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Tribute To Sheila

...Sheila was blowsy, frowsy, frumpish, dowdy.
matching her unkempt messy, sloppy abode.
gone to seed, meanies said in a nasty way.
we kids saw through Sheila’s shabby drabness.
she was entertaining...

Categories: blowsy, woman,
Form: Free verse

Last of the Summer Wine

...late summers here 
days draw long
not long now
til winters song

balmy days
evenings mild
flowers blowsy 
grasses wild 

warm rain falls
hot days fade 
cooling breezes 
harvests made 

...

Categories: blowsy, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

Year Million

...Standing at back of cafeteria during youth basketball awards ceremony
This is my community.
"What you do may not seem important but it is very important that you
      do it."

The men and women...

Categories: blowsy, basketball, community, daughter, mystery,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Two In Sea Time

...For the  child in us all. . .

Sea, sea can't catch me,
All the waves that I can see,
Would like to carry me away
Swallow my blue-eyed day
Swell up and float away wee, me.

That I respect my ...

Categories: blowsy, appreciation, growing up, ocean,
Form: Limerick

Arranging Flowers

...The tulips know.

Put them in a vase.
Observe myopic stems
heavy with thirst.
Observe choreography
that lifts lion heads
again and again in
different calisthenics
until blowsy with life,
no petal lef...

Categories: blowsy, light,
Form: Elegy

Love Tribute To a Native American Ship's Captain In Alaska

...NATIVE AMERICAN MAN in Alaska
Love Tribute to a ship’s captain
                  By Victoria Anderson –Throop

In early May
Black rough seas
Fought stormy skies
The North Sea
Battled the blowsy gusts...

Categories: blowsy, love, native american, nature,
Form: Free verse

Illinois Central Repartee

...As he stood paper cup in hand by the drinking fountain on a train

 somewhere south of Kankakee, miles from Chicago,

 a quiet, pensive, older man was getting harangued by a loudmouthed, 

 blo...

Categories: blowsy, funny, travel,
Form: Narrative

Beach Walk

...On an early morning walk of coffee and salt
under a sullen sky filled with the tridents of wings,
I add my footprints beside a blowsy sea (praised be 
Poseidon,) that accepts the given of a northeast...

Categories: blowsy, childhoodsea, may, sea, sun,
Form: Free verse