Long Fruitcake Poems

7/22/21

People continuing to show hate
As if they themselves are so great
While the planet continues to rotate

Boy you need a lot more than Colgate
You thought it did, but it carried no weight
Don't make me, or I'll...

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Sending the tending to an unfriended ending,
 yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending.
Logotype monotype linotype,
overripe stereotype,
 teletyped an unripe heliotype. 
Guttersnipe snipe,
 stipe snipe ripe,
 a wipe type a tripe, 
unleash a...

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Life is a mere dream
 A fleeting shadow that fades
 with time; awaken!

Seniors Style

 'Twas the night before Christmas at Rock-Away Rest,
And all of us seniors were looking our best.
Our glasses, how sparkly, our wrinkles,...

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Granny`s spooky house
My granny has a spooky house she has a spiders web
She keeps it in her room at night just above my bed.

I cannot take my eyes of it however hard I try
As it...

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I thought I would try entering Three Contest
With one poem-- 

MY POETRY SOUP RECIPE
                     ...

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*I've been called a 'shrew,' told I am self centered, petty, and a few other rather insulting and invective names, so here is my rebuke.


Who plays the straight man for the one known as 'Schmoe?'
It's...

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Dear Blabby,
     I seem to be in a real pickle in regard to my wife Candy and my eighteen-year-old son Cal.  He works in my bakery after school.  The...

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Lisa and I played a round of frisbee-disc golf today—let’s reminisce.

I love the ‘live performance’ of sports, how you must physicalise
discipline. You get this instant feedback that you have to own and
lean hard into. The...

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“holiday” card scramblers

seen them “holiday” card scramblers
heads down, frantically shuffling fingers
through the leftover scraps of the
rush from last week, from the weeks
before, from that crazy ****ing black
friday---
complaining & spoiled college brats
home from sucking on a...

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It's Christmas Eve and through the house 
there creeps a curious little mouse.
He climbs into the big arm chair 
and finds the cookies waiting there .
He only takes the smallest bite.
Santa will find his treat...

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It’s Christmas Eve and through the house
There creeps a curious little mouse.
He climbs into the big arm chair
And finds the cookies waiting there.
He only takes the smallest bite.
Santa will find his treat tonight.

He gazes with...

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if you have lived to see either
side of 30, you have been
offered a fruitcake---
it might have been round these
“holiday” times, when people
celebrate their fictional characters
that got the horrible religions 
rolling, or the
fictional meal that didn’t...

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Met a boy of about four standing in the foyer
Of local restaraunt.He was standing in front of a machine that after eating your quarter would give you a reading of your emotional bearing after placing...

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Title: "Jingle Bell Blues"
(To the tune of “Jingle Bells”)

Verse 1:
Dashing through the store,
On a frantic holiday,
Grabbing gifts galore,
In a checkout line ballet.
Lights are burning bright,
Tinsel’s everywhere,
Oh, what fun it is to fight
For the last plush...

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November's a lovely month when leaves turn crimson and gold,
but I was nearly smothered, covered by three feet of leaf mold.
Being so short, my cohorts raked a pile of them over my head,
then ran away...

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Christmas is over and I can remove my mask,
that smile that hides the me beyond
the ding dong merrily on high can go away
Christmas movies I never liked . . . 
the lights were nice I...

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I was looking forward to the big surprise.
My daughter had called to say it was a prize.
We ran to the porch before the big demise.
Because we have a puppy who chews everything that hits his...

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Here's a cautionary tale that must be told.
Listen to me, be you young or old:
after something has long been growing mold,
don't ever say (this wisdom, I strongly tout),
"I almost tossed it out". 

Maybe, I should have tossed...

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The girl and her smile straddle the rainbow
neon hair the fluid cascades of northern lights
seafoam cloak the ripples outgrown by the shore
she adores the breeze adorned with gems
emeralds fly from silk strings in the wind
kites...

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A few nights before Christmas
all was quiet in the apartment
except for a few ghosts milling about in it

Before I went to bed 
to rest my head
I thought of the words of a friend
who once said...

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I was walking in the woods near our
vacation cabin.
And to my surprise I saw a pot of gold.
I wondered to myself where could it lead?
To my amazement I saw the most beautiful
rainbow in the world,...

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On the 10th day of Christmas -
I didn't have a true love.
I burned my knee caps with cigarette butts.

On the 9th day of Christmas -
I reminisced about the death of John Lennon
and watched re-runs of...

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I've got one less relative than Snow White
alas, none of my six relations are a delight

Let me tell you about my cousin Regina
After childbirth, she's got a slack v'gina
She’s had a set of twins in...

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Three Needed Wishes

Genie in the bottle, it is time that you awake. 
Three wishes that you have granted me, I shall not forsake.
First, make me physically healthy, free from every ache.
It would feel great to...

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Mawmaw's icebox fruitcake sliced
Expose those colorful candied fruits
coarsely diced and smell so very nice
Sweetened condensed milk doesn't dilute
Chopped pecans and raisins~tasters recruit  

How about you?
Recipe:
I box Graham Crackers crushed
Add three cups chopped dried candied...

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