Absence
...Though the carpet teemed with costumes, toys and figures, laid orderlessly, it was barren.
Distant echoes of the battery powered monkey clapped naively through the still air, and its dim LED eyes s...
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Categories:
bedstead, divorce, family, father son,
Form: Narrative
Belay
...Just belay, will you,
hook-up and just stay.
Grab a mooring,
until the break of day.
Or ride at anchor on line,
rode to sea's bedstead,
instead.
Just belay, and moreover just stay,
steadfast ...
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Categories:
bedstead, friendship, may, romantic, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Everlasting
...I always think of us as young
you still blooming and me too fresh
Like the time when your little body was huge
with our boy
we really rocked the cradle back then
or that time
in some cheap ho...
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Categories:
bedstead, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gift Wrapped In Love
...Hark, listen to the church bells ring
In welcome to our newborn King
Sing in praise for the Holy babe
It was for us our Saviour came.
As never before - kneel and pray
For peace on...
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Categories:
bedstead, celebration, christmas, love,
Form: Rhyme
Letter To Santa From Looby Loo
...Dear Santa,
As you may well know,
it's tights and not stockings that are all the go.
So, with no stockings to hang on the bedstead,
would a pair of my bloomers be OK instead?
I'll ...
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Categories:
bedstead, christmas, desire, fun, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Beer Get Outta Here
...Just going for a BEER
Beer, Beer, what you are doing here
I thought I gave you up
But there are still two cans of you left here in the fridge
Now enough is enough
But I do though like salty ...
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Categories:
bedstead, april, drink, wine,
Form: Free verse
Mind Your Old
...Her old grandmother ailing
Shortly before she lied down
Her quaver fresh head facing the wall
Her crocodile skin broke of blood vessels
She let the dying for burial
She ran away from
The old ...
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Categories:
bedstead, mothers day, society,
Form: Didactic
The Birth and Rebirth In a New Dawn
...Steam driven ashes and lava from volcanoes
Obscure tomorrows
Exploding from bean pods and tomatoes
Beseeching and seeking halos
Our lives require
To earn a rebirth
Inspire and inquire
Whethe...
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Categories:
bedstead, poems,
Form: Free verse
Lamentaion
...I have being bitten with a poisonous sting
Causing me greater pain
Making me feel unconscious
And allowing tears flow down my cheek
I have being bitten by an unseen creature
Causing people to...
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Categories:
bedstead, 2nd grade,
Form: Elegy
The Snore of a Bore
...I dreamt I said, ‘Hullo, Fellow’ on her pink plumage pillow
When from my blue sky grew and flew a sentimental swallow
That told me to fold my arms and grow calm because it didn’t matter anymore
As...
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Categories:
bedstead, poems,
Form: Free verse
I Remember
...I remember
I remember
A swallow gliding across
The moon’s rising shadow
That falls
At the feet of my bedstead.
I look at the glow and the raven black sky
And wonder of what’s to come.
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Categories:
bedstead, blessing, eulogy,
Form: Elegy
The Sugar Maple Tree
...I awake from winters slumber
As my sap begins to flow
My buds will shortly sprout
While my limbs begin to grow
I watch the many animals
That start to come around
To some I am a gym
While oth...
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Categories:
bedstead, nature, tree,
Form: Personification
Memories
...I recollect we would,encircling a fire,congregate
Brew tea and pregnant stories of ancient time narrate
My grandpa would hours during nonstop preach
The inestimable merits of Dawn prayer and teach...
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Categories:
bedstead, family,
Form: Free verse
Post Coitum Omne Animal Triste Est, Sive Gallus Et Mulier
...Post coitum omne animal triste est,
sive gallus et mulier*
Yes, no cockerel who rules the cackling roost
Will stomach slander from Latin master;
But who will stand aside and l...
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Categories:
bedstead, humorous, love, women, animal,
Form: Sonnet
Memory Weapons
...5 a.m. had surfaced
Weary I ascended from my bedstead
Keen I rose the first of many cancer sticks
to the sleek rift of my lips
Oh, how the flavor of fresh, young smoke
Knocked at the base of my esoph...
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Categories:
bedstead, life, cancer,
Form: Verse
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