Puff and Stuff
...He puffed the magic dragon
Till he was ninety-three
And frolicked in a smoky mist
Beneath the ganja tree
With little pipes and papers
He loved to huff and puff
It made him think such silly th...
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Categories:
jonesing, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Come try this
...Here come try this you will have soo much fun.
You will loose everything you have every material posession and every loved one.
Up all night riding bicycles and treasure hunting through other peopl...
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Categories:
jonesing, abuse, addiction, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Jonesing For An Aviron
...I’m jonesing for an Aviron,
a name you likely do not know,
but they have really come along
and made a splash in game-based rows.
I’ll set a course for Avalon,
or play a game of Breaker now,
o...
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Categories:
jonesing, appreciation, health,
Form: Quatrain
Java Jonesing Blues
...Quitting coffee and should it kill me
Want to say that it's been fun
Sidled up to this specific teat
Not long after my first weaning done
My body trying to clue me in
As I clung to my drug o...
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Categories:
jonesing, dark, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Six Mile Hike
...Six mile hike
Twelve hundred feet of climb
Viv in a pack
Up on my back
I’d do it anytime
Six mile hike
Left a car at the top
Hiking through lava
Jonesing for java
Didn’t see a shop
Six ...
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Categories:
jonesing, blessing, daughter, granddaughter, nature,
Form: Light Verse
For Sean Knowles, 1984-2021, Brother
...For My Brother Sean,
1984 -2021
I can't say I'm mad
Though mad at you, I am.
I cant say I'm sad,
Though so very sad I am.
I drive a path everyday
That leaves me open for dead
I pleaded sile...
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Categories:
jonesing, anger, death, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Solo Performance
...It had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpet...
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Categories:
jonesing, age, earth, family, health,
Form: Political Verse
Jonesing
...I think about love
loving you
but there's
only so many thoughts that I could have
only so many things I can write
before I want to
explore ever so gently
the many places
of your body tha...
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Categories:
jonesing, joy, love,
Form: I do not know?
If a Tortoise, If a Turtle
...Dedicated to my favourite poet - Shelley
If a tortoise, if a turtle
You are never going to hurtle
Witness how your limbs are placed
Splayed east to west, all carapaced
what if some me...
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Categories:
jonesing, animal, destiny, funny, health,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Stalked By August Trees
...Every time I change directions
lately, and possibly beforely,
Trees stand by to mentor
and nurture,
to feed with branched hands
to bleed when uprooted
from aptic past centuries
of hibernating ...
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Categories:
jonesing, august, community, food, health,
Form: Free verse
The Dry Heat
...stars slowly diminish
darkness completes
still we feel the suffers of heat
the fever suspends in the thick
a velvet’s texture mix
clinging to skin as if drowned
dawn flexes, stretches a...
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Categories:
jonesing, seasons, weather, wind,
Form: Free verse
Traveling Death Salesman
...I can't sleep.
Or, I can
and did
for three hours
but I continue waking
into a Stephen King nightmare
too real to ignore
because I feel isolated
in this quagmire
of hopeless history.
In th...
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Categories:
jonesing, depression, dream, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
In This Taoist's View
...Could we be doing our best
to invest in Earth's cooperative health markets?
While you sell our most competitive killing machines
to our Saudi Arabian cousins.
Referencing this touchstone as an ...
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Categories:
jonesing, destiny, earth, fear, hate,
Form: Political Verse
Stepsister Princess
...No! Cut this piece here!
No! Not there!
Why didn't you cut it right?
says Princess StepSister's
hyper-ventilated syndrome,
jonesing for her next pork chop.
I would have finished
but you be...
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Categories:
jonesing, appreciation, happiness, health, love,
Form: Political Verse
So Many Struggles, So Little Time
...Why does "sacrilegious"
mean struggling against sacred health experience
rather than struggling with re-ligioning monotheistic divinity
to notnot dualling polytheistic dividity?
How could prodi...
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Categories:
jonesing, anger, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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