Name Light Verse Poems

When I paint I will listen to my friends via the phone line.
I put them on speaker.
I rarely ever call them any other time.
Unless I...

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Holy-Wholly 
His omnipotent eyes looking
Seeing Daddy God ever watching over you
Prayer: Father we thank you for your mercies and grace
That’s brought us to this new...

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Great Aunt Rosa knits and crochets,
but lately it's gotten carried away.
bigger and better she'll delightfully say,
while the rest of the family is left in dismay.

It's...

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Some of my poems are truly inane.
Screeching, preaching, a run away train..
Impulsive poetry is to blame.
It's just my style. I'll sign my name.
It's never racist.
It...

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The thing about Mary that was extraordinary 
Was her parents on her pulled a fast one.
They gave her a first name, multiplied it by two,
But...

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The llama has a name that everybody mispronounces.
"The double 'll', it sounds like 'y'," he patiently announces.
"The single 'l', it sounds like 'l'," proceeds his...

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Giovanni didn't trust Michelangelo,
He'd heard that for guys he was hot.
But for minimum pay of a florin* a day,
He was willing to give it a...

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It’s every farm-fed turkey’s yearly dread –
an ungobbeble holocaust, it’s said
when every steroid injected turkey breast
inflates to unnaturally grotesque.
And, please, don’t mention Lincoln’s name,
to every...

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I rummage through a box
of old photographs. A lady’s image
holds my eye: I hold her up to 
light filtering through a dingy window.

The edges are...

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Chef Frog was askance
Someone had asked for legs!
He was a chef who usually did what the customer wanted
But this was outrageous, even in Winipegs!

He demanded...

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Mirth-filled, children converse boisterously
Presenting their future jobs jovially
As the best and greatest, well-said pridefully
Midst innocence, sans ignorance of witty perspective cheerfully.

Child A: I’ll be an...

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Dawn again,
novel day of the century...
I await your return
for over a millennium...
I squeeze the longing in my chest,
my intimate decomposes
the soul thinks
my heart drowns me...
food...

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A gravestone is the last 
official document a person 
will attach his name to. 
And though it takes place 
after the fact, it still has...

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Of course your name is Joseph I told the sheep.
He had not read the Bible.
He did not understand the humor in this.
Because your robe is...

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