This Time Around: Glenn Hughes and Lordy
...LEGEND: GH - Glenn Hughes JL - Jon Lord/Lordy
GH: "Oh Lordy!"
JL: "Heil!"
GH: "How'd ya like puffin' that magic."
JL: "Bugs is outta the hat, man, -- so the trick is -...
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Categories:
footers, farewell, friendship,
Form: Lyric
Delphic
...Title 1
"The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me." ... by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The written word bears roots abound
Hail favored mist of hallowed ground
Announced ...
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Categories:
footers, appreciation, beautiful, caregiving, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Potting Shed Redux
...The Taj Mahal will one day fall,
They’ll build and tear down three more malls,
But one thing here when Jesus calls:
My wife’s new potting shed.
The concrete footers all are poured.
There’s eve...
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Categories:
footers, garden, retirement, silly,
Form: Ballad
Backfill
...The onset of construction
Left a gaping excavation.
They built a chain link fence
Around the hole.
Once the footers and foundation
Were sufficiently established
A dump truck load of gravel
Di...
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Categories:
footers, allegory, character, faith, hope,
Form: Free verse
Guys Can Be Shy
...Who could imagine
how many guys can be shy
Handsome six-footers in
knots, their tongues tied
They see a pretty girl and
go all wobbly in the knees
Their palms clammy with sweat
their...
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Categories:
footers, anxiety, boy, butterfly, social,
Form: Rhyme
Joining Hands Across Time
...First night in his final place
My dad called me weeping
“Please Bobby bring me home.”
His skin like ice cream
Melting on handle bars
Plopped in his wheelchair
Square
In the center cone of an...
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Categories:
footers, dad, farewell, father, journey,
Form: Free verse
Treat--Or Else
...So precious are wee trick or treaters,
much-loved by us generous greeters.
With sacks overflowing
and bright faces glowing,
they are grateful, sweet candy-eaters.
Then droves of six-footers co...
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Categories:
footers, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Ten Words Ten Lines 2-Big Surf Competition
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Ten words ten lines 2-Big Surf Competition
After a long ennui of big wave competitions
surfers take to Oahu's North Shore "to go for baroque."
For these bonafide big wave riders hangin...
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Categories:
footers, beach, beauty, culture, sun,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
footers, age, character, community, corruption,
Form: Light Verse
Ink-Stricken
...Somewhere between
vowels and consonants
you disappeared
Although I looked for you
beneath apostrophes
semicolons and quotation marks,
Really
"where are you love" I groaned
"I'm here, exp...
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Categories:
footers, allegory, books, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse