An Amazing Drink
...Under the sparkling autumn sky
Munich is lively during intoxicating Oktoberfest
Where beer barrels roll empty
As scores of glasses are filled with hefeweizen.
The weiss beer brewed from golden ...
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Categories:
backboards, celebration, drink, joy,
Form: Free verse
Court Disaster
...COURT DISASTER
I survey the court with a cock-eyed view
From the top of the basketball pole.
My hoop hangs it head in abject shame,
And the players look up in dismay
The man w...
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Categories:
backboards, basketball, drink,
Form: Free verse
Hoops and Hops
...Now I’m not a guy likes to dunk,
But this overseas backboard is junk.
For the costs I’ve incurred,
I should beat Larry Byrd,
Or hit a three-pointer, I’d thunk.
See, the front of the rim always...
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Categories:
backboards, basketball, drink,
Form: Free verse
Lane Change
...dead end street …
mostly elderly when we came
always quiet …
empty nests side-by-side
aching for spring
but winter came instead
(the winter of life)
friends … good people -
town folk who rai...
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Categories:
backboards, analogy, appreciation, change, history,
Form: Free verse
Sometimes I Just Write and This Happens
...Whats good my fellow inflamed pen and pad artists
I've unlocked many chains and now Im unharnessed
I've gone through the darkness and still Im untarnished
Watched souls of the heartless acid rain on ...
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Categories:
backboards, black african american, confusion,
Form: Free verse