Fifty ways to leave your lover
...She was definitely dumping him
All she needed was the right opportunity
It was like that song
Fifty ways to leave your lover
Now just to get it through to him
You’re crap in the sack Jack
If on...
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Categories:
braked, humor, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Dandelion Wine
...A symphony of joy raced through the
Hospital hallway
Mom in a wheelchair holding her first daughter Born after 2 boys!
Dad alongside grinning like he struck gold!
Driving home!
Just minut...
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Categories:
braked, pride,
Form: Narrative
The Worst and Best Christmas Ever
...It was December Christmas eve, and it was snowing outside
Kids were making snowmen and some boys had made a slide
Our eight year old daughter Suzie went out to play with her friend Jill
My w...
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Categories:
braked, car, christmas, daughter, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Nellie Bramble
...Ol' Nellie Bramble; she loved to drink
She never washed and boy she did stink
In every bar in town, she'd cause a scene
And her rich language was quite obscene.
She spent many a nig...
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Categories:
braked, drink, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Tench
...There is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun,
barred by spindle trees and the last
of summer's brindled reeds
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilli...
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Categories:
braked, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
A Moment Ago
...“Stop the car!” you said. So I pulled to the side of the road and braked, but before the car came to a complete stop you were off, running to the edge of the field. I picked up my camera and quickly ...
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Categories:
braked, anniversary, blessing, for her,
Form: Prose
Hilo Town, Now and Then
...*Image of Mauna Kea Hilo Bay by Big Island Now.
*Hilo Town, Now and Then
Signs of
Store Closed
or Out of Business
with taped crossed d...
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Categories:
braked, childhood, fate, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Narrative
Linen Love
...I think of you as my bedroom drapes,
Easy shaded armour to the days.
Sometimes breaking, sometimes braked.
Totally held up inside cliche,
We all always behave the same way.
The shadows have hung...
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Categories:
braked, love,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is Life
...Life is a life
Driving home I nearly hit a rabbit
braked hard and the can of lager fell out of my hand.
We country folk drinks a lot; the police never stop you
unless you drive off the road and ...
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Categories:
braked, depression, discrimination, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
Man
...4/8/17
Across the land
There was a man
Whose journey had just began
And due to a decision that was bad
He lost all that he ever had
While feeling his most prized plan
Slip through the palm...
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Categories:
braked, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Stray Dog
...Driving down on Hwy.72 on my usual Sunday excursion,
the rain was pelting down in thin lines of curtains,
was listening to and enjoying my favorite radio station,
doing the 65 mph speed limit not ...
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Categories:
braked, angst, animal, memory,
Form: Light Verse
Flying With Flair
...Two hundred mile an hour they say
a Fireblade screams along its way
but when alas, the rider’s Ray
the Fireblade went a different way.
It sped down Chester bypass quick
for Raymond gave it qui...
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Categories:
braked, flying, life, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Salted Saturation
...Four, six, or seventeen tulip buds grinning. Of course not on a salt marsh. Leave that alone. Misted aromas of ancestral graves should be cared for not dug but if a slug us in power then a lemon woma...
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Categories:
braked, bird,
Form: I do not know?
Nice Family Car On the Highway
...It's early morning and a message just came in...
Reached out for my phone without a pause to think...
Turns out to be a video clip of a white family saloon car..
Somewhere, some place on some un...
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Categories:
braked, community, education, introspection, journey,
Form: Narrative
Garages Bullies
...Garages Bullies
I worked in a Ford garage in Rochdale. There were some real bar stewards there. Two in particular bullied me. They stuck together and picked on me, name calling, pushing me about, me...
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Categories:
braked, anger, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Verse
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