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Connecticut Poems - Poems about Connecticut


Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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

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