Long Breakfasts Poems

Aah Summer time. The house 
Was quiet. Dolly and Molly were 
The only ones awake and already 
Showered and dressed. Dolly said. 
"Woo I am ready for whatever."
Molly agreed saying, "Yeah, 
Sister girl what are...

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They’re drawing the curtains in Dorking,
Lighting the candles and pouring the lotions.
Switching off TV’s and shelving resentments,
Checking on children asleep in the darkness,
Creeping   up hallways   like teenage lovers.
Stairs and hopes creaking...

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...He left here there, and she had a stunned look,
so did the first responders standing by,
no one had ever heard Dan talk that much,
much less express the feelings deep inside.

Needless to say, Tanya caught lots...

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A malicious Ransomware is going around squeezing the life out of the town . A malicious Ransomware is going around tearing the covering off the roofs, beating down the doors and shaking the leaves off...

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The Art of Being Empty 
I was baptized in the TV light of The Biggest Loser  
and worshipped a version of myself that I believed 
could go forty days without eating, like Jesus. 
...

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I was born and raised in my house, which isn’t home.
At heart, I am from the orange brick house in Westridge Farms
Where I never even lived
There, the pawprints I stamped on the driveway may have...

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(Written in response to the poem “Black and White.”)


Over age 40? Here’s some truth from the new generation.


Don’t get me wrong,
I love those old shows.
Classics for long 
All that and more. 
But if I may...

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When tons of doom filled nights fall upon your head,
embers glow fierce and fires burn unabated.
Recalling her last breath and wish you were dead
in poem's last line, you've been beat and castrated.
From the heavens, a...

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It was the Eve before Christmas, every tree covered in snow,
Bonnie was walking Plato her poodle, conscious to keep to the road,
As she nonchalantly walked, she thought of Derrick her Danish beau,
He was the one...

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When tons of doom filled nights fall on your head,
hot embers glow and fires burn unabated,
you recall her last breath and wish you were dead.
In a poem's sad lines you've been castrated.
From the heavens a...

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So Much To Say


”Here’s your oatmeal and blueberries for breakfast,” I said 
     putting on a smile.
She said, “Could you adjust my pillows?
     “Of course honey, “...

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.  So Much to Say
”Here’s your oatmeal and blueberries
      for breakfast,” I said. putting on a smile.
She said, “Could you adjust my pillows?
     “Of course...

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We don’t talk no more
Were not friends
And you don’t want me
Not in this life or the next
Say I’m to butch for you
I don’t see how
When I do all the things you like
You use to call...

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>This is a poem I wrote on my daughter’s Facebook page in November 2015.  I had just been discharged from Ipswich Hospital after an operation on my back.  Movement was nigh impossible, but...

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Skyscrapers, our societies pyramids
Built with a work force in need of these jobs
But these meaningless buildings are made for the boss,
Where the only way to lift your spirits is to take the elevator
To your top...

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For 47 years and 2 weeks
He was there by my side
Then the sad day came
When he up and died.

On my way home he was there
And as I turned onto the road to home
Garth Brooks began...

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Remember the children’s book,
“Alexander and the Terrible, 
Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”? 
Well, yesterday was mine.
Started off okay, got up late,
Got our breakfasts, dressed, made the beds.
Cleaned the cat litter
And found that SweetiePie, 21...

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Didactic Food

I'm a hard  core foodie!
Come what may,
Down it goes my gullet!
Oh no! I don't gormandize,
It's just that-
Well, you may say-
My eyes can't stop feasting
And my right hand is not 
In control of the...

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The Valentine dress
A shock and surprise full of red and blue
coming from a heart, mine is devoted to
and from a hand I so value as my cute protection.
It is colourful, fitting and above all an...

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Back in my mind a vision I see
Of the loving person who took care of me
When I would fall and scrape my knee
Her hugs would make the booboo's flee

There was a time I scrapped my...

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Collision courses and cosmic cloud claps are most important when arriving in seas of vast colour. When a 4 inch diameter of a pickled egg is neither oval or flat it us times for the...

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Collision courses and cosmic cloud claps are most important when arriving in seas of vast colour. When a 4 inch diameter of a pickled egg is neither oval or flat it us times for the...

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I imagine when you first see it…all you see an old cast-iron pan…you don’t see where it’s been…you only notice the outside…not the history within.

But every time we use it…we handle it affectionately…because when we...

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Oh, my heart will always be
At a cottage by the sea
Me and Michael, mom and dad
What memories did my family had
Lobsters clams and knotty pine
Shore dinners with the neighbors we did dine
Peanut butter sandwiches on...

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Home sweet home, Africa my mother's land
Where mornings arise with beautiful sounds of joyful birds
Giving thanks to the one who gave them life.

A peaceful yet chaotic place where souls find comfort in discomfort
Cherished by the...

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