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The Strasbourg Dancing Sickness

...
Is dance a metaphor for sex?
You’d think so if you knew my ex
(at least the barflies all believe
she’s hoarding something up her sleeve).
But what makes people want to dance?
An aural frenzy? ...

Categories: barflies, dance,
Form: Couplet

I Am Proud

...I am proud to have lived a long and varied life…
proud to have found joy in most every day…
and extremely proud at the diversity of friends I’ve made along the way.

I am proud to have friends I’...

Categories: barflies, pride,
Form: Rhyme

Eyeballing the Bar Flies

...Chet lived creepily in the back of the tavern, hidden. 
No one bothered him. He lived vicariously through the others.
The pretty barflies who flitted in chatting too loudly.
Flipping their hair. H...

Categories: barflies, longing,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Lemonade

...
"Lemonade"
 


Agency sent me to 
the territory of 
Lemonade dreams
where secret rendezvous
were disjointed 
and criminally spent 
shooting th...

Categories: barflies, poets, psychological, word play,
Form: Free verse

Masters of Trickery

...Masters of Trickery

alien ornithopters filled with pilgrims
gliding in under a full moon
foul smelling unwashed bumbling
hubcap jockeys from artless galaxies
firing bursts of compressed methan...

Categories: barflies, how i feel, howl,
Form: Free verse

The Chronicles of a Phonophobic

...**For Ruben O, My little Bro**

(This poem was written and a recording made for the contest sponsored by Team Poetrysoup which was deleted before it was judged.  I wonder if this would have receive...

Categories: barflies, fear, life, people,
Form: Free verse

Unborn Dreams

...Brooding barflies
Choked on unborn dreams
Never look up to observe the 
Charming full moon...

Categories: barflies, angst, life,
Form: Prose

Now That's a Shame

...~~~
Tis a gladness found in sadness
mostly pleasure
wince of pain
From an odor round the barroom
none the boys could e'er explain
Like a billowed line of washin'
after gentle fallen rain
Tis ...

Categories: barflies, addiction, change, emotions, ireland,
Form: Rhyme

Change For a Dollar?

...The only thing that exceeded the dinginess of this rat-hole bar was its stuffiness. I
stopped in the place to make change for a parking meter just outside its door. God! It was
awful in there, and ...

Categories: barflies, people, placesold, old,
Form: Haiku

Neon Lights

...on the pulsing floor
barflies wiggle and shimmy
fear and pride~  shot drowned...

Categories: barflies, adventure, life, peace, places,
Form: Haiku