Fool Us 44 Times
...Press clippings full of hope
'Can't-miss prospect'
Say pundits with inside dope
Year One, Expectations Low
Year Two, Frustrations Grow
Year Three, 'Can't-miss' has got to go
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Categories:
cutler, farewell, football, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Weekend Memory
...Late 1940s England
the square
was packed
& the high street full
meat&veg seemed plentiful
market barkers
drew the queues
with jokes
impromptu
shoppers filed
neat& f...
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Categories:
cutler, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Market Day
...the square
was packed
& the high street full
meat&veg seemed plentiful
market barkers
drew the queues
with jokes
impromptu
shoppers filed
neat& formal
in sainsburys g...
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Categories:
cutler, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
A Walk To Kedleston
...Take watercolour peach, lavender blue
a canvas morning sky, the clouds a frame,
gilt treetops harvest fire, leaves brightly hued
awakened now the arbor tips became.
Lone footprints in the dew o...
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Categories:
cutler, morning, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Why Had I Asked Him To the Ball
...My best friend, Suzanne, and I went to the same church.
I lived in Coral Gables; She lived in Cutler Ridge.
Her boyfriend went to my school; I had no boyfriend.
Being friends at church some of us tal...
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Categories:
cutler, angst, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, life,
Form: Narrative