Carny Day
...Its wet and drear in London dear, the pomp in on full trope
Though hope is gone, not dead for Jesus is the only hope!
Its foolish to trust in others; dopes.' In robes and words
In fear and force, ...
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Categories:
geriatrics, angst, appreciation, dark, education,
Form: Rhyme
On Coining An Acronym For the Neologism 'Occult Microaggresion'
...On coining an acronym for the neologism 'occult microaggresion'
'OM' is right,
But might get the Buddhists backs up....
OMA, WTAF? What about OMA?
Its German for granny, but I've no objection...
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Categories:
geriatrics, irony,
Form: Light Verse
Another Sunday Morning
...Another Sunday morning
Crouched in the beam of headlights
Steam coming off coffee and breath
Fumbling to pin race bib to pants
A romance
Of sorts; this dance I’m addicted to
Those magic numbe...
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Categories:
geriatrics, appreciation, happiness, motivation, race,
Form: Lyric
Cocky's Happy Ending
...So what did happen to old Cocky,
Swearing away, profanity?
We gave him a new abode,
A cage in a nursing home,
Old Cocky struck it lucky,
Full of parrots, like he,
Cocky believed in sharing,
Ol...
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Categories:
geriatrics, age, bird, character, giggle,
Form: Free verse
Life Is Just a Dress Rehearsal For the Real World
...ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE, AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS;... AND SO HE PLAYS HIS PART... LAST SCENE OF ALL,
THAT ENDS THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY...
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Categories:
geriatrics, future, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Pearls Beneath the Harbor
...Our bank accounts nearly emptied so we could afford a vacation; two young working girls who'd never been far from home. We were looking forward to finding love on a romantic tropical island. Maybe so...
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Categories:
geriatrics, people, places, world war
Form: Haibun
Twilight Zone
...The Twilight Zone
In the nearest town and close to all amenities
such as hospitals and funeral parlours my wife
and went to look at an elderly people’s hotel
where people of a certain age get...
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Categories:
geriatrics, age, allah, analogy, angel,
Form: Bio
The World of Geriatrics
...Grumpy
Elderly people
Ridiculously fussing over nothing
Inventing crazy stories
Attempting to get over bed rails
Trails of body waste on the floor
Repeating questions over and over
Insisting on being...
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Categories:
geriatrics, people,
Form: Acrostic
Retirement
...Geriatrics plays
this Puzzle now.
I dance, but stumble
into a waxed window
without anything but
nakedness.
Coarse is your
tongue
and dry are my
interests in you.
Once an icon,
I'm prepared
t...
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Categories:
geriatrics, angst, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The Seed
...Seed before dawn
Youth and adolescence by day
Adulthood and geriatrics by evening
Seed before dawn again!...
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Categories:
geriatrics, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?