Dinged Poems

Float

...My drinks enticing and sweet
On a chair in the middle of the street
My little floaters been dinged
Toiling waves the edges singed
The wood alive with roaring flame
Waters pulsing like a broiling...

July 4th and the Web Footed

...Works of fire and thunder
flower the surface of a dark river.

When the rockets
are dead-eyed and spent,

muffled calls remain -
a flap and gabble,
of the peevish and ruffled.

Night stumbl...

Vanilla

...The phone dinged
as he passed,
lit up;
it was hers.
He didn’t mean to look.
“LOL, you are so mean.”
the message said.
Above which;
“NGL, he’s sooo vanilla.”
In response to;
“what’s he like ...

Mom's Homemade Soup

... 
I can still smell Mom's homemade soup on the stove,
she always had a pot simmering for us kids to welcome us home;
it was made in this huge soup pot which I inherited,
old, and ding...

Raggedy Ann-Ld

...A brand new doll, with braids and freckled face,
was tossed aside, left caged, with plastic bars.
She eyed the blue-eyed spat with no embrace.
Though box was dinged, she’d not receive ...

Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost

...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
ab...

Oar Maybe Not

...I rowed for what seemed like an hour;
the water gurgled oh so pleasantly.
I had the morning to myself:
no other boats as far as I could see.
Warmed up, I soon increased my stroke,
And pulled as ...

Strings

...She carries home onions in a string bag.
She walks in time-dinged tweed and wilted woolens
She is of age and does not count her days.
She knuckles cords of twisted tendons.
She treads low-heeled ...

Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004

...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matth...

Omg

...OMG
By R Henderson

Painful sweaty clumps of air converged.
From Uranus it demanded to be purged.
Your body full over engorged.
But the contract of passage had been forged.

The close escape,...

Spring Break Vi - Spectacular Miami Dinner

...By day six I was antsy
Stayed in my room all morning

I knew this would happen

While the glass-shatter of the ocean waves
And yelps of surprise from scores of little kids
Drifted in
Through ...

Golfing Etiquette

...There was this Scots golfer Sir Percy Hoar

    Who dinged a poor bloke nigh hole number four

        This made the dude mighty sore

            And after Percy he tore

                For...

Move To the Mainland

...Disembarkment hearkened a largely unknown universe 
Melbourne's sky lifting grid hidden partially
Behind rows of giraffe laughing palm trees

He dinged his car in the line to leave the car park
...

Priceless

...I treat you with the utmost care.
I wear these white gloves to handle you.

As you were fragile,
easily dinged,
and breakable.

I didn't do it because 
I was frightened,
I did it for you.

...

Brahms Lullaby

...The spiral staircase made her high heels sing, the metal tips on her heels dinged on the metal steps. 
The sound reminded John of bullets ricocheting on a tin roof he had heard two weeks befo...

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