Long Corsage Poems

Paddy didn't want to go to his wife's family reunion. He told her that in the same nice way he had told her in years past so as to avoid other reunions over the many...

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Temptation
Verse 1:
Satan, the world’s best liar and ultimate deceiver
He poisons the minds of all mankind and all of us fellow believers
His words are sharp like knives and dangerous as the sharpest cleaver
We try to run...

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I hadn’t seen her in over twenty years,
but I knew her face on sight;
I should have asked her to the senior prom - 
instead, we both stayed home that night.

High school friends who never went...

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November air pours in from the dark island night
Through our Caribbean windows, 
A sea salt breeze, an exhale, white cushioned wicker chairs
Window slats turned out 
And I turned in, a white nightgown
A full breath in...

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If you and your friends pitch in together, you can arrive in a limo at the entrance of your senior prom.
Makes an entrance a little bit more formal.
Prom is a dance where you dress in...

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1. Kelly Lune:
silk rose under dome
opaque glass
thwarted love preserved


2. Jack Collom Lune:
the faded corsage
under a dusty glass dome—
missed spring ball

NOT FOR CONTEST
POET'S NOTES
The lune (aka American haiku) created by New York-based poet Robert Kelly (1935–)...

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My Right Hand Holds Your Left I HOLD YOU AS WE WALK 


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She won't laugh anymore,
she won't smile anymore,
she won't talk anymore,
she won't love anymore,
she won't care anymore.
She doesn't laugh anymore,
nor does she smile and talk
and love anymore...

She still is beautiful though,
like my own portrait lady,
hung on...

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In days of old,                                                               ...

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What made you so special my freckle faced friend..
the day I heard you singing to a record, from your window next door.
Bell bottom clad teenaged knock out, with a ballerina's step..    ...

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Sophie gained a MSci degree from London University,
In 2011, when she was 23, and was born prematurely,
So her Cerebral Palsy meant that post operation rehab,
Came thru the Riding for the Disabled Association, fab. 

She loved...

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Life, death, wedding, miracles

she was not cancer, she’d not enchanted death.
she’d still smile - with loose teeth, with clinging roots.
dreamy-eyed, a wedding to plan, mind engaged.
a forthright goal despite the odds, felicitous.

dress wrapped around her...

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She sits on the porch in a cool desert night
A bobcat stalks prey in the day's fading light
The moon looks like a big orange in the blue
Evoking old memories she thought she outgrew

Memories of nights...

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Sitting in the classroom at the beginning of the school year
Worrying about how school will be for me as I sat filled with fear
Johnny, Sue and Cindy walking in with smiles, with no cares
Then you...

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On The Suicide Of Dorothy Hale

Known for her self portraits and her politics
Her famous unibrow and her elaborate dress
And for twice marrying Mexico's most renown muralist
Her paintings which bore her pain were well received
And to...

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It was my twentyfifth wedding anniversary, I wanted to look beautiful
after twenty five  years of wedding bliss  two kids and a life of plentiful  
I wanted to give thanks to God for...

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Anti-Poem – “Prom Night At LAX 1973”

(Poet’s Instruction: Before reading this anti-poem, kindly go to YouTube and play Muzak: “Stimulus Progression.” Music can also be heard at my Facebook page under Stark Hunter. If possible,...

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It was the last year of high school and there was a lack of beaux,
But then I got an invite. Whew, that was close!
So now the Prom was coming and I was going to go!
Mom...

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"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled
because you knew"  Shakespeare
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After the prom my date took me to a diner,
we were still wearing our formal wear;
oh, I felt so grown up...

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Written: July 10, 2023
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The rain poured, a symphony of tears.
Washing away all the pain of yesterday.
Each droplet is a harbinger of hope and appears
As it danced upon the windowpane and sway.

Every storm is followed by...

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I’m bloom to consume more than a few words on this paper to presume/
I pick to pitter patter playing on a plum/
Planning a ploy on a punk as I’m plotting a plan for the plot/
In...

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Last night I closed my eyes and I began to dream. I had on the most elegant gown and you were staring at me. You were clear across the ballroom and our hearts locked instantaneously....

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The Senior Prom was the social event of the school year!
I approached the occasion with great humility and fear.
Never knowing if I could get a date caused me apprehension,
But finding someone to go greatly eased...

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He held the child for the first time
Such a fragile gift , he felt unworthy
As he watched her drift off to dream her first dream, 
he wondered  about the life awaiting her.
And he wept

She...

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Piles upon piles of dust and mold
Gather in a large closet up in the attic,
Where junk of memorabilia resides
Untouched for years   as I scan the heap
Of treasures accumulated: a prom's corsage
At 17, shelves...

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