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Stricken With Turbulence At About Seventy Two Inches

...Stricken with turbulence at about seventy two inches

Yours truly issuing a deafening rebel yell
bursting forth with such might
courtesy cooking under pressure
analogous to volcanic upswell,
fo...

Categories: cowbell, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Name That Tune

...Verse, refrain.
Chorus and cowbell.
Verse, refrain.
Chorus, and cowbell.
Bridge.
Verse, refrain.
Chorus, more cowbell.
Instrumental bridge.
Drum solo.
Verse, refrain.
Even more cowbell.
Fa...

Categories: cowbell, allegory, music, song,
Form: Burlesque

Reflections

...I'd say it was late Spring or early Fall in 1954, a quiet time
in American history; and Mr. Eisenhower was The President.
There was a sweet and kind teacher hard at work,
teaching  kindergartners ...

Categories: cowbell, 1st grade, childhood, school,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Mommy, Let's Go Ride Maxwell

...two roundels

“Mommy, let’s go ride Maxwell, Don’t say no again.”
My son has named ev’ry horse on the carousel.
“We will go soon!”, I promised but I don’t know when.
“Mommy, let’s go ride Maxwel...

Categories: cowbell, 11th grade, horse, son,
Form: Rhyme

Miss Bahamian Culture

...Miss Bahamian Culture
a woman who pledges loyalty
to put Bahama land from the time
she was conceived out of the womb


Miss Bahamian Culture
a woman who sheds the blood
of gold, black and aqu...

Categories: cowbell, culture, patriotic,
Form: Free verse

Screaming Guillotines

...Screaming Guillotines

I.

I sit on the wide veranda of this house called America,
And I can see the Beast Boys coming our jungled way,
Coming like wild torrents of lapping flames over the asto...

Categories: cowbell, allegory, america,
Form: Free verse

Six-Word Couplet Series

...Soiree
See you Saturday
In Santa Fe

Fancy Shebang
Quick overnight boomerang
In convertible Mustang

Masked Escapade
No typical charade
Invitation says masquerade

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Categories: cowbell, adventure, celebration, fantasy, fun,
Form: Couplet

Take Me With You

...If you go downtown early morning
You can see the shopkeepers setting
Old treasures on the sidewalk,
Writing their welcomes with chalk
On little standing blackboards,
Inviting you inside their st...

Categories: cowbell, adventure, america, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Verse

A Poet's Worth

...It’s the joy of today and the loss of tomorrows,
a boy at the bat, all his bases and sorrows.

It’s the music we touch when we hear lovers’ hearts,
or the hustle and bustle of local food marts.
...

Categories: cowbell, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Growing Up Rich

...Growing Up Rich

My childhood home was just four rooms, heated by a black stove in the kitchen.
No phone, no car, a toilet in the basement. Money was tight. The rent had to be paid.

I spent my ...

Categories: cowbell, childhood, family, lifemom, school,
Form: Narrative

And It Stood Right Over There.

...there once stood a man who in dungarees trained,
all his horses to run with his denim shirt stained.

There were fresh jars of liquor and bushels of wheat.
There was a cowbell that clanged:" Time...

Categories: cowbell, allegory, cowboy-western, dedication, lossred,
Form: Couplet

Bert's Country Store

...A long-standing landmark that I often visited as a tyke,
Was Bert's Country Store just a ways up Dalton Pike.
Dalton could be missed if your eyes you'd briefly close.
The population at that crossr...

Categories: cowbell, nostalgiaold, old,
Form: Rhyme