Thanksgiving Leftovers
...The 20-pound butterball turkey rests
On a table laden with condiments;
We bow our heads, reach out our hands and bless
And say grace which presupposes our content.
But as we eat, the elephant ...
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Categories:
harrumphs, family, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form: Sonnet
Before the day turns into night - NFC
...Before the day turns into night
Bullfrogs quietly rehearse their “harrumphs”
Dragonflies draw slowly closer to shore
Mosquitoes hone their epees
Bats line the runway awaiting take off
In the len...
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Categories:
harrumphs, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Overstimulated, Perhaps
...An Ex-President goes thump
No one jumps
Current President falls
America harrumphs
Apathy abounds throughout the land...
What moves people, what stimulates their glands
Why...
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Categories:
harrumphs, america, leadership, people, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Oh, October
...Your chill will turn the leaves
bacon crisp
as flowers droop
pole dancing roses
will shed their petals.
Squirrels will play
Hide and seek
with acorns,
distant arrows honk
their long good-bye...
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Categories:
harrumphs, autumn, change, halloween, october,
Form: Free verse
Pictures Painted On My Mind
...I have a little paintbrush
that dabbles in my mind
creating its own versions
of what my eyeballs find.
Soft chill of mist on swaying frond
challenging a sun warm dawn
grey ghosts dancing on t...
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Categories:
harrumphs, art, beauty, memory,
Form: Verse
Fourteen Characters In Search of a Plot
...The Actors assemble on the stage
Where they’d been for years and for days,
And read their lines and read their lives
From the fragmented script of an unwritten play:
Says The Callow Young Man ...
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Categories:
harrumphs, surreal,
Form: Rhyme