Hold the Phone
...Hold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean, it’s ...
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Categories:
cagy, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money,
Form: Free verse
Ode To the End of War
...Sharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No flag of truce waved, or fri...
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Categories:
cagy, friendship, war,
Form: Epic
Reach Out
...I've had a phone on me since I was eight
It was my pacifier for with it I'd drift to sleep
Amidst the pain that I was in
Cause it helped escape my reality
I had a phone on me since I was eight...
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Categories:
cagy, absence, beautiful, community, history,
Form: Free verse
Youths Cagy Wish
...I have a secret:
A very unbelievable one.
It is a world of beauty in discreet,
I do perceive is filled with fun.
Why do I fear getting old?
Whence Saturdays are always for youth.
Whose b...
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Categories:
cagy, age, art, desire, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Driving Ms Cat Car
...It is 1954, and the sun is shining brightly with feeling.
I am lying in my room, staring at the bland white ceiling.
Go out and do something! My mother urges me again.
There is nothing to do, with...
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Categories:
cagy, car, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Three of a Kind
...Three of a Kind
For Caroline (Kay) Levy and Elizabeth Bishop
I could take certain scenes from your life,
a week in Paris, a fishing boat beyond the kelp,
cigarettes and ...
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Categories:
cagy, love, memorial,
Form: Lyric
The King, the Queen, and Jack
...The King of Diamonds sat upon the throne
with Queen of Hearts there seated by his side;
he ruled with fists of iron and it was known
by all the lowly peasants far and wide.
The King a gruff and...
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Categories:
cagy, betrayal, fantasy, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Meaning Betwen the Lines
...Careful when you read between the lines, unsaid
Conjecture often just assumed instead
An air of erudition and suspense
Unsure of inner meaning in this stance
For we write cautiously often in...
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Categories:
cagy, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry