His Legs Would Not Reach to the Ground
A man from Connecticut found
His legs would not reach to the ground.
“I wish I was shorter,”
He told a reporter,
“To stop all this floating around.”
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Categories:
connecticut, fantasy, flying, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
Reflection On An Aging Nomad
I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
harness them in,
and wheel them back off, their diverse buses
and robotic ramped vans.
During those final weeks of quasi-gainful employment
I amped up my search for a new
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Categories:
connecticut, age, health, integrity, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
Connecticut Summer
Budweiser T-shirt
And hair to my jaws,
Viet Nam waning
While Watergate roared:
Was a summer in Milford,
On Long Island Sound,
In a cottage with family—
We swam and we crabbed,
Suffered sunburn a lot,
And bikini-clad girls
Went stealing my eyes
To teach me of beauty
And life’s ultimate prize.
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Categories:
connecticut, life, memory, summer,
Form: Free verse
A Cowboy In Connecticut
He's a cowboy in Connecticut
All Southern drawl and wide tooth grin
No matter how he tries it ain't no lie
The boy just don't fit in
He wears his Stetson hat, Alligator boots
Jingle Jangle Spurs with stylish Chaps
He dresses the part this cowboy work of art
Draws attention wherever he's at
He loves his Karaoke
Always requests a yodel song
When he's
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Categories:
connecticut, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Bridgeport Connecticut
Five years later I still think about:
sitting on the wooden steps
of your backyard
in a heatwave
summer wind bangs the screen door shut
your hair against your face, sticky heat
gravel between our toes
sun burned rocks
sweating through my shirt
I can smell your deodorant
damp baby powder
you peel grapefruit into centimeters
and slip it between my teeth
just for heartbeat I can taste
your
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Categories:
connecticut, best friend, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Dear Newtown Connecticut
Dear Newtown Connecticut, may you be filled with grace,
I turn on the T.V. to witness the tragedy~and find Love in IT'S place,
You are so strong in moving on~you have NO Choice I see,
I hear you cry but Hero's died~ You are the true HERO'S to Me!
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Categories:
connecticut, angel, angst, confusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Mourning the Little Angels of Connecticut
Mourning the Little Angels of Connecticut
What a tragedy for all of us humans
To watch malice harvesting your youth
The noblest thing humanity can offer
To the everlasting universal truth
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Categories:
connecticut, grief, heaven,
Form: Epigram