I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025
...I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025...
the first time this summer,
when martyrdom got chucked aside for cold comfort.
How heavenly the climate controlled apartment
unit...
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Categories:
leiper, cool, environment, humorous, june,
Form: Free verse
The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie
...The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie
Like a humane huntress, she
(the anthropomorphized storm)
brought a spate of cool Autumn like
temperatures and gentle soothing rain
here within my ...
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Categories:
leiper, adventure, appreciation, august, cool,
Form: Free verse
Saturday, September 23, 2023
...Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn E...
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Categories:
leiper, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
ab...
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Categories:
leiper, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Autumnal Equinox 2022
...Autumnal equinox 2022 -
Thursday, September 22
in Northern Hemisphere 9:03 PM
Eastern Daylight Time
Empyrean découpage citadel
betokens (bespeaks) autumnal arrival
nine oh three post meridia...
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Categories:
leiper, autumn, color, environment, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Farchadat Alte Kaker Here At Highland Manor Apartments
...I (a youthful sexagenarian)
can no longer quip being
a country boy at heart,
but me as urban cowboy,
I declare would never
so fuhgeddaboudit dear reader
nothing 'cept bucolic existence
labori...
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Categories:
leiper, adventure, atheist, character, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004
...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004
Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matth...
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Categories:
leiper, absence, anger, atheist, courage,
Form: Free verse
Autumnal Equinox 2020 Tuesday September 22
...Autumnal equinox 2020 - Tuesday, September 22
(at 9:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time)
Empyrean découpage citadel
betokens (bespeaks) autumnal arrival
nine thirty one ante meridian
chariot of fire e...
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Categories:
leiper, appreciation, autumn, color, dance,
Form: Free verse
Memory Houses Soul Asylum Vestige
...Memory houses soul asylum vestige...
where complex edifice once anchoring
venerated Glen Elm demesne once stood,
now nothing except vinyl city!
I recall breathtaking, expansive, incredible
num...
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Categories:
leiper, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
Circa February 28th 1968 the Former Leiper Estate
...Circa February 28th, 1968 - The Former Leiper Estate
Soon after our family settled
into the sprawling estate
named "Glen Elm" approximate
half century old from date
mentioned in title, said tr...
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Categories:
leiper, 2nd grade, anniversary, dad,
Form: Free verse
Death Friended Me On Facebook
...(while trapped in Pottstown
Memorial Hospital parking lot).
My humble apology to those,
who posted uber up lyft ting messages
to this Macbook Pro Facebook keeper,
without said scrivener swift...
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Categories:
leiper, death, destiny, goodbye, natural
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Well Runs Dry
...Couched in the
concept of a well,
(which supplied the water
for faded glory of "Glen Elm),"
my boyhood abode,
another metaphorical attempt
at writer's block - aid,
...
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Categories:
leiper, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric