment or two,
Somebody wrote a letter to the local rag,
but no one (who mattered, that is)
really seemed to mind.
...

A Basket Full of Flowers Or of Trouble

...The maiden was carrying a basket
it was full of sweet flowers for market
once she got there she places a blanket
then lays the bunches around a casket

A toff came along and got one for Ascot
h...

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