Best Take Five Poems

still green


this theme



Tribute to Dave Brubeck's 1961 no 1 hit...

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As she sighs along to the quiet,
she hears a pleasant whisper.
It is her own enchanted voice.
For she has some time to think.
She hears a pleasant...

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I used to receive regular phone calls so gladly from her
I could feel all her excitements and when she’s so eager
Telling me about her and...

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I thank all Participants in my endeavor to create a POETRYSOUP Dictionary I f YOU do not 
see Your word yet Please be Patient I...

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: baby, cool, hip hop, nostalgia, passion, word play
Back seat Bingo ©

Groovy hot licks on tubs
Daddy-o’s a finger zinger
That straw boss sure gets down
Get down...

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How big is this great universe?
How far do the stars traverse?
Let us think in terms of sunbeams’
Travel-time on the photon streams.

Beams seen from Pluto at...

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The beach air had come to me
With its refreshing yet breezy sensation
The summer is just in the city
Have the fun in the earth’s heaven

Iced water...

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This has been a nightmarish vacation ordeal.
I’m so glad this ship is docking in Mobile.
When fire broke out in the ship’s engine room,
the loss of...

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A true Walden pond,
Slashed roads that break beyond.
We light a Philly XL;
Cut and filled with ganja and ale.

Lack of concern,
No pity and no pain.
Lack of...

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The sunlight illuminates the dust in my room,
reminding me of what I have not done yet,
and what remains to be completed.
That which needs to be...

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JOHNNY RAY
I cry
girls sigh
AROUND THE CLOCK
juke box
room rocks
TAKE FIVE
still green
this theme
BLUE SUEDE
blue blue
my shoe

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take five..take five.. take five


the melody reiterates


Inspired by Dave Brubeck's hit of 1961...

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Got Beer Fix at Check Six

Introduction. Next door neighbor Gene Lakin
invited my to go to a new bar with him. That
is how we ended up...

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take five


hand jive...

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Crash dive, come alive,
sinking low, want to grow,
body numb, she's so dumb,
take five, no hard drive,
find the will, prescription refill,
heart throb, don't sob,
feeling stuck, more...

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Grandma At Eighty Eight

Not too long ago you were a golfer and high score bowler
Hair always fixed looking fifty not much older

Unique deluxe card games...

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JOHNNY RAY
I cry
girls sigh
AROUND THE CLOCK
juke box
room rocks
TAKE FIVE
still green
this theme
BLUE SUEDE
blue blue
my shoe
BLUE MOON
Dean croons
girls swoon...

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It was a sight for sore eyes;
This nightmare of the Gulf made us cry. 
Katrina destroyed Mississippi and Louisiana.
They were ripped to shreds.
From a biblical...

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Hey dreamer, dream on for the world is yours.
A melancholy generation spoils for those who follow.
Rise up, stand tall, the faint hearted will fall,
Time stands...

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                      NEW BIRTH

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PYRAMIDS #7:


Live
Then give
Just to live


Scope
Sculpts hope
Feel faith cope


Strive
Take five
Dare to dive

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
14 January 2016
Singapore
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Our grandkids have a dollhouse,
A gift we did provide,
With furniture and little folk 
To fill the rooms inside.

It's used a lot, quite lovingly,
Yet every time...

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I have waited for the New Age--that Tranelike return to my Mediterranean Sundance Always and Forever missing the  journey of the Caravansary of old.
Hence,...

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We met on the corner of *5th avenue* and I instantly knew that was it,
we were soulmates,set for life,
when our eyes met I could see...

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rhythm 
      sound
       and round,
high then
        low
tapping...

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