Medusa
...The Medusa
I painted a picture of a tranquil bay, a red boathouse
rowing boat, golden pebbles in shallow water
naturally, the sky was blue, the mountain afar hazy.
A noise upstairs, the woman...
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Categories:
boathouse, absence, animal, beach,
Form: Prose Poetry
Distant Country
...Distant country
The flat was on the third floor, flights of wooden stairs
deep groves from generations of people going up and down
in the living room, I sat down, had been away too long.
The...
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Categories:
boathouse, angst, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
Dream Girl
...My baby has bi-lateral bonbons.
She modulates her rhythm side to side.
She’s a twenty-mule team moving violation,
Her motives pure as borax, her methods bona fide.
She stood naked in a shell a...
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Categories:
boathouse, allegory, beauty, christmas,
Form: Burlesque
Categories:
boathouse, flower, house, humor, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Albert Blighs Magic Boathouse
... This is the story of Albert Bligh,
who painted a boathouse upon the sky.
Albert was as bored, as bored could be;
he’d grown up in a house high in a tree.
Albert had a bigger dream, ...
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Categories:
boathouse, fantasy, fun, humor, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Peco Boo Recalcitrant Kilowatt Hour Consumer
...How ideal to luxuriate
supposed divine right frill
maximizing climate control
with matter of fact bravado
creature comfort pang to fulfill
consequent flagrant portent
to exercise freewill
be...
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Categories:
boathouse, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Hello Dr Seuss Do Come In
...HELLO DR. SEUSS – DO COME IN
There’s a BEAR
On my STAIR,
And I wish it
Wouldn’t STARE!
There’s a WUPBOARD,
In my CUPBOARD
And a DOX
In my BOX,
I know there’s a DARSKET,
In my BASKET
An...
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Categories:
boathouse, children,
Form: Rhyme
Assumption, Presumption , Gumption
...ASSUMPTION, PRESUMPTION , GUMPTION
I don’t enjoy been on a plane,
I find it scary and a tad mundane,
But last time I flew,
I sat next to a lady I slightly knew,
I was bored and wanted to play ...
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Categories:
boathouse, forgiveness, friendship,
Form: Limerick
The Birds of Drancy
...Little birds spill onto the gravel
Chirping with disoriented confusion.
A spindly flock warbling
“Mère! Mère!”
Through cracked lips and bony beaks.
Hawks circle indifferently
Unfamiliar with th...
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Categories:
boathouse, history, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Dylan Who
...we'd drink something that'd give good boot
something strong
he'd tell me about Dylan T
the boathouse
the scenery
how he'd party with the worst of them
show 'em how it's done
and ma...
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Categories:
boathouse, boat, drink, longing, morning,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sunday Fishing
...Sunday Fishing
In a tranquil inlet a boathouse pained red, a wooden pier
with steps and a rowboat, tied to the pier. The sea is clear
as spring water off a mountain fount, but at the bottom
a woma...
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Categories:
boathouse, adventure, death, sea, sea,
Form: Blank verse
Silent Thought
...My head splintered with silent thought
As I pondered over the crimson memories of you
Lifeless you lay
Like a boathouse wooden
Still as a frame
No longer in view
Lay...
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Categories:
boathouse, angst, forgiveness, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Smirkedy Smirk.( Sung To a Great Song: Yakety Yak.)
...He's quick to flash his latest jewel.
They must have brought it by mule.
And while he's dazzling your eyes.
He's quickly saying his goodbyes. Smirkedey Smirk. What a jerk!
He's spotted mermai...
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Categories:
boathouse, parody, people, song-lyric
Form: Lyric
A Whore In Central Park
...One night in Central Park
Was a love that I embarked.
Of the moments I've endured,
I've never been so sure
Of what may compare to that boathouse,
'Cause when I looked into her eyes,
I saw a fai...
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Categories:
boathouse, business, confusionme, night, me,
Form: Lyric
Going Home
...The rain appeared, arctic
Spattered the duck board
As angry pellets flinched
And recoiled
Boathouse dank, bleak
Galley proofing transpire
Moist and humid
With sense of Frangelico
An...
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Categories:
boathouse, lost love
Form: I do not know?
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