Numbers In Uphill Letters
...[A cuppa with mademoiselle Fana Tesfagiorgis]
I had just driven my ageless self into the Kaufmanns’ 1936–1939
Frank Lloyd Wright-constructed Pennsylvania getaway:Falling Water Mansion–
In a 1...
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Categories:
footrest, appreciation,
Form: I do not know?
Flower Bed
...She sleeps under her perennial sheets
Her mattress is six feet deep
The head and footrest approximate her size
Her hand holds a single red rose that cries
Years ago, her bed was scented
With c...
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Categories:
footrest, betrayal, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Sunrise On the Prairie
...Sunrise on the Prairie
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Sun rising from the east
Windmill spinning from the southwest
What amazing sight it cast
On the prairies in way out west.
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Mountains out far-away from the past
Ou...
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Categories:
footrest, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Harry's Barbershop
...A cluttered barbershop in my old hometown I fondly call to mind,
Was a gathering place to loaf and socialize, a great place to unwind!
Harry, the barber, kept farmers, the local rabble and boys lik...
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Categories:
footrest, funny, nostalgia, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing Less But the Best
...In my resolve I make my quest to be the best
In my reforms I stand higher than the rest
For I fit not within my enemy's nest--
nor kneel at my adversaries' footrest
Pandering not to mindless foll...
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Categories:
footrest, song-lyric
Form: Rhyme
Together
...At 85, the old lady inches slowly
towards her living room
holding firmly to her walker,
her mind is sharp-as sharp as it's ever
been.
Her legs have become weak
with age,
she can no longer see ...
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Categories:
footrest, lifeold, cat, old,
Form: Free verse
Cat Fight At the Window
...Mom was watching TV and relaxing in her chair
Dad was working on his crossword puzzles with care.
Snoop was on his table where he likes to lay
Looking out the window at the end of the day.
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Categories:
footrest, petscat,
Form: Rhyme
Signed In Blood (Part 3)
...I shake out my jacket
and crack my neck
to regain my control
although I’m enjoying
being hostile.
The room is now darker than pitch
so I remove my shades
from the windo...
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Categories:
footrest, angst, death, imagination, pain,
Form: Free verse
Fabel Seventeen Part Two
...Eye left some bags underneath the moonlight with some messages from me to
ewe if someone finds them please just not to worry eye will say the thief just took
them and thank them for finding them ...
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Categories:
footrest, history, imagination, life, on
Form: Prose Poetry