Time Creeps Up
...Time creeps up on us ever so slowly
Snatching up our youth and vigor,
Sometimes making us feel so lowly
Hence our Bentwood and our liquor.
Time went faster looking back on
Recalling ...
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Categories:
bentwood, time,
Form: Light Verse
Antiques Not For Sale
...The House is full of stuff my husband saves;
A pair of bentwood rockers, goose-neck armed.
His grandparents sat in these, discordant creaks
Punctuating arguments. No one sits there now.
There ...
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Categories:
bentwood, grandparents, memory, nostalgia, old,
Form: Blank verse
In My Living Room
...There, There! Good Children!
I say to the furniture gracing my space,
semi-circling the weary gray eye
of the television, as if it were the center
of the world. It's tired, but YOU are
to rest up...
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Categories:
bentwood, inspirational,
Form: Ballade
Bentwood Rocker
...I have a Bentwood Rocker
It's the most cherished thing I own
It is made from the willow branches
of an ancient tree at my grandparent's home.
It embraces me on my back porch
both in the mornin...
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Categories:
bentwood, introspection, nostalgiaold, grandparents, grandparents,
Form: Rhyme
Barbie Pink
...Barbie pink with buxom breast
Spread across a bony chest
Thus recline on bentwood chair
As she unfurls her blended hair
A passer by
A darker night
A fleeting thought
A fairer sight
Ma...
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Categories:
bentwood, lovenight, night,
Form: Rhyme