Drunken Outback Dog
...My brown kelpy outback dog
Quite often gets on the grog,
He chases his tail constantly,
Briefly stopping to scratch a flea,
Then, off with the sheep to play leap-frog....
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Categories:
kelpy, children, funny,
Form: Limerick
Sufficient Unto the Day
...Let the evils of the day suffice to themselves,
Let not the dark descend to deeper depths.
Let our better angels draw their subtle breaths,
To softly sing of virtue 'round our souls' deep wells
A...
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Categories:
kelpy, introspection, life, peace, psychological,
Form: Italian Sonnet
A Bowl of Glass
...Imagine,
picture, if you will,
a glass bowl, clear crystal --
a bubble.
Create, therein,
an atmosphere,
diaphanous, of water.
Pebble its bottom
with small shards:
amber, flint, obsidian
and...
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Categories:
kelpy, allegory, imagination, nature,
Form: Free verse
To a Fellow Sailor
...Docked on an opposite shore,
peering through round portholes
as the river who flowed me to different landscapes
slips past, current furious:
not quite a pleasure cruise.
No swimming pools splash...
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Categories:
kelpy, brother, dedication, friendship, loveme,
Form: Free verse