Charlies Poems

Premium MemberCharlies Schedule

...Diane’s dog Charlie is her baby; more than her son ever was.
He likes me better than Stewart did too, she tells me.
Charlie’s therapy appointments are on Monday.
On Tuesdays he has his nails groom...
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Categories: charlies, dog,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRaptors At Night

...hunting and circling for prey
the moonlight reflects ~
wispy winged moving shadows

loud screeches echo
winds howl as tree leaves rustle ~
rough water dances in tune

an eagle soars in circle...
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Categories: charlies, bird, night, river,
Form: Haiku


Premium MemberSpring - Nk

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welcome new spring
and the rain
birds that sing
vines that chain
flower blooms
a blue sky
air perfumes
and clouds up high

and the birds fluttering a wing
a wild woodland ter...
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Categories: charlies, nature,
Form: Haiku

Do You Think Own a Chocolate Factory

...was on Charlies Bucket list...
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Categories: charlies, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Charlies Boarder

...I was working up Loch Valley logging for a local mill;
camping in a make-shift hut I built half way up a struggling hill.
I worked till lunchtime every Friday, then came in from the scrub,
spendin...
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Categories: charlies, animal,
Form: Rhyme


I Am From

...I am from Northern Ireland, from Potatoes and Green Fields, Damp rainy weather, I am from the Middle of nowhere, I am from slate tiles, from fireworks,
I’m from Willows and Pete Moss, from I Spy and...
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Categories: charlies, 10th grade,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberSongbirds

...song birds so bright
wings in flight, a
sweet sight for me

swoosh, they are gone
back with song, when
it's dawn again 

2/3/19

Any Theme Than-Bauk Contest
Sponsor: Charlies Messina

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Categories: charlies, bird,
Form: Than-Bauk

Premium MemberBird

...The bird was blue
in the dew morn,
he threw his words

From a branch place
his home base claim,
his face was, sour 


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January 27, 2019


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Categories: charlies, fun,
Form: Than-Bauk

Premium MemberAll Them There Charlies

...And there’s a Charlie
A character curiously cartooning
One of the Charlie’s careening and in crusade
Maybe someday he’ll be in a Macy Day parade

Charlie Chicken 1942 anthropomorphic chicken
An...
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Categories: charlies, analogy, assonance, celebrity, character,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberThere Were Reindeer

...Winter storm Blizzard, dangerous 
White out conditions.   An unassuming man
From Puerto Rico was driving in it, when
He and hundreds of others were forced to
Exit the interstate.  

He was glad...
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Categories: charlies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry

Of Kings and Queens

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Every shogun nation wanna be 
in war visor control
Commandeer the missile steering wheel,
be the king of the road

Likewise, imperial power lust eyes
wanna be the top wing of the hiv...
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Categories: charlies, corruption, evil, metaphor, power,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member''There Is No Place Like Home'' - Wiz

...I was just a little lost cat,
            so afraid when that wild, crazy tornado hit;
so, I hopped into a nearby basket lying quite flat,
then, this girl, her dog and me were spinning and wind li...
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Categories: charlies, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

The Fruit Man

...Remember Beefsteak Charlies?
I don’t remember the last time I saw one
but every time I see one of those
tomatoes, I remember Charlie
my Charlie, the one who befriended me
he didn’t have to, afte...
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Categories: charlies, appreciation, grandfather, imagery, journey,
Form: Free verse

A Fire In the Heart of Our Darknes

...we sat, my brother and I
leaning against the old wood pannels of the room
the smoke engulfed us like breath
as the threat of violence loomed

his voice was quiet still
passion and regret burned...
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Categories: charlies, war,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberCharlies Angels

...Charlie was the instrument
behind his investigating team
though no one saw his face
the telephone link worked a dream
 
John Bosley was the head
making sure operations did smoothly run
keeping the an...
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Categories: charlies, angel, beauty, memory, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

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