Montreal Closes Down In Rain
...1947 Ford and Chevys passing striding horses
identical street cars at the corner
shops with piling in people
purses swinging in the rain
street clocks announcing four thirty
minions off work w...
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Categories:
bicyclist, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Escape From the Pandemic
...It's dead December, we're getting nowhere, ready
for vaccine like a starving tribe shoved from behind
under the bridge, kicking some dust along the way.
A hand holds my arm, hoarse voices coaxes
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Categories:
bicyclist, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
I Cannot Read the Paper
...Last night a six-year-old child was savagely murdered by her parents.
Last night an inebriated vet was beaten to death in an alley by teenagers.
Last night the moon cried in empathy as she watched...
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Categories:
bicyclist, grief,
Form: Free verse
Bring Back the Horse and Buggy
...Automobile prohibitive maintenance costs
pitches me pitifully begging for alms
lamenting dog forsaken
melon collie unpleasant circumstances
pleading with outstretched palms
disgraced to beg, per...
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Categories:
bicyclist, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Good Day Hatching
...The early morning silence
of a well earned day off.
the long slow stripes of
sunlight and shadow cross
the patio floor, tiger like,
at sunrise giving promise
of a glorious day.
The anticipa...
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Categories:
bicyclist, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Deceit of Envy
...A barren wife envious,
of a passing child's carriage.
A single mom envious,
longing for the wife's marriage.
A larger girl envious,
of a thinning lady's frame.
A thin lady envious,
wis...
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Categories:
bicyclist, introspection, jealousy, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Wings of Desire
...Last night's Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire, not starring Adam
Sandler,
great in the great tradition of Metropolis, Fellini, Children of Paradise,
Ikiru, Open City.
This is not come...
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Categories:
bicyclist, angel, art, desire, funny,
Form: Verse
On My Golden Back Roads
...On my golden back roads
Both sides of my road are clothed in gold,
Swaying trees carrying their autumn splendor,
And golden petals are floating gracefully to the ground.
Fragrant leaves cover t...
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Categories:
bicyclist, autumn, joy, nature,
Form: Free verse