An unexceptional turning point in our marriage
...An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...
unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
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Categories:
gamboling, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Leaves
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The floral foliage of Fall fuels my pen to flow
Nature's carmine carnage is a crimson condition to watch
Russet quills of the trees float down in myriad shades
Amber leaves levitating like f...
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Categories:
gamboling, autumn, tree,
Form: Free verse
Making Not a Peep
...Little Bo-Peep adored playing hide and seek, hence the fond nickname;
Just as hued rainbow is named for its dazzle, so radiant over every lane!
Bo-Peep was eight, and lived on a farm. She...
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Categories:
gamboling, animal, color, fantasy, girl,
Form: Couplet
Nature's Show
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Oh, pretty little butterfly, flitting all around.
You can flash dance colorfully even with no sound.
Hummingbird, I see you too. You flap your wings so fast.
You super duper flapper, you are ha...
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Categories:
gamboling, nature,
Form: Lyric
small things
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sun …
glints off sweaty trickles as
they plop … plop …
little lad’s littler fingers tickling a
tide pool’s papery face
things of mysterious intention, darting
there to here to there …
wide...
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Categories:
gamboling, analogy, child, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten Field of Forever
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Forgotten field of forever - I knew you once . . .
in daffodil days when I wandered in wisteria ways.
Sprightly I skipped and rarely tripped.
Hope really did spring eternal then
in the sprin...
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Categories:
gamboling, childhood, war,
Form: Free verse
Sheep Valentine
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My thinking has gone wooly since you caught my eye.
I even started ambling into the pig sty.
From all the sheep in the flock, you surely did stand out.
What a fine ram you are. Of that, there ...
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Categories:
gamboling, love,
Form: Couplet
SHEEPSHAPE
...SHEEPSHAPE
If not a ram then a sheep is a ewe
White and woolly, docile it’s true
One of many, as part of a herd
Clustered together, as preferred
Various strains are kept and bred
Unless t...
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Categories:
gamboling, animal, appreciation, farm,
Form: Couplet
Adolescent infatuations never consummated
...Adolescent infatuations...never consummated
Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; ...
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Categories:
gamboling, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A positive impact on others
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Gratitude suffuses me today
at prospect to plumb the depths
of a fledgling friendship
(respecting fidelity to wife)
even one bound
within the parameters of cyberspace,
I feel courtesy your a...
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Categories:
gamboling, angel, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Virtual Trophies Wife For I
...Virtual trophies (wife for I)...
offered, husbanded, and collected
when winning solitaire
Nothing beats that exaltant rush of adrenaline
watching the computer generated cards
automatically r...
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Categories:
gamboling, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber
...Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine ...
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Categories:
gamboling, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
A Celestial Melody
...Seraphic phlox in a falling fluorescent flicker
pixie dust was cloaked in a raucous, auspicious.
A leaf of the halo tree, a gem of an airy slicker
My soul is coated with quiet-luring n...
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Categories:
gamboling, analogy, appreciation, beauty, muse,
Form: Pantoum
Springtide Lamb
...gamboling along -
springtide lamb, pure, snowy-white,
ebony ears & face
the frolic, precious; a kid
skipping with vivacity
10/11/2022...
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Categories:
gamboling, animal,
Form: Tanka
Foals
...There are foals in the paddock.
Long teetering legs, wobble, and bounce,
They explore my fence-leaning figure,
dash way.
Foals and their gamboling steps
are in my life again.
Later,
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Categories:
gamboling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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