Now and Then
...Fireworks now -- oohs, aahs, wows
Back then, musket shots in glens
Parades now -- amusing attractions
Back then, soldiers in traction
Population now -- hundreds of millions
Population ...
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Categories:
cotillions, history, independence day,
Form: Couplet
Fireflies
...We have them talking fireflies back home in the Piney Woods. They talk as sure as I'm talking to you now. They also laugh, and sing, and make love. And they ride these little horses. On full moon...
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Categories:
cotillions, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Rash
...hobo artists
share frowns
of
fortune.
hands give chaperon
harems to accelerate
truant arousal.
postscripts bargain ordeal,
casualties
fatalities
blossom hymns,
paying tribute to jagged...
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Categories:
cotillions, angst
Form: Free verse