Patty Lives In Bloominghton, Indiana
...I'm writing this long letter
to a mysterious stranger,
I'm staring at her beautiful picture
with some tingling sense of rapture!
Patty lives in Bloomington, Indiana;
it's such a lovely town, n...
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Categories:
elmira, anxiety, beauty, betrayal, city,
Form: Lyric
Elmira Faerie has been Reassigned
...Elmira faerie used to paint teeth
It was disgusting.
She asked to be reassigned.
faerie manager took pity on her.
She now paints flowers white.
Lily of the valley, daisy, Queen Anne’s lace.
S...
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Categories:
elmira, fairy,
Form: Free verse
Confessing Eyes of a Little Boy
...The thought of Parades, Fireworks, and everything in between from Macy’s Herald Square. It was the capturing moment of the heart by a Five Year Old boy being the writer. I was a member of the MMG tea...
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Categories:
elmira, adventure, appreciation, boy, childhood,
Form: Free verse
The Mad Fiddler of the North, Part Ii
......His performances went for hours,
even when people drifted off,
he’d kept playing in the tavern
regardless of what others thought.
He would wind down like some old clock,
sometime playing st...
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Categories:
elmira, appreciation, beauty, character, crazy,
Form: Epic
Sometimes When Sleep Is Beyond Your Reach
...Sometimes when sleep is beyond your reach it feels like time it's self has slipped a gear A dimly lit room after midnight can cause the mind to reel from one dimension to another Th...
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Categories:
elmira, feelings,
Form: Free verse
One of the Best Days of My Life
...Before the darkside of my fathers drinking began to loom in the corners of my life I remember being lifted onto a barstool at his favorite watering hole in Elmira N.Y. ...
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Categories:
elmira, childhood,
Form: Free verse
A Brief Encounter
...While basking in the sun at Sarasota Bay
A couple approached Cathie and me
Nicest two people you'll ever want to meet
Welcomed us to the land of the free
They were from the town of Elmira, N...
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Categories:
elmira, friendship, people, people,
Form: Quatrain
I Wish My Home Complete Soon
...On this lovely beauty land
Holding sand in my hand
Trying to make a lovely home
By mixing water in the sand
Consisting large airy room
No need to clean with a broom
And golden mirror with mak...
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Categories:
elmira, fantasyhome, home,
Form: Lyric
Christmas Windows Iv - Goldspoint
...Every shop is decked out in holiday reds silvers greens
At Shelby's there is a train in the window
running through heavenly-soft hill and vale then
beyond a long tunnel - to t...
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Categories:
elmira, fantasy, childrenold, old,
Form: Free verse