Best Gabbing Poems

Back in Iowa, where my mother and several of my siblings still live,
my big family gets together for a reunion at Mom’s apartment,
using the reception area of the little place where she now resides.
Mom cooks the main dishes, the turkey, gravy and potatoes
while the others...

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Silence is Golden

In a laboratory in a far away place called
Lahore
Was a mad scientist, who experimented
Offshore

He fiddled and fuddles deep inside his lab
Making clones of his glorious self
Thinking they mighty fine lads
He cloned twenty or thirty or a hundred and more
All chattering and gabbing, their...

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Birds roosting on the power line,
Squirrel can’t cross but he’s trying.

That’s his regular run across this road,
Back to his home with his acorn load.

Squirrel’s always in a hurry it’s seeming,
No time for their gabbing and preening.

He does this high wire act most every day,
And chatters...

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Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant 
dwells amongst an elder net 
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque 
of old folks, only a portion of population I met
which achey, flaky, kooky motley crue 
disgruntlement fed as peevish pet
aye be earnest asper assessment, 
but some getting ready and...

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Was he in the wrong place at the right time?
Slipping, sliding, dying
to live;
just a kid.
Mom and Grandma busy,
gabbing, too far
away.

Was he in the right place,
a parental replacement
for such a time as this?

A little boy with prayers said
over him
while he traveled life’s rough roads;
even his carriage...

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Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One: Assassination of fifty five year old 
Julius Caesar, 44 Before...

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The truth in SPADE
Inviting to get LAID
Gabbing on-line
Many options to be WEIGHED
Is she(or a He) RIPE-
to be just my sort of TYPE?
Old enough for a MAN-
to get it on in my Chevy VAN?
Never really FOOLED
Since the pocket protector always RULED

New at the chat LINE
Looking for...

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Here's some things that really irk me
They must irk some of you guys too
Loaded baskets in those Express Lanes
My face turns a scarlet hue

Imagine the gall of some irksome drivers
Doing fifty in a fifty mile zone
What is it with these bunch of yahoos?
Probably gabbing on...

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highlight of the day
coffee break
gabbing with friends



Submitted on January 9, 2018...

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Sultry morning
Hot air passes through my bedroom curtains
With a reminder summer has returned for certain 
Fans buzzing about
Up and at them
Grab my bike
Perhaps take a hike
Mom making potato salad
At that time our neighborhood was busy with kids 
School was out how thankful I was 
I...

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The duet of a garden's music in June,
afloat with all the season's notes can bring...
The milder one is where chant of orioles 
join honeyed air's refrain 
as dragonflies flip a spin  to answer
the humming pampas on the lawn.
And how the mutter of a pond
swishes...

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ever since *****Sapiens didst
   insinuate, elbow and barge
humanity at the mercy sans, small, medium
   (Strunk and White) elemental forces at large

which indiscriminate merciless whims extant
ask Homer Simpson or Marge
g'head and even tap
   a local, county, or state Sarge

gent...

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Growing up in govan as a wain
We didny have much in they days 
But we'd wid never complain .
We were happy way wat Yeh geed
Nae body gret or yed get a slap on the heid.
Aw the games we aw used to play 
Up n doon...

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darling dimpled dervishes
dancing delightfully 
ghouls goblins gargoyles
gabbing, grabbing, ghosting,
witches wearing weaves,
wistfully watching watchers
dust of night brings Halloween
Outstanding orange ovarian owls 
studiously studying steeples,
betting bulbous bats below 
will wind-fly down, betwixt and between.
jealously juicing, joyously jeering
Dubiously doubting daring dust of the night....

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Ten: A New Global Health Scare, 2003
After accumulating reports 
of a mysterious respiratory disease 
afflicting patients and healthcare workers 
in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, 
Singapore and Canada, 
the World Health Organization 
issues a heightened global health alert. 

The disease became famous 
under the acronym SARS...

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