Mabel's Strange Predicament
...It’s 1914, and Hollywood star Mabel Normand has just
helped new boy Charlie Chaplin to develop his “Tramp”
character. She is wondering if she’s done the right thing.
I gave him everything – ...
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Categories:
glibness, film,
Form: Rhyme
Nettles
...God allows some nettles among our flowers,
And as we encounter these days of frown.
From the far horizon, a confluence of showers,
To retain life's garden from remaining brown.
Periodically we see o...
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Categories:
glibness, faith, inspirational, universe,
Form: Lyric
White Flying Lies
...She speaks with her nose opened wide
Like that of Queen Elizabeth the none
From the fringe of the nose
She speaks very fluently
Chewing Queen’s language
With her head high up
She must have ...
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Categories:
glibness, adventure, funny, people, wife,
Form: Free verse
Love Is Unlike...
...Love is unlike the game of chess,
as time moves on it matters less,
in absence, fonder grows the heart
of someone else less far apart.
The pressure fades upon the will,
and like a blue re...
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Categories:
glibness, lost love, love, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
The Girl In the Car
...It is the girl in the car, on warm leatherette,
Who, in the Summer slipstream, teased the wheel
And gunned her engine heart;
She graced the passing furnace air, and angel sweat
Tracked slowly...
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Categories:
glibness, introspection, life, love, people,
Form: I do not know?