A Sense of Belonging
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"Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade
of reason: The desire to be what romantic love makes us
appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are
deserving of the love w...
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Categories:
gallagher, romance,
Form: Free verse
Liam and Noel Gallagher
...Talk of an Oasis feud is over,
Brit-pop the corks for the supernova,
fair play to those Burnage boys,
tour dates set to make some noise,
they'll walk in sunshine, champagne and clover.
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Categories:
gallagher, 10th grade, brother, music,
Form: Limerick
Watermelon-Wise
...Gallagher, likewise in the front row. Green
melon astringent holds bodily form. Flesh
seems harmless lying on the butcher’s table.
Rank and file juiced up for the battle. “Wizard-
of-Odd...
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Categories:
gallagher, angst, fruit, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Tale of the Gallaghers
...weird Gallagher couple was so intertwined, my dear friends
we could not tell where one started or the other one ends.
their faces were entangled, their freckles and noses in a blur.
to distinguish...
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Categories:
gallagher, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
'life In Prison For Believing and Spreading the Big Lie and Dismissing the January 6th Committee'
...Nikki Haley, Sean Spicer,
Trey Goudy, Richard Grenell,
Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly,
Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin,
Rick Santorum, Tucker Carlson,
Rupert Murdoch, Kimberly Guilfoyle,
Ed Rollins, Eri...
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Categories:
gallagher, political,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For My Lady
...My lady sits at the water front alone, pondering her day.
I sit on my steed, guarding her counsel, in every way.
Across the water is the town where her subjects live.
I am one of them, they call m...
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Categories:
gallagher, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Saturday Night In Relegation
...A word once spelled out
Defining what Saturday Night was all about
Lads from Bay City
Scene colorful, enchanting, and ever so pretty
Roller and rocking
Having one number that...
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Categories:
gallagher, america, health, literature, london,
Form: Rhyme
One of the Chosen
...Gallagher never expected a heavenly welcome
For he was not religious, nor spiritual.
He thought dead was well,
Dead.
His death was unexpected, he was young,
Invincible, not anywhere near deat...
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Categories:
gallagher, jesus,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Hummingbird Cake
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"The Hummingbird Cake"
The day started bright -
Bright Eggshell Blue
and ended in percussion
dark and cloudy stormed in
thunder pummelled...
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Categories:
gallagher, freedom, psychological, romance,
Form: Free verse
James Gallagher
...Think slow lyrics like Leonard Cohen. Think of his melody. His open talk that’s flowing. Now think of your life. Describe it in poem. Will it be happy or sad? Will it be good or bad? So, this one is ...
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Categories:
gallagher, bereavement, children, family, father
Form: Free verse
***** Theory
...Old Jane Gallagher,
she was fine,
in that sun shining on an every-day-girl sort of way.
Giggling
as her checkers clacked and she stacked up her kings,
funny
how young women enter men’s sen...
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Categories:
gallagher, confusion, first love, funny
Form: Prose Poetry
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947
...It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started ...
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Categories:
gallagher, memory,
Form: Prose
Remnants of a Saturday Night
...Sunday morning early, five a.m to be
precise, my mind awakes, then gently succours
the body to arise from one’s mundane sleep. I
then transfer to Britain via 1ZB, listening
to the English footbal...
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Categories:
gallagher, me, morning, people, social,
Form: Free verse
Until We Got To Oklahoma
...so we were cautious
I mean every single time we had to stop to pee
we checked it,
it was good -
and then when we did pull over, we pulled over ...
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Categories:
gallagher, time,
Form: Light Verse