Cribbage Poems - Poems about Cribbage

To the Strongest Woman I've Ever Known

...To the strongest
Woman I’ve ever known,
The brightest light in every 
Room, Church,
Hall and building
That she 
Ever entered.

To the strongest 
Woman I’ve ever known,
You never knew
How y...

Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled Adolescent

...Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...

therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?

Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered, 
and mortally wounde...

Clerihew Suckling

...Cambridgeshire's John Suckling
poetry's versifier king
Also part of his baggage
he invented a board or cribbage...

Like the Early Morning Mists

...Like the early morning mists 
That rise from the waters’ depths
Memories emerge in swirls and twists
Foggy shadows of lives past 
Of them all, childhood scenes outlast
‘Membrances of dear, famil...

House of Cards

...Play hearts?
  No smarts

Blackjack?
  Lack knack

Go fish?
  You wish

Try bridge?
  Ask Midge

Old Maid?
  Afraid

Cribbage?
  Priv'lege

Euchre?
  Nuke her

Hold 'em?
  Fold ...

A Rdf Day - Rain, Drizzle Foggy

...It was a foggy, rainy day,
Slight breezes skipped across the bay,
Touched the shorelines and the hills,
Across the fields, buffing houses
And chilled us to our bones.

I and my brother Gerry we...

Thankful For Thanksgiving Memories - Thanks

...Thanksgiving Day has always been a special holiday 
A long tradition celebrated with family in a joyful way 
In my younger years we went to my grandparent’s house
When I was young and single and l...

Incomplete Metamorphosis of This Stilled Adolescent

...Incomplete metamorphosis of this stilled adolescent...
petrified, sheltered, and mortally wounded prepubescent

I consider myself
analogously buttressed, cocooned,
garrisoned, hardened, insulate...

Long Distance Phone Call

...Been waiting for fifteen minutes to connect my call
Not sure if the location code is known.
Keep getting invalid number please try again
What’s up with this phone?

Oh, I hear some progress in t...

Anyone Game

...The Trivial Pursuits of my fun youth
involved challenge more than I’m so Sorry
or look for a Clue while driving freeway.

We’d fend off Trouble without undue Risk

Donny Brook Doth Runnel Along

...Generating a ring
     of bright waters, which
currently meanders, ponders,
     and then streams - twitch
ching reflexively as flora
     and fauna lap rich
text chard liquid
     timelessly ...

My Dear Sister

...We were both born in November
               ....... just two years apart
Having you as my big sister
               ....... I was off to a great start
You were much more than a sister
         ...

Loneliness Lives Next Door

...We learned about lonely people
At a tender impressionable age

Our neighbour was sixty or so
A widower leading a quiet life

Grand-father figure to us kids
We’d drop by visit the odd afternoon...

A Waterfall At Midnight

...Two old men meet for coffee
once a week at a diner while 
their wives play cribbage. 
Jim says he has a problem. 

His wife leaves the water running 
in the bathroom sink late at night.
Jim sa...

Home

...Winter morning light filters through lace curtains,
Reaches down, spills onto the corner kitchen sink,
Through east and south facing windows.
The glass jar, the scrub brush and pad in plastic butt...

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