Dreams Do This, Catcher
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"Dreams do this, Catcher"
mystery in the heart
misleads the kiss
the kiss bleeds
like a somersault
backwards
into the comfort
of the dream
we find hidden notes
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Categories:
backstop, dream, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
In the Land of Opportunity
...In the Land of Opportunity
Entitlement reared her pretty head
Without a backstop to plain bad luck
Social Security's safety net was spread
Next came the 'War on Poverty'
Food S...
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Categories:
backstop, career, education, money, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Patience - the Gold Standard
...With children
~ Patience ~
Love’s backstop...
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Categories:
backstop, children, love, parents,
Form: Senryu
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxvi
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXVI
IF you pull that long-besieged face
Back and forth to Brussels in Brexit bob-sleigh
Deal or No-Deal backstop Customs excise nor phase
EU patience and mak...
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Categories:
backstop, break up, destiny, divorce,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xix
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XIX
IF you pull a long plucky face
Even when I-Ee-You let you have your way
Placed no impediment for the divorce
Let you keep key to backstop exit doorway
Y...
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Categories:
backstop, color, conflict, confusion, england,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Subterranean Homesick Blues Again
...Dan's on the mezzanine
asking where the mayor lives
I'm on the dole line,
wondrin bout conservatives
The man with the leg cramps
boot camps wheel clamps
says they cut his food stamps.
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Categories:
backstop, satire,
Form: Lyric
Spring of Life
...Out to the bleacher
We were drawn
By sun burning down,
Melting stubborn
White snow mounds,
While the girls
Still with wintry-pale legs
Trotted the bases
Or lowered to grateful grass
In the b...
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Categories:
backstop, desire, growing up, spring,
Form: Free verse
Wild Ways
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Thru all the things that could be, and all the things that have been,
You, my son, have led your life… as if living it were a sin.
You’ve danced in all the confusion, the fallou...
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Categories:
backstop, caregiving, confusion, fear, growing
Form: Couplet