Grandparents Couplet Poems

The Last Organ Grinder


                     The...

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Inquiring of my grandparents to explain love,
Teasing grandpa said, "Togetherness alone pays."

I asked him, what's kept you together all these years?
"Tethers do not work, the...

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Za Za Zoom, Za Da Zing: Gen Zoomers
Ba Da Boom, Da Bing: Baby Boomers
Tech awakens in Baby Zoomers
Their Zoom nature being late bloomers

Digital video stays...

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I was five when our house went up in smoke
My dad was out of work, and we were flat broke
There was no fire department in...

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What's in all those flasks and beakers
  Powerful brains for inspirational speakers

What's thawing out in that microwave
  Like-new used lungs, they're all the...

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Delete Fear and Dance
                 (Ode to Joy)



Many fear-mongers met...

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              A CALL TO LIVE


Hands joined, strolling on quiet, lamplit, peaceful streets.
We,...

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Do you remember when........


We played imaginary games as kids?
The PC Police did not flip their lids.


It was truly a magical time to be.
Cowboys, Indians, yes...

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There's anger afloat in the air;
folks are dying from lack of care.

Those in intensive care fear death; 
no ventilators; out of breath.

Old folks under strict...

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Woman 
legs ~ breasts ~ thighs 
hips ~ lips ~ eyes 

Man 
strength ~ muscled ~ arm 
masculine ~ grit ~ charm 

Children 
fun ~...

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Heroin is like a poisonous snake, slithering along seeing what it can take,
Truth is it takes all that it can, off a neighbour, a friend,...

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DUNKING ONE'S BISCUIT  . . . 

Dunking one’s biscuit is more than a flippin’ skilled art
When getting it to one’s mouth without it falling...

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We weren't rich by any means
but our bellies were full and our clothes were clean

They didn't display those high priced names
but they wore fine just...

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The Alphabet Contest
Sponsor: Alfred Vassallo

A Is For Anniversary

Their love story began on April twenty-third, nineteen forty-five,
    two young lovers vowed eternity before...

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The Past, Our Ancestors Gifted Us As Our Future

There are no words we know, fragrant and green,
Wherewith to show how welcome you have been.

You solaced...

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