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Best Kline Poems


No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part I
...Round about nineteen 1971-2, yours truly bid adieu 
to Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School 
   (situated at crossroads – then beau
colic rural routes of Evansburg Road and Ridge Pike), where nary ......

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Categories: kline, growing up, hilarious, life,
Form: Free verse
Looking At Art
...We used to go to museums – 
	frequently – 
There were favorite artists:
	Picasso
		Matisse
			Giacometti (especially Giacometti)
	Henry Moore (never passed up a Henry Moore)
		deKooning
			Ca......

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Categories: kline, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Total Time I Spent In Dental Chair Post Adolescence To Present Age First Appointment
...so much precious existence 
found me rooted with mouth ajar 
as sigh asper the dentin-cementum 
so mud dear reader (with dem perfect 
enameled pearly whites), aye har bar 
envy for those with a ......

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Categories: kline, body, depression, feelings, grief,
Form: Imagism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Sayonara Mother Thirteen Years Ago Back In Time Tear Drop Uno
...the bittersweet silent story of my life age
fifty and nine automatically rebroadcast 
     in indelible (yet never washed out) beige
indistinguishably linkedin, when counting 
     the last three......

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Categories: kline, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Metrical Tale
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
...Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021 

No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his ......

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Categories: kline, 2nd grade, absence, age,
Form: Rhyme
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa
...“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”

Spurred by mother dearest 
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tr......

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Categories: kline, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme



Reading Out Loud
...Reading Out Loud...

Plus applying index finger as pointer guide
(take that Missus Wells),
who best not take objection, hence let snide
blackboard barbed comment dultifully slide
chalked up and......

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Categories: kline, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part 1 and a Half
...Upon entering Methacton Junior High School as rookie Warrior, 
   (the sturm un drang sports team mascot) 
   no doubt this goy he brew
a facade sans being wimpy kid, bookish nerd, and puny dork 
......

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Categories: kline, endurance, health, identity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
...Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult

Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil nec......

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Categories: kline, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Scarlet Hussy, Part Iii
......McClors rode up, and smiled quite thin,
He said,”Woman, get away from him!
You come with me now, and it will suffice.
You play more of these games, and you’ll get the knife.”

“See I’m in no ......

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Categories: kline, abuse, adventure, evil, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member It Makes Her Day-Nursery Rhyme
...One fine morning little Kline sees waking up,
a bird outside perched on a wide flower cup.
It is a crimson vested cute and cheery Robin,
she asks keen, ‘so long where have you been?’ 

‘From win......

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Categories: kline, bird, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Prognosticating Present Plight
...Prognosticating Present Plight...
Perhaps Preset During In Utero Protean Stage?

Reviewing, sans my life
and arduous hard time
lock, stock, and barrel on regular basis,
and of late composing
t......

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Categories: kline, 7th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Bio
The Peterson Directed Handwriting System
...The Peterson Directed Handwriting System...

Tis beyond the depth and scope
of this electronic post,
and author, what triggers deliverance
housing bounty full memory absorbance,
yet no matter h......

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Categories: kline, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
Rest My Body In the Know of Mine
...I want a plain substandard coffin,  
Wide enough to contain my wishes,  
The dreams that danced like fireflies,  
Flickering in the night of my soul,  
A much more humbled prospect;  
A faultles......

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Categories: kline, death, dream,
Form:
Premium Member How To Live Alone
...how to live alone

late night , the big chill
plays quietly, scenes flicker
kevin kline
glenn close
meg tilly 
suicide 
reunion
old school chums
jeremiah was a bullfrog.

there in the mid......

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Categories: kline, absence,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things