Long Folding chair Poems

One warm Summer’s day
As I sat in my folding chair
Something caught my eyey
Something there
Something flying through the air
It was a butterfly
It did flitter and flutter by

When it decided to land
It landed on my left hand
I...

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There is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun, 
barred by spindle trees and the last 
of summer's brindled reeds 
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
 
Damp leaves hide...

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I went fishing with my brother Ron, and a bloke named Tommy Grace.
We had camped along the Tarago where we could fish on Harvey's place.
Ron brought along his rabbit traps; he don't like fishing much...

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The priest had been here earlier and the rosary was said
and relatives and friends in single file were offering condolences.
"Sorry for your troubles," one by one they said, 
bending over Maggie Murphy, silent in her...

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Tuck into the public
private seclusion.

My aversion to inclusion
includes a stub, a tub,
a carelessly careful curation,
a velvet rope, a hint of hope,
a folding chair, softened and stickied 
by foam and frothing soda spills.

A not soundless though...

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Who would believe an old hat could change the lives of so many people. 

Outside the coffee shop I frequent sits a homeless man with a sign like we see in so many cities asking...

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It was slightly overcast, that day in April.  The crowd was cheering.  They always 
cheered for him.  He was over age, over the hill, and over indulged.  But, god how 
he...

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Frigoris Sereni verses Crisium Lu Atis
both combatants were hyped up
and the crowd seemed to be in it.
to the surprise of the regional promoters
who put these talents on exhibition to
show the Big City Promoters
who were on...

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" SuperFine" Borrow Quarrious made his debut in a bout against his former tag team partner  "Honey Mambo" Yurts Kussinov. The bout ended when there former manager Caul Fennish interfered using a folding chair...

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Lynn was swimming alone that morning in the warm pool,
the August sun sizzled on the ceramic tiles;
what a relief was the breeze from the palm trees...
she loved to read curled up in a beach chair,...

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Missirio Mannex Milton
     " the best ever"
                 And
"The FargoCity Groove"
  Stamble Prancer
  ...

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While Up And Adrift In Cloud 9...

Reprieve from damp,
     and rainy, or sultry weather,
     I schlepped a
     light weight Shaker
made folding chair
 ...

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I pack the backpack
then empty it
count again what I need,
discard the unlikely,
the unnecessary accessory.

I pack the backpack
shoulder it,
adjust the straps
remember to add a useful thing,
unpack and repack,
try to balance the weight,
smooth the angular,
tighten the loose.
Once...

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I pack the backpack
then empty it
count again what I need,
discard the unlikely,
the unnecessary accessory.

I pack the backpack
shoulder it,
adjust the straps
remember to add a useful thing,
unpack and repack,
try to balance the weight,
smooth the angular,
tighten the loose.
Once...

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The urge to travel
rises when least expected,
without reason or warning.

Unsettled, is how I describe
my feelings as it develops,
like an autumn storm beginning with clouds.

The day arrives
and I leave the homestead,
disrupting my structured life.

Normal routines give...

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Today I found out,
That the Doctor wants to see me...
Something in my bloodwork,
No surprise to me...

A 6 month life sentence to live,
Not a surprise to me,
Livin' all the time,
In awful agony..

No one can understand
How this...

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Watching from the grassy lawn
Sitting in his folding chair.
With his veteran’s cap upon 
Taking in the whole affair.

Sits a man of many decades
Hair of white and skin that’s weathered.
Uniform adorned with braid
Medals on his chest...

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It will be alright 
It was peace in the valley a deep harmony of those who fled 
to the countryside to avoid the foul air of humanity this lair  
called community had fouled its...

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A noise startled her, and thinking of cats, she didn't bother to look;
it turned into a groan, a scratching noise, a squirrel loud munching.
She ran to the kitchen and jumped on a high chair holding...

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Weekend in Cascais
On Cascais glittering Saturday bay, slowly rides a rust stripped
bulk-carrier, sailors on the deck look at the town and think it
is Paradise, from the soot hallooed green stacks, whispering
smoke dissolves their dream of...

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Alright then

It was peace in the valley, a deep harmony of those
who had fled the air of a town´s inequity?
Then there was an avalanche of thoughts which caused confusion 
when it settled, a gramophone voice...

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Me sitting on a folding chair
Maria lent us for the initial days
In the middle of an empty room
Next to a computer on a small folding table 
Billy, our cat, fearfully inching between the lanai door
Looking...

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They did mock us ...did they not?...the mockingbirds?
I say they did!...innuendo infuse...as pellucid as she...they mocked us!
...gossiped luridly about us in luscious low tones like the old hen in her 
folding chair...nothing better to do...

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Standing on the razors edge
Between darkness and light

Sitting in a folding chair
On the left side of right

Waving in the direction 
Of hello and goodbye

Twisted in between the scene 
Of I will and might

Climbing on the...

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'nother heartbreak
sorry
I'm all red flags
and warning labels
 ...yet she tried
not all my fault
but it's a pattern

I think I might 
until I know I don't
some brutal honesty
I squirm free of the noose
and put 500 miles 
between...

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