Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia
...Where is this? Are we on Mars?
America – just count the stores,
capitalist carnivores.
That so-familiar movie score,
the swish of passing cars.
The city built on Brotherly Love
(Wells Fargo, ...
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Categories:
hangouts, places,
Form: Rhyme
Chapter 88 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Solomon Brothers: the Billards Blowout
...Early afternoon. The Solomon
Were in their, (according to Damali)
Club house. But the reality of the
Circumstance is this. The Club
House was the Damian Domaine.
Damian's Billards. Damian didn...
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Categories:
hangouts, africa, allusion, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
Piece of Peace
...*Piece of peace*
When it's a really tiring day,
When you have almost nothing to say,
What's to be done for an ease?
Just follow my way, of getting a piece of peace...
I closed my eyes and re...
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Categories:
hangouts, blessing, destiny, devotion, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Curriculum Vitae
...She calls herself Bunny Boucher, but she was born Veronica Chermak. She’s tall and leggy with a body that looks tidy, yet lived in. She’s high and tight, but flexible like a strong rubber band in a t...
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Categories:
hangouts, sensual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Unshakable
...Through Covid-19, school closings and quarantines
Online learning, Google Hangouts, Shelter in place
Missing our students and friends from our work place.
Wondering what will happen next- It’s all...
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Categories:
hangouts, change, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Quarantine
...Q- Quit all the hangouts , parties, you desperately want
U- Underground you remain, or in the hospital you might be found
A- A virus has attacked
R- Rich economy, now remains ransacked
A-Atteste...
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Categories:
hangouts, 11th grade,
Form: Acrostic
Half Moons
...In our late teens
We’d all doll up
Half moons at our heels
Spit shined our shoes
Bell bottom pants
Precisely creased
Bright shirts with poofy sleeves
Hitting the snooker halls
And other local...
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Categories:
hangouts, adventure, fashion, fun, growing
Form: Free verse
Dog Days Endure
...Dog days endure
The happy summers beneath the turquoise skies
Unclouded sun as blazing chandelier comes to go glorify
Showering rays plentiful than august rains
Blooming bluebells roses in this...
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Categories:
hangouts, beach, beautiful, happy,
Form: Rubaiyat
Dear Daughter,
...If you are reading this,
I want you to know
How you changed my life
How you lighten up my world
with your beautiful hazel eyes.
Your footprints on the cement
Your cute clever smile
And the wa...
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Categories:
hangouts, cancer, daughter, death, father,
Form: Free verse
Watching All My Memories Disappear
...Traveling through the Valley in my old car
Passing by the rubble that was Saint Ann's
Wondering what is happening to the valley
No more growth, I guess God had other plans
An empty lot where Sain...
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Categories:
hangouts, angst, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Wednesday, January 27
...Wednesday, January 27th,
unseasonably warm by a few degrees
black and white of old snow
and soon to be new trees rest
against smoldering grey clouds.
The “wolfy” wind rests
tired from Tuesday’s...
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Categories:
hangouts, morning, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Life of a Man In Words and Broken Sentences
...Birth: Cradle. Diapers. Mess. Cries.
First: Word. Step.
Sneezes. Doctor. Parents Doting Over. Brother/Sister...
Kindergarten: Swing. Toys. Daily Snoozes. Lunches.
School: Teachers. Marks. Pri...
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Categories:
hangouts, life,
Form: Concrete
When Muse Whispers
...11:45pm
i was at Andrew's,
she says
oh, i see, i say
you remember Andrew?
she says
i don't, sorry,
what about Andrew?
i say
i told you
i had a crush on this guy
7 years back in...
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Categories:
hangouts, anger, break up, emotions,
Form: Narrative
The Last Day of Don Quixote
...since there is a saying
“noble man walks on the thoroughfare”
Don Quixote abandoned the shortcut-side-road,
steering Rosinante, dashing into the highway
while he was riding on the highway
so...
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Categories:
hangouts, allusion, anger, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
...Let’s take out our apron, girls
Jiggle and dance, do sizzling twirls
Long weekday-chores were done
Now, it’s time to have some fun
Leave for a while our weekdays’ trek
Spruce ourselv...
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Categories:
hangouts, fun, girl,
Form: Rhyme
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