3rd wheeling
...(A Christmas vacation vignette)
Lisa and I choppered onto Manhattan Island yesterday morning. We’d both felt toasted—so we took naps—and yay! We awoke recharged.
Later that evening, Lisa and I ...
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Categories:
high backed, boyfriend, christmas, happiness, humor,
Form: Free verse
EBENEZER
...Here I raise my Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I’ve come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Robert Robinson’s hymn Come Thy Fount of Every Blessing
To raise an...
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Categories:
high backed, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Armchair Warriors
...Armchair Warriors
They sit in their high-backed armchairs behind their ominous desks.
Fighting wars and hiding behind their outraged words.
Words that condemn the actions of history.
They critici...
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Categories:
high backed, war,
Form: Free verse
In An Old London Tavern
...The warm, dark wood of high-backed stalls
enclosed us like a womb,
and, nose to nose, we talked with eyes,
oblivious of the room.
You shone with special radiance
that welle...
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Categories:
high backed, love,
Form: Quatrain
Castle Gate
...It was the time before the celebration on Saint Peter’s day, when the noble page took a fine white scroll and was glad upon his way.
For a bird had whispered in this good page’s ear that what he bor...
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Categories:
high backed, humor, nonsense,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Grandfather
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My Grandfather
High-backed chair facing the corner,
Window over books so cherished
Loved.
Like the greatest of scholars, but still humble
He was a trove of stories
Air of silence on a place...
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Categories:
high backed, childhood, death, family, history,
Form: Elegy
My Boy / Bridgeport Ct 1981
...The images plucked from a full soft drive like over blown berries
threatening to fall……blasted to the humus. Swing chains creak.
The high-backed, heart carved, chalk white, front porch swing sways;...
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Categories:
high backed, childhoodhouse, school, house, school,
Form: Free verse
Care
...High-backed chairs around the walls
Frame their faces,
A gallery of despair.
Daytime TV droning daily
Offering tips
On cooking and hair.
Care workers lift, soothe, wipe,
Meaning well
Distribu...
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Categories:
high backed, caregivingold, old,
Form: Free verse