THE GROOVE IS MIGHTY HIGH
...THE GROOVE IS MIGHTY HIGH/ LET’S THROW DOWN AND FLY UP TO THE SKY/
KEROUAC BLOWIN’WORD JAZZ WITH STRINGS/MILES AT THE BLACK KAWK, MAN WHAT A SCENE/ JACK AND MILES WALKED THE WALK AND TALKED THE JAZZ...
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Categories:
gogo, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Clam ah go-go
...Manila and Cockles
oh the steamers oh the steamers
Ensis and Razors
Carpet shell clams and Ynghylch
L...
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Categories:
gogo, music,
Form: Ballade
The Very Weird And Wonderful World Of Place Names: UK And US Edition
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I: THE UK
Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop,
Matching Tye and Droop
Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown,
Westward Ho! and Throop.
Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghe...
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Categories:
gogo, america, crazy, england, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Letting It All Hang Out
...Below the gray blah canopy
Suffering from bad attitude
and seasonal psychosis
The human race sprints
No finish line required
and Everyone wins gold
Music blaring
Bikini tops daring
Exposed gu...
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Categories:
gogo, adventure, crazy, drink, fun,
Form: Free verse
Weeh Thongo
...I've been me ,
A meepy child accused of crafts .
Tangled in my sleep ,
For waisting time ,
Loved the errors at cloud nine .
And still I made it with no trial.
I've lived in the upside down...
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Categories:
gogo, africa, art, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting For
...It’s like waiting for God,
oh so much. Yet why,
oh why so long?
Clocks move so slowly as I watch,
yes, watch my wrist, too, oh so long,
so long the clock, the watch,
the clock, the watch.
Ye...
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Categories:
gogo, absence, change, confusion, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Microlight
...Microlight
When they appeared, we were like, “What …the?” motorcycles
dangling from multi-coloured wings, animated comic book scene
blond wisps racing at leisure in deliberate mid-morning bree...
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Categories:
gogo, africa, change, culture, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Silent One - Poem Inspired By His Recent Write
...“SILENT ONE” – inspired poem
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Musicians unite for a cause, no cause celebre
But small nursing homes not on maps, or Frail Care facilities -
Magically coaxing ancient responses and memories,
An...
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Categories:
gogo, appreciation, care, caregiving, earth,
Form: Alliteration
Postulate A-Gogo
...I Read someone's words
All Agreements in tow
They made my heart cry
My Minds start to bleed
No one to follow
No one to lead
The words began to spread
By land, sea and air
Every known creature...
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Categories:
gogo, courage, fate, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Nope Not Even a Brief History
...Nope Not Even A Brief History...
About Month Named December
The Latin root (albeit - lo'
(mein lee) first two syllables
i. e. decem) - no
joking - translate to mean ten,
where millenniums ago...
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Categories:
gogo, creation, fate, january, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Dream Series: Yukiko and Tsuki
...Terrible dreams three days running, today's was an unbearable doozy. I woke up in a hotel room and had lost Tsuki and Yukiko. I had to get dressed and go out in the world searching for them.
But ...
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Categories:
gogo, dog, dream, fear, horror,
Form: Prose Poetry
Quirks and Preferences
...QUIRKS
I once had a friend long time past
Who was wont to always break his fast
On cornflakes not with honey and milk
But pickled onions, gherkins and their ilk
Now if that’s not a quirk I’...
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Categories:
gogo, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Wales 1 Germany 0
...WALES 1 GERMANY didn’t
The Germans take great pride
In long words measured by the clock
But can they compete when vied
With Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch...
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Categories:
gogo, language,
Form: Rhyme
Queen of the Motorhome Park
...V1
Connie was a looker, forty years ago.
Connie's still a looker, she looks like cookie dough.
You'll often find sweet Connie, talking to a mirror
Sayin, "Mirror mirror on the wall, please shri...
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Categories:
gogo, age, humor, song,
Form: Lyric
The Call of the East 1
...I felt a bit like Humbert, or John Proctor,
an ageing vulture drawn to fresh young flesh.
She was a pretty, witty Turkish doctor
(so, not exactly plundering the creche!)
She seemed to like ...
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Categories:
gogo, romantic,
Form: Quatrain
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