Long Florida keys Poems

There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
    till Death its message sends.
They built a...

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Were going to the Florida Keys! Were going to Florida Keys!
As I mentioned we were on our way to the Florida Keys... 
it was my mother, father, my sisters and me the brother of the...

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Just a Thought......20 below can be a temp......20 below can also " tempt"

Sometimes we have a life long dream...

but not sure where to start....

and sometimes we must go to the extreme..

with a thought that's not...

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My father hauled a dead sea turtle
     from a beach in the Florida Keys
          he coveted that shell.

I was not allowed to...

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The guy she hired to do me in,
unbeknownst to her,
was one of the blokes on Friday nights
with whom I played poker.

All this time she thought I lied
and was having a sordid affair,
because I didn’t tell...

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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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Our destination is an island out there
In an ocean of blue with sands so fair
It has everything you would want on a paradise isle
Scenery so beautiful you can't help but smile

We set of from the...

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No litter, no rules, no society scent,
just peninsula pure soul content, ideally lent.
Awed and wowed with arms stretched wide,
I stand on Key’s narrow road, on narrow land,
surrounded by two sea gems and their sand. 

This...

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A small childish event
slips through an unguarded moment once more,
then a teenage grudge nudges my ego
demanding some resolution.

Big Foot is tearing up the woods.
The interstellar aliens want us all to relax,
to be a be-ing –...

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A Native of Florida's Reefs

I am the native of the Florida Keys and Bahamas
People here call me mero and not goliath grouper
Once a scuba diver caught and held me beside the boat	
Half out of water...

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The wind was blowing when she left the city...

I believe it was twenty below...

Where she was going she already knew...

But... first she had things she had to do...

Get rid of the body that was clear....

There...

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Florida Nature

It was recently that I departed from the noise and same routine,
Our ancestors beckoned me – to visions they had seen.

I found myself surrounded by the untouched Everglades.
My mind was racing fast – I...

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For years this ship has been sailing the seas
From the beaches of Hawaii to the Florida Keys
With no land in sight and no view of atolls
The ship was used to pitches, yaws and rolls

Alas, land...

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It was in the beautifully majestic Florida Keys
Where I visited with my beloved grand-mother
She introduced me to the frangipani with its luscious clusters  
The fragrance was bewitchingly inebriating
Soon I couldn’t distinguish the petals from...

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Poseidon blew up a hurricane without any pause
He loved the conflict and the worry it caused
Hoping to cause a Tsunami in the Florida Keys
Stop it! The other gods begged, “Stop it Please!”

Poseidon was a god...

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At the Florida Keys you come as you are  
Rico And Trump are sitting at the bar 
heres some huchicoochi  
virus free hubaloochi 
Rico says  " better not I'm driving my car"...

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Flutes, ahead laying the routes
Oboes they off to Villalobos
Harps, dusting off vessel tarps
Violin silenced by engine din
Cello, matching the revving bellow
Piano sad in the canoe
Clarinets are taking private jets
Horns, fasten seatbelts the Captain warns
Cymbal off...

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