Long Frizzle Poems

Walking to the camp
With only a spark in my lamp,
We’re here for a night of fun 
But all I want to do is run,
My friends follow me
Holding back shyly 

First to camp
We sat down the...

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Jewels of Africa.

The saffron Queen spins the lilac sky,
her rays flick crimson cinders into Royal Blue Oceans.
Submerge, sizzle, frizzle...going, going, gone! ...But Not.
Cumulus clouds drizzle pepper fog over pink Flamingos, homeward bound.

Tea-green Botswana bush,
teeny, tiny...

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I am not the spectacles on my face
I am the spectacular light that leads my foot forward in the darkest days

I am not the colour of my skin
I am the rainbow on a rainy day...

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FOR A MOMENT
Your cry isn’t loud enough for the world to hear
So wipe your tears.
Even your so called ‘friends and companions’ are turning deaf ears 
Wipe your tears and look up to the hills, from...

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I could make ring bells from seashells found on seashores
go into retail where these bells get sold on shop floors 
and tell thee tales of Seabells see sales win awards
if Seabells received well we could...

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What is the point of a gnat
Can anyone answer me that
They get in your bedroom at night
and frizzle themselves on the light

What is the point of a slug
A slimey old no-legged bug
They eat all your...

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In my early teens (late 60's)
I remember it all
began
in my mind

Dad was driving us into
downtown Minneapolis
for church I think,

up ahead, a block or so,
the bob-lights on top of
2 cop cars was twirlin'
and  speakers were...

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Out there, seemingly everywhere await mountains upon mountains to be conquered
Some of us choose to plunge ahead while many are deterred

What is this fear and apprehension that pervades our bodies?
What is the curiosity and desire...

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he might have been a felon, a freak, a frizzle wiper or a fraud.
we did not know him actually said speaker, young judgmental Maude.
he had a look about him that made me clutch my purse.
she...

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Razzle dazzle us with honey suckle flowers sweet sweet summer 
and bring us  butterflies of spring, on your shiny golden hummer  
Let the golden sun kiss the earth and let the wild birds...

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If I Were
IF I WERE

IF I were the clouds,
I would rain love on your heart's garden
I would rain and even rain snow
I would make your heart icy
So that when it condenses,
pure water of love would...

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She looks through the lens,
a Baltimore Oriole
had just flared into orange sherbet,
but now there was her wide-eyed grin
filling every space left over.

Once as a young man, I dated
a sweet girl. 
I called her my ‘yellow...

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Thank you god for the best showers!! 
The rains… the divine showers.!
In the rains,
I find new ways,
In the beautiful terrains,
I find times to sway.
The showers of rain,
washes all the anger and pains,
each drop of dew,
That...

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A former place this, a patch where roots rattle,
where stubble has a ferrous frizzle.
A long truncated railroad stop
humming still within a surrogate reality.
As dry voices on the wind, they return
- the homesteaders and journeymen,
the harnessed...

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Music at the Park 


I used to love the spring and summers when I was younger. 
When the days were warm and brought nature into bloom. 
I remember when all gathered to listen to music...

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Fickle

The ebb and flow of life;
Fickle is, fickle does, fickle so
Yet struggle we all to know,
Can we really do this?
Love—yeah, Friendship—yeah,
Character, Smart, Dumb, Fun;
Do we know what we want?
Forever fickle can be that
Forever pickle that...

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Yellow and white eggs as colorful as meadow flowers:
broiled, scrambled or over-easy...
they are my morning healthy choice;
they frizzle when they cook in this non-stick frying pan...
shouldn't I thank that generous hen?
How many times oil splashes...

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In a drizzle, droplets drip;
Hair will frizzle, make-up slip.
Streets will glisten, raincoats bead;
Wipers work the lowest speed.

Rain that’s steady slashes down;
Puddles plash and insects drown.
Folks’ umbrellas bump and clash;
Headlights blind you, bold and brash.

Pouring cloudbursts...

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