Summer Nights
...I recount the nights of faint, distant glows —
the dimmed party lights of summer —
of silenced streaks of fleeing light, tassels of clouds
adorned in fleeting whites,
on the broad balcony of the ...
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Categories:
liquors, night, summer,
Form: Free verse
Brother
...Brother oh brother
Where have you gone
I have loved you
For so very long
Your dreams and
Life have eaten you
Mind and Body ghostly
Haven’t a clue
There is no hope
For your return
Liquor...
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Categories:
liquors, allusion,
Form: Free verse
juniper berries
...Juniper berries are a brilliant bright blue,
Prettier, not as dark as blueberry’s hue
While growing, prefer warm sunny spaces
Live on several continents, many good places
Add flavor to liquors ...
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Categories:
liquors, food,
Form: Rhyme
Preferences Pedestrian
...A faded white shirt
accents his rumpled brown suit
He takes his place unobtrusively
sits content, quietly
His preferences pedestrian
narrowly bourgeoisie
Guests sample exoti...
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Categories:
liquors, character, fashion, food, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
All Kinds of Fake Party Smiles
...I am living my dream she said
Lying to preserve her dignity
I love my life, he told me.
I knew he must be joking becaise I knew his wife.
My husband's office Christmas party was just getting ...
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Categories:
liquors, life,
Form: Free verse
Haeccity Heard
...Hastily stretched, crackled urgent ocean edge relents
Ashamed attempt to escape rejoins campaign of mass
Furtive dig below propels conspirator spasm, next next
Murders brash bouys, cranky spa cham...
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Categories:
liquors, analogy, beauty, change, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Frilly Knickers
...Are you missing frilly knickers
Trimmed with lace for city slickers?
Japan's panty line
Will lead to a shrine*
Blessed with love and local liquors!
*Everywhere we lived, my wife's
fril...
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Categories:
liquors, humor, women,
Form: Limerick
Pant a Loon
...What women stuff in their knickers
Would scare the Hell out of vicars
But girls must know
Win, Place, and Show
The Best of Blue Ribbon liquors...
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Categories:
liquors, word play,
Form: Limerick
Frenemy
...‘Tis a tingle at the tips of thy lips where I shall plant a kiss,_
then slightly lick the curves and slopes of their mounds to partake _
of the taste of treachery that lingers with thee still.
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Categories:
liquors, bereavement, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Dog Scrap
...My dog is named Scrap
He drank beer on tap
Slurped, burped, fell over and napped
No fault of my own but I took the rap.
The bar tab was forty bucks plus a tip
Appetizing jerky tips, and some ...
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Categories:
liquors, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Roaring Twenties
...Roaring Twenties
Nostalgia and age like bacon and eggs,
With buttered toast and jam on the side for breakfast;
And coffee, and a glass of orange juice to drink,
And a memory in-between t...
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Categories:
liquors, america, culture, education, history,
Form: Verse
Mother
...When the rose bud died you came out
More beautiful than where you originate
Your golden heart loves with no doubt
And your untainted mind doesn't complicate.
Your nature steers my imprudent cou...
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Categories:
liquors, emotions, first love, for
Form: Rhyme
Philosophizing
...Straitened are the times
And tight is my pocket.
A glass of brandy
Consumed with contemplation
Is hard to bargain
As speculators have poured in
Shouting ‘buy’, ‘buy’, ‘buy’.
Since out is th...
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Categories:
liquors, humor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Donald Trump
...Trump moaned 'bout the curse of hard liquors
Was greeted by just childish snickers
Whilst spouting his lies
Left open his flies
And flashed the 'Fake News' his pink knickers
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Categories:
liquors, funny, humorous, political, power,
Form: Limerick
The Last Dawn
...Gone has God, the mirth as well, love’s sweet liquors
never tell; sun kissed earth, the hope for all, the
raven’s sigh at coming squall
Take the heart so pounded thus, darkened ardor, sour
do...
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Categories:
liquors, angst,
Form: Romanticism
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