Long Cockeyed Poems

Lucky and Blue, were my babies. Lucky was a big black mountain dog.
Blue was a husky, with a curly tail and one light blue eye, the other brown.
They were with me for ten and twelve...

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Twinkly bunch with loaded school bags
Ambition injustice and itching their backs,
Cunning those faces in front of the gate
Heedful pupils well-chosen apparently late.  
A fistful primary breeziness
Shared with smiles, tears and silliness,
Together they brawled, together...

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Where are my shoes? I can't find my shoes!
 Where have I put them? They're impossible to lose!
  OMG, I'm ashamed! This is awful! Don't tell anyone the news!
   --Whew! Now take...

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It has stood for decades along the county gravel road.
Skittering mice and barn owls now call it their abode.

What was once a stately building is now a shambles,
Surrounded by barren fields and prickly brambles.

Where once...

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Once referred to as meaningless blather
Much of communication these days falters
In fact, putting the truth in a precarious bind,
We obfuscate, equivocate; often, lying at altars.

Much of communication these days falters
Why can’t we all simply say...

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It continues to befuddle my inquisitive mind
why many of you have attacked and maligned
vaccines, and have decided to become aligned
with other naysayers. Are you physically blind?

It's not amusing when false dogma spreads terror
Your claims are...

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Pondering past midnight I rest unsure
If my thoughts and rhymes would be a cure
I seem to have displaced my pen and papers
Don’t’ have a thick candle, only tapers 
A famous poet is my envision
I have...

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We are born in the same way,
Then why this disparity?
Race, sex, caste - stop such melee,
Spread love, peace and charity,

I have red blood, so do you,
Then aren't we equal, brother?
Give respect where it is due,
Let...

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The clever current galaxy is cock-eyed, surreal, and night is day.
2020 has been weirder than weird, almost everyone has had to pay.
If the internet went out forever, I would not greet it with surprise.
We are...

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What???...

To get someone to read my poems… Contests there must be.
They must be bleeping nuts thinking I can follow all those cockeyed rules.
Out of a zillion types of poems they always pick the weirdest ones.
Allowed...

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Guess it was ‘bout mid-December
And a winter storm was howlin’—
Was roundin’ up strays I remember
And my belly start to growlin’.
I come upon an ol’ ghost town
I’d rode through many times now past—
There were some ol’...

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we have a clock up on the mantel
it's right just twice each day
but, when you get to my age
i guess that it's ok
i don't need clocks to keep in time
my body works for me
i don't...

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It's cold here.

It was cold long before
Winter arrived
harsh frigid stares
as people passed by
subtle cues
to warn us off
send us packing
"This is not your neighborhood-
you are not welcome here."
their unspoken message
loud and clear

It's cold here.

Winds of change
blew...

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Didn’t digest my all-dressed pizza
Suffering now from insomnia
A touch of every possible phobia
Mostly of ravenous bacteria 
And humongous tarantula
O yes, and the sordid mafia
Did I call my Grandmamma
Did I put away the spatula
Did I book...

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I broke my ankle and my foot,
On a ski trip that we took.

My boot was loose it flew off,
Landing me in a pile of fluff.

I looked down and my foot was cockeyed,
The pain so intense...

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Come on down to Inclusive Town
We will throw you in by your knee or chin
Come on my friend, and you all are
Matter of fact, 
Become our holiday star

Rappers, scrappers, mappers too
You are all welcome
Yes!
I do
Mean
YOU!

Come...

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Cockeyed Weathervane

Whizzing along on an old time train,
I looked out the window at a cockeyed weathervane.
The engineer saw it, too, stepped on the whoo whoo!
To call our attention to this historical hen aroo.


Seems of all...

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7/17/15


In a wierd place
for a year straight

Looking up watching the hawks fly
While being walked by
Regardless of if the plants and terrain got dry
The position remained the same beside a drain, and was always cockeyed
 
Easily...

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Life's tides can either be a good or bad ride. Good if you 
Coincide, take it in stride. 

Bad if you have too much pride or try to hide, you'll be in for a fough...

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The Mariner's old salted-air skin,  leather tight,
on a mast-hard frame of bones
and flash flood rushing blood,
faces ice-fed winds bouncing his ship
and helm cockeyed on continuous curling waves
from Nature's rough hewn seas,
beneath skunk-colored skies

Standing redwood...

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It's hard to maintain a strong democracy
when people elect a kakistocracy.
To those who believe in "America First":
your government now consists of the worst.

The POTUS must be cruel and cockeyed
choosing a cabinet of the least-qualified.
Only someone...

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My wife came here in 1993
  To America, ‘Land of the Free’
From a place of dictatorial tyranny
  of greased palms and ‘yours for a fee’

The America she came to was a breath of...

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Sweet Becca Lucas told me recently 
My silliness makes her roar
Confided though, if given the choice
Prefers my serious poems more

My comfort zone has always been humour
Find humour in almost all things
A cockeyed look at this...

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Opinions are like rectums, everyone
Has one. Sadly, blockheads have them also.
It’s what comes out: profundity or thrummed
Beliefs that make all the difference. Know
The truth and what’s not before you accept
A single one. Beware of those...

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This girl sent me her picture, one of pulchritude defined;
if it's her, she has charisma, or could she be a bore?
She wrote me this poem about a man she could adore.
The discomfort I am sensing...

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