Long Birthday gift Poems

When a poet dates a poetess;
They all go insane of words to use,
They may have no time to make love.
Poet here, poetess there, back to back
Without anyone believing each other.
Dinning is personified and oxymorously planned;
The...

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"Be one to understand this, it cannot be by gist alone, for it starts through many doors via the following poems/stories, be what may will be your choice. Start, end, middle, or what draws you,...

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My birthday gift, to me.
In prose 
   This night of November 27th , in our year of the lord, two thousand and one I decided to treat myself to a living birthday present,...

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With my first soulful breath,
it was Mother’s eyes I saw.
She counted my tiny fingers and toes,
leaned gently to kiss my brow.
Announcements sent out right away,
my name chosen so carefully.
The name, I think, a famous General’s...

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Mother died
the day you were born
With tears of joy 
in her eyes,
her last breath was womb torn
A forty year journey    ending prematurely

Your first breaths of life,
tiny infant cries,
were swaddled in innocence
Yet to...

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I invited my oldest daughter to dinner for her half birthday.
It was highly embarrassing when she wrestled me to
The ground for the check, and I landed in some guy’s lap.
Sorry, I said. “This is my...

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A queen was spinning flax one day.
She gave her loom a jerk.
(Don’t ask what “flax” or “looms” might be,
or why a queen must work).

She pricked her finger (careful, now!)
yet Sigmund Freud would say
these children’s tales...

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The Clanking Chain of Wild Geese


I was watching the September sky every day,
With a hope to once again get a glance,
Of the clanking chains of those lovely wild geese,
That suddenly appears with their music melodies,
But...

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With my names as genocide
and birthday a loveless weapon
who do you think i am?

never in world history 
has half the planet looked upon one person
and asked
is that the antichrist?

seems obvious to me

at war with the...

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Call Of An Unborn Daughter To Dad

Dad I am your guiltless 
and innocent unborn daughter
who is anxious to step in your house
will you please give birth to your daughter

Will you be happy on my arrival
probably...

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‘Cream Puff’ you were my faithful companion for many years
I recall you were a birthday gift from an old school friend 
And I adored you from the moment I held you in my hands
As a...

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January 13th, 2023

After wishing upon a star
to garner a handsome windfall
as a positive fated birthday gift
lo and behold, these ears didn't deceive me,
cuz I discerned a partial telephone message
hinting at word winnings to good to...

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Track One, Side Two
                          by Odin Roark

It was time.
He knew...

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A birthday gift to me 
courtesy thee youngest sister of mine

The special parcel
courtesy Amazon courier
hurriedly delivered softbound book before
yours truly could thank him/her cuz he/she
dropped off outside our apartment door,
upon opening the well sealed package
my...

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RED States/Blue States
Finances: RED or Black?
Cincinnati REDS
Boston RED Socks
Chicago White Socks
Detroit RED Wings
RED Blood Cells
White Blood Cells
RED Tape
RED Cars
RED Socks

I have stories of two friends who loaned me their
RED Car in the early 70s. One...

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Wishing you lots of birthday fun 
And happiness till the day is done 

I couldnt find a gift honestly 
And since you really like poetries
Here i write to
Convey my wishes

Years passed laughing
Months went by hard...

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This past year has come to an end, and it has flown so fast,
A time to sop and reflect on adventures past.

January
In January, we had lots and lots of snow,
We produced some ice sculptures, carefully...

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April was the name my mother gave me
She cried and cried for days when I was born
My dad was pretty sick, he never knew me
The World was in the eye of that ol’ storm

They tell...

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What I'd like to give you, is an ounce of my perfume
Sharing like we use too, we never took or did presume.
Sisters growing together, our bond very tight,
Though when little children, had the odd minor...

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My husband... has never minded
    eating a vegetable he doesn't like
        just so they will eat theirs...

Or eating half smashed, soggy potato chips
  ...

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                   Twas the night before Christmas to remind Dad,
        ...

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All of the wrongs we have done to each other,
We will overlook...
W's lawsuit against my church, because they will not permit him to smoke there,
My interminable and intolerable lateness,
J's calling me, 'pathetic',
MY frustration with W's...

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The love me and you shared expired years ago
The many times I spent attempting to love you
Didn't really mean anything to you so my love we are through
Just like a plague you destroy everything you...

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“Under the vast tamarind tree, 
somewhere  in it’s dark recess,
you will find the gold chain,
i have lost, mother! yesterday,
when we boys were running,
while at play! I should 
have been more careful,
I see it now,...

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Dragon ran excitedly, into my family room.
He’d been out all day, doing what was anyone’s guess.
He claimed he needed money, a thousand dollar loan;
It was for my birthday gift; or so that’s what he stressed.

“That’s...

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