Best Straddled Poems
Night Eyes Dreaming - Collaboration With Brenda Chiri...
Collaborative creation of Merged pens
w/the talented Poetress Brenda Chiri
Mesmerized by the allure
of a satin velvet kissable embrace
Rose lips wet whispering
chocolate fond......
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Categories:
straddled, allusion, imagery, romantic love,
Form:
Romanticism
And Still I Drive - Part One...Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; ......
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Categories:
straddled, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Elvira and the Pillow...A true story....
Well I lived in Sioux City for a little while
Another job site, hubby and I have covered some miles
While there, my mother in law came to visit
She drove Elvira, the biggest Buick......
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Categories:
straddled, humorous, life, car,
Form:
Free verse
The Crow Bar...
"The Crow Bar"
she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between
the thick,
ink injec......
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Categories:
straddled, love, muse, satire,
Form:
Narrative
Daddies Girl...the smell of Carmel corn
fills the air – I think of you Dad
your hand in mine, four steps to your one
the carousel music scores happiness
bells of laughter ting-a-ling-ing
Cotton candy, pink ......
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Categories:
straddled, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
The Riders...The pre-dawn stillness was temporarily broken by the sound of crunching gravel as boots meet rock like an orchestra of timpani drums, beating in unison as the wearers make their way to the iron stee......
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Categories:
straddled, adventure,
Form:
Prose
The All Seeing I...A light under a bucket, yes..I've hidden there
been the squeaky wheel that got the oil
acted uncaring, had my ups and had my downs
lifted folks on my shoulders
acted the sage, acted the clown
hope to......
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Categories:
straddled, introspection, light, light,
Form:
Verse
Reflections - the Fragrance of Grace...Reflection - The Fragrance of Grace
Mail order catalogs seem to have the ability to procreate in my mailbox. Just when I think I have rendered them infertile they give birth to multiple sets of q......
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Categories:
straddled, family, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Haibun
Coyote Full of Secrets Deep and Dark Pt3...Although the kiss was brief
The sensation seem to linger,
His eyes still closed when he felt a pain
As she ran the razor sharp nail of her finger
His eyes popped open as he looked at his che......
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Categories:
straddled, imagination, mysterypain, body,
Form:
Rhyme
Rejected Again...Rejected. Again.
Tonight I think I felt utterly defeated.
My hands around my towel to the shower I retreated.
I cleaned the house. Put the kids to bed early.
So I could try my best to be flir......
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Categories:
straddled, anxiety, boy, conflict, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Marching Band..."Marching Band"
Dapper dilettantes take over one hundred yards
Showing their feathers like a cockatoo on pointy shakos
Displaying their talents on grass they are anything but green
Ready to give ......
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Categories:
straddled, social, time, love, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Bow Maid's Travail/ the Archery Lesson...The archers’ line was straddled,
By many a shapely calf.
The Marshall called the nocking,
And winked at the pretty lass.
The Maiden drew the bowstring back,
To her ruddy cheek,
As she fired h......
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Categories:
straddled, son, song-lyric
Form:
Rhyme
Short Story...The first time I saw my father I was a year and 8 months old. He had returned home for a short respite before shipping out to England to prepare for the invasion. It was the early spring of 1944. W......
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Categories:
straddled, father, world war ii,
Form:
Narrative
Solar Eclipse...There's something I feel that I still haven't said,
Quotes that haven't straddled my lips.
When poetry wheels don't turn in my head,
Words can cast a solar eclipse.
©2012 Honestly JT......
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Categories:
straddled, education, feelings, children, for
Form:
Quatrain
Slam Had a Slimsim...SLAM HAD A SLIMSIM
Slam had a slimsim padded with glimtim
Went to Siberistan with plonkplinkplim
......
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Categories:
straddled, nonsense,
Form:
Limerick