One Day at A Time
...Who could ask for anyone better?
If I were cold, you would bring a sweater without me asking
When I couldn't see, you were my bifocals so I could see your perfect form passing
How can I do it with...
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Categories:
bifocals, absence, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Rosy Granny Magic Glasses
...I walked along route 58
There was Mumbai dreams and Harbor Freight
A hippie guy sold sunglasses from a stall
One had a rosy tint, I paid 5 dollars, that was all.
There was a warning label with it...
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Categories:
bifocals, allegory, crazy, emotions, extended
Form: Lyric
Baby Beau
...Our baby is ten months old
Today I heard a loud clinking sound in his mouth
Chased him around the room
Wrestled it out of there
It was a pair of eyeglasses
One lens was gone
I hope they are m...
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Categories:
bifocals, dog,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 167--- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLYANNA: Holly Damian and the Hakim clan
...September 2051
Molly Dolly and Holly were busy celebrating the end of spring inthe garden. Sidney joined Adonis Kyon CJ and Damian in the weight room. As they busied themselves
With variou...
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Categories:
bifocals, celebration, color, family, father
Form: Free verse
Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall
...Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall
After descent of eventide
luminescence of freshly fallen snow
still illuminates the terrestrial firma bright
even upon the onset of dusk,
...
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Categories:
bifocals, appreciation, break up, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Booby Trapped Within Apartment Unit B44
...Booby trapped within apartment unit b44
Circa August 18th, 2021
three bajillion years ago to date,
nevertheless I count blessings,
so please do not hashtag me
as worse than an ingrate
or o...
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Categories:
bifocals, adventure, anxiety, confusion, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
Travels With Grandad
...head cradled on folded arms
as a young boy I’d sit rapt
in the tales told by an old man
as he drew pictures at our dinner table
no bragging, not at all
just remembrances
of arid deserts...
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Categories:
bifocals, courage, death, family, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
...Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came acro...
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Categories:
bifocals, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
...In Times New Roman, I font
to hitch wagon to a star.
Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, ...
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Categories:
bifocals, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
God's Spell Check
...If God spell checked our existence.. we'd be giving a lifelong penance.. how deceitful we've become without resistance.. weapons of mass destruction still remain defenseless.. alterior motivated frie...
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Categories:
bifocals, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
...at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup....
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Categories:
bifocals, 5th grade, adventure, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Booby Trapped Within Apartment Unit B44
...Lemme titillate thee
regarding myself daily soldiering thru breastworks
read out loud to experience where dangerfield lurks
twenty five years a husband unknown marital perks
bachelorhood to die f...
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Categories:
bifocals, abuse, adventure, confusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Jaundiced Eyes
...Jaundiced Eyes
Jaundiced eyes covet past tense masquerades
In crypts where yellowed brittleness recall bitterness
Where glassy-eyed failures suck truth dry -
Vampires with addictions
Distorti...
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Categories:
bifocals, angst, self,
Form: Free verse
Oh, Canada
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A lovely, senior named Ruth,
Was told to don ugly goggles,
forsooth!
By Canadian powers that be,
Which frightened the good
country's citizenry.
She wore bifocals hobbling to the sto...
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Categories:
bifocals, giggle,
Form: I do not know?
Winter Solstice
...Greater times were spent before the winter solstice.
Before there were the wreckage seasons of my life;
There was happiness all around me.
There were strong and splendid seasons with staunch...
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Categories:
bifocals, depression,
Form: Free verse
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