'Twas the night before Christmas
...'Twas the night before Christmas quite a long time ago
I was nestled snugly in bed with my brother Joe
The stockings were hung neatly on our footboard rails
While we dreamt visions of Barbie’s Do...
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Categories:
footboard, christmas, color, dad, eve,
Form: Rhyme
Single Bed
...Single Bed
I’m an admiral of
my bed I sit on
now!
My rank of
sitting and lying in
the winter of
1995 in
Australia is of
the highest regard!
I know many officers of
the bed know...
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Categories:
footboard, humor,
Form: Free verse
Paper Kingdom
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A dream of dreams, then quickly vanished.
A dragon stitched through billowing clouds,
A fold-up wooded paper kingdom appeared.
I slowly sat up in my bed, right on my footboard it gripped.
Th...
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Categories:
footboard, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
...Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus
Found us abed thee twelfth day
of December, cuz yours truly
still felt dehydration, physical
fatigue and soreness,
which possibly li...
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Categories:
footboard, angel, december, dream, good
Form: Rhyme
Morning Musing
...I remember that day
a early spring day
cold snow melted away
and grass turning green
long cold winter gone
days of shivering cold
dormant brown grass lay not
beneath crystal blanket cold...
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Categories:
footboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Oh, Is This What I Was Waiting For
...Oh, Is This What I Was Waiting For?
When I was just a baby in the womb, my mother rejected me and I believe that the Lord told me many years later that she had wanted to lose me. She had been mar...
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Categories:
footboard, christian, courage, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Two Greatest Commandments
...37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love yo...
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Categories:
footboard, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick
When I Think of You-2
...When I think of you
When I think of you, I think of the needlessness
of such thoughts too. Because it is as simple as
who but you that’s saved in my mind’s memory bytes.
When I think , I thi...
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Categories:
footboard, life,
Form: Sonnet
Footboard Traveller
...People think I am a freak
Wondering what chaos I shall wreak
Seeing me they want to gag
Just cos I am dressed in rag
Shamelessly begging for alms
Cupping my blistered palms
Destitut...
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Categories:
footboard, lifeprayer, , western,
Form: I do not know?