A Walk Through a Small Park
...My lady friend and I sit on stumps. When she sings
she rings the woods with a monarch's butterfly wings.
A crowd of bikers
on foot as hikers
in thick with woods
unsaddles moods.
Old ladies ...
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Categories:
lady friend, adventure, city, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Farewell
...The sweet voice of the announcer
Echoed through the airport.
Ladies and Gentlemen
Gate 4 Malta Paris is now open.
Take your hand luggage
And have your tickets ready.
*
He...
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Categories:
lady friend, longing,
Form: Free verse
The Cost of Living
...A faceless man is standing in produce.
He’s crying. No one stops.
No one asks him why.
He says the sky is falling
He says it again and again.
He grabs a passerby’s arm
and tell them it’s fallin...
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Categories:
lady friend, depression, grief, jobs, lost
Form: Free verse
PS Male Poets: Six Years Later
...
6 years ago, I wrote limericks about 5 PS poets. Today, I've posted
about another 5 and will continue to add more... before 6 years.
I tickled funny bones of five Souper men
So, I gave though...
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Categories:
lady friend, how i feel, humorous,
Form: Limerick
She always had a kindly word
...Sweet lady friend to all
Let’s be ready should she fall
He said Let he who cast the first stone
He did not leave her alone
Showed her the errors of her ways
Stayed to help and love her A...
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Categories:
lady friend, love,
Form: Rhyme
Grandpa Knew What to Say
...Grandpa Elephant had a new lady friend on line.
He invited her to meet him at Scarsdales to dine.
Dressed up in his Sunday best along with his Derby hat.
Don’t you look spiffy! His grandchildren s...
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Categories:
lady friend, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Nutcrackers Last Waltz
...
Upon a high, cobwebbed bookcase
there lay a forlorn nutcracker
who once ...
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Categories:
lady friend, happiness, miracle,
Form: Personification
Hey Piano Man
...Yeah you
Play me a melody that’s smooth
My heart needs music that will soothe
My mind in the senses
Sounds embraces
Racing to new heights
Moving on from a plight
It’s a lady friend I remember
...
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Categories:
lady friend, adventure, appreciation, beauty, break
Form: Free verse
Autumn Constanza
...Death took you like a sneak thief
Just before Autumn gold appeared
The time of year your soul revered
Proving that life is all too brief
The loss too vivid to comprehend
My beautiful gracious ...
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Categories:
lady friend, autumn, friendship, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Respite From Mortality
...Poetry knows no age, as thee Marcia
Abramsohn (the former ex lady friend
of my late father corresponded with me
some years back)
wrote (by hand nonetheless,
a long lost art) inlaid with ambidext...
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Categories:
lady friend, absence, age, anxiety, birth,
Form: Free verse
So Delicately Penned
...The trail is lovely here around the bend
The rains of spring have formed a clear, deep pool
God's handiwork, so delicately penned
The red buds, almost hard to comprehend
Adorned in pink and rub...
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Categories:
lady friend, beauty, god, nature,
Form: Villanelle
We All Have That One Sibling
...We all have that one sibling who has to have the attention, right?
I am a laid-back Tom, and happy without attention, day and night.
My sister Tallahassee is one who needs to delight a room.
Full ...
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Categories:
lady friend, sister,
Form: Rhyme
Dealing With Grief
...Dealing with Grief
A lady friend of mine was trying to deal with the loss of both parents as well as her Husband all pretty much at the same time. She was having real difficulty dealing with it. ...
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Categories:
lady friend, anxiety, death, depression, grief,
Form: Narrative
Never Break My Heart
...A friend hands him an envelope with familiar handwriting
a note from his lady friend—why didn’t she bring it, he’s inquiring
he opens the envelope, reading the contents carefully
It’s a Dear John ...
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Categories:
lady friend, betrayal, break up, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Catnapped
...Smokey was a lovely cat.
He was a big black Persian,
And Mama had a lady friend,
Who was a not nice person.
She lived across the way from us,
And envied everyone.
Whatever nice things that th...
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Categories:
lady friend, cat, childhood, mother,
Form: Quatrain
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