In Their Eyes
...The darkness behind their eyes
reveals a mind that's
still asleep
I'm not blind to the intentions
that slumber waiting
for their number
to be called to awaken
No I'm not mistaken but see what
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Categories:
cartoonish, allusion, introspection, perspective, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Yogi Bear and Boo-boo Too
...Oh, Jellystone Park, where echoes reside,
In the whispers of trees and the brook's gentle glide.
A haven of mischief, of laughter, of cheer,
Where two famous bears roam year after year.
Yogi, t...
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Categories:
cartoonish, adventure, animal, children, fun,
Form: Free verse
Yours truly me just got acclimated to writing 2024
...Yours truly (me) just got acclimated to writing 2024...
whenever I needed to append the date to a document
Though the situation infrequently arose
for me to incorporate the year (2024 in this ca...
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Categories:
cartoonish, adventure, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
My Seventh Decade
...As if startled awake
from fitfull sleep
Of dreams both cartoonish
Yet with meaning deep
My life having passed
as this very repose
A young woman
Now grand dame all as I dozed
For I mus...
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Categories:
cartoonish, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Black Water Smack
...Throughout my life dad and I have done many things together
graduating from Crayola, fishing and wiffleball
to tune-ups, casinos and funerals.
After one particularly salty funeral:
Dad and I we...
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Categories:
cartoonish, flower, funeral, funny,
Form: Free verse
Self Blocking
...You have blocked yourself as well
Not just only me
Take your time, I’m sure it tells
More than you can see
And that troubled person who
Liked to give advice
May have find another true
Lover t...
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Categories:
cartoonish, betrayal, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Revolution
...Suits, smiling & svelte
between
the sunshiny glass,
spinning…
Spinning fast, the Suits
near the speed of light,
cartoonish in fact.
I get caught up
in their whirlwind -
animated by t...
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Categories:
cartoonish, humor, imagery,
Form: Free verse
XYZA
...My head is a bowl of whirling thoughts
My mind,a rugged sea of jagged waves and shattered dreams
A caricature of a fulfilled life
Cartoonish belief in hope
The earth is my oyster and my grave...
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Categories:
cartoonish, depression, writing,
Form: Free verse
Idiot Sapphic
...Do you like me, or are you just kind?
Do I misconstrue
Your affectionate words,
Your gestures of a sweet nature,
As symbols of adoration?
Am I am idiot sapphic?
So unaware of flirtatious musi...
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Categories:
cartoonish, gender, girl, love, poems,
Form: Free verse
Polly Purebred Saved By Underdog
...Polly Purebred was a bit too stuck up for my taste.
But Underdog was always there, with a heave and a haste.
I remember being shocked when I saw him in color in 1964.
Picturing him in blues, not r...
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Categories:
cartoonish, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Itinere
...when i arrived on earth
I must have seen the rain through the window
it was saturday in the hospital room
busy women in white
fluttering snowflakes in my made-up memory
giving injections meas...
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Categories:
cartoonish, life,
Form: Free verse
Van Gogh and the Drinkers
...There is a hilarity in this canvas
Not often found in Van Gogh's art
And recognizable faces
Also unprecedented
They might be sneaking contraband liquor
Outside away from the prying eyes of the...
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Categories:
cartoonish, art,
Form: Narrative
Obsessive and Compulsive Little Me
...It is crazy to be this compulsive about so many things.
I draw out three or four cartoons a week that I paint.
It may take me another week, but I work on four at once.
My daily poem quota is ten, ...
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Categories:
cartoonish, art, self,
Form: Narrative
Cabbles Moet'
...we found it uncomfortable
to hear him rant.
we found it less considering to
try to understand his logic
his disposition
and even his words.
" YOU HAVE A FAMILY
I THINK YOU CAN UNDERSTAND
I D...
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Categories:
cartoonish, anti bullying,
Form: Imagism
Grandma's Objective Observations
...I am not saying this just because
he is my grandson but
He is the most athletic person
in the family
and he is
four
I am not saying this just because
she is the smartest person in the
famil...
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Categories:
cartoonish, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Light Verse
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