Severe Weather Warnings
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Long-range forecasts
predict outbreaks of pretty weather girls.
In the event of short-range predictions,
some ugly guy may be substituted.
In the case of an emergency,
mice may seek the shelte...
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Categories:
long range, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Some Favorite Things
..."Never have 'Favorite People,'" is Number One!
They are the Alpha of Creation and a lot of fun.
However, here are some Things, dear souls:
Short, medium and long-range Goals
Reached, celebrated a...
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Categories:
long range, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Aghast
...I can see the morning racing down the street with a whip circling around its feet and the traffic moving slowly tending to something that is holy.
I wasn’t sure if everyone sees what I see but the...
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Categories:
long range, absence, america, appreciation, change,
Form: Narrative
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two
...n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement....
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Categories:
long range, character, dark, death, emotions,
Form: Prose
Revisiting the Rock
...I have always felt myself extremely blessed to have found myself a wife
who believes very little is needed to make a happy life.
Before you think she doesn’t mean it, that it’s just idle talk
sh...
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Categories:
long range, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Last Act
...I loved her sorrows.
We shared a mask
that we spoke through -
a mail-box for wordless hungers.
Passion maimed us,
even I shed tears sensing
a Puccini last act.
She read herself in my face;...
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Categories:
long range, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An Ocean of Print
...A view of the ocean of print
On the night sky over Australia, among thousands of stars
the dog of hell appeared, killing the Aboriginal men
but a woman of the tribe slaughtered the dog, the men
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Categories:
long range, absence, abuse, arabic, break
Form: Blank verse
Heavyweights
...I am just dragging around the town carrying this heavy weight in my body when my normal weight is a hundred and ten pounds and that’s the weight that will take me to where destiny is bound.
I a...
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Categories:
long range, community, courage, environment, first
Form: Prose
Ode To the End of War
...Sharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No flag of truce waved, or fri...
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Categories:
long range, friendship, war,
Form: Epic
One Act Opera
...I fell in love with her sorrows.
We shared a mail-box for wordless hungers.
Passion maimed us,
even I shed tears, sensing
a Puccini last act approaching.
She read herself in my face.
I gave h...
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Categories:
long range, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Basketball
...A good player in six feet tall
So expert to catch and dribble
Before shooting smartly that ball
A good player in six feet tall
For long range throws he’ll get them all
Earning points- tr...
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Categories:
long range, sports,
Form: Verse
Singing Memories My Annual Birthday Poem
...*** SINGING MEMORIES ***
“Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Hard times, come again no more.” **
A memory came flying through to me this afternoon
— a fine memory, not recently...
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Categories:
long range, friendship, guitar, imagery, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Long Range Christmas
...is terrible
rich
sucker
got a Merry Christmas early this morning
anxiety free
lucky
relaxed
hungry
got i'm a dog early
tell you something
see
dirty
tell us
that's us
explain
spr...
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Categories:
long range, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Their Secret
...People often ask the old couple, who’ve been married for so long,
What’s the secret to your marriage…the key that’s made it last so long?
The couple look at one another…then with a gleam reflect...
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Categories:
long range, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of a Shady Past
...An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement...
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Categories:
long range, art, birth, character, courage,
Form: Prose
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