Long Handlebars Poems
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Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My MemoirEach year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.
Dad had joined...
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Categories:
handlebars, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
A Dream With DragonI had a Dream with Dragon in it, yes, just this morning, yes, today!
And the Dreams that linger, that I recall, are usually bad, I’m wont to say…
Haven't seen 'Day of The Trifids' in...
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Categories:
handlebars, adventure, dream, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Summer MatineeI was only allowed to go, after much whining
begging, promises of unlikely saint-hood
if my brother, (much to his displeasure) made a pledge
...
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Categories:
handlebars, brother, me,
Form:
Narrative
Call and Response Poetry SparesI quite enjoyed writing these two line poems for the Bantu contest - the idea of the call and response with two different statements but the same sensory response to each line. A bit like...
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Categories:
handlebars, imagination,
Form:
Imagism
The Man Who Hung the Stars
March 19, 2023, is a day I will never forget,
You see, that is the day that my Daddy left.
Not in the way you may think.
For he had gone to...
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Categories:
handlebars, dad, death, family, goodbye, i miss you,
Form:
Rhyme
Year of the StingrayLooking at an old photo of myself at age 13,
I see a girl, rail-thin, but on the verge of womanhood.
Her hair hangs in long pigtails and she wears a modest top with shorts
as she sits...
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Categories:
handlebars, on work and working, family, summer, family,
Form:
Narrative
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 Part 1. Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of
shopping for gifts for people that...
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Categories:
handlebars, family, happiness, loveschool, dad, brother, people, brother,
Form:
Narrative
Halloween EyesElegant in burnt orange afterglow,
sparkling starlight opens the show.
Neighbors and strangers appear all aroun’,
porch lights and car lights enlighten the town.
They arrive afoot and atop handlebars.
Tots wave from strollers like famed movie stars.
Mothers...
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Categories:
handlebars, candy, children, halloween, holiday, humorous, kid,
Form:
Rhyme
Stepping DownwardsBirds chirping roughly on an avocado tree
I curiously look upwards to see what could that noise be?
Is it a sparrow or a mockingbird?
It's plump and it has all shades of brown
I'm stepping upwards next to...
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Categories:
handlebars, childhood, dedication, faith, family, happiness, history, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Icebox DaysA seething summer morning in the oil boom trailer park
Oral Roberts on the radio with the gospel told by Mark
The reek of raw petroleum is everywhere around
We little oil trash urchins play marbles on the...
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Categories:
handlebars, childhood, growing up, humorous, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Christmas DayI knew he’d forget
All I wanted this year was a bike, I even wrote Santa three letters so he wouldn’t
forget. I ran to my sister’s room and woke her up, “Come on, let’s go...
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Categories:
handlebars, christmas, morning,
Form:
Free verse
She Knew All the Movesshe knew all the moves
Queen's Gambit
Sicilian Defense
Bura's Desperado Sacrifice
with her arms wrapping me
we barreled the freeway
racing headlong into the wind
balanced on two wheels below
as free as mustangs in the mountains
abandoned in the moment with the...
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Categories:
handlebars, love,
Form:
Romanticism
Withering Hearts On An Emotional DepartureWithering hearts on an emotional departure
We believe, you cannot guess
What we are about to say now.
It really does seem like yesterday
You were snuggled up in blanket in the bed
Listening a story about ‘wedding of...
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Categories:
handlebars, miss you,
Form:
Free verse
Cycle Bike Psycho Ava Max Sweet But Psycho ParodyI drive around a bi-cycle
a cycle bike psycho
at night a light’s on
my-ma (ma) mountain bike
oh it’s a little delightful
my seat on my cycle
I ride all night on
my-ma (ma) mountain bike
I’ll jump...
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Categories:
handlebars, fun, funny, humorous, parody, song,
Form:
Lyric
MalimarInhaling, hushed, from hashed cigars
my mind implodes in Malimar
where Naiads bathe in caviar -
...
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Categories:
handlebars, fantasy,
Form:
Monorhyme
Time WasHe looked at the old man with tobacco stains on his shirt
Then asked if times were different when he was a kid
The old man smiled and said I’ll tell you a story
About the times we...
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Categories:
handlebars, nostalgiaold, day, old,
Form:
Narrative
My TricycleWith a smile upon my face and a twinkle in my eye
I rode my sister's tricycle with an accomplished sigh
Traveling as fast as my three year old legs could carry me
Feeling the wind in...
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Categories:
handlebars, childhood, sister, sister, old, work, old, sister,
Form:
Rhyme
A Conversation With Amos On a Bench By the Limerick Bandstand"Howdy Amos”, “Howdy Seth” as Amos points to the empty seat
Next to him on the bench by the Limerick Town Bandstand.
Amos t’aint much for words but he’s a pretty good pointer.
“Whatcha doing, Amos?” “Sittin’”.
Did...
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Categories:
handlebars, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Sibling ReunionThey're getting older,
five brothers and sisters,
all with degrees, jobs, families,
nice homes, good lives, happier
than most except when they must
fly to the home of their childhood
and settle their mother's estate.
They gather in...
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Categories:
handlebars, anxiety,
Form:
Blank verse
SettlingBittersweet memories are too hard to forget
It hurts too much to be happy
It feels too good to be sad
So we settle for less
We settle
Deep down in our seats
Sinking, bottomless, dark
Scared
Gripping the handlebars tightly
never letting go...
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Categories:
handlebars, life, night, night, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Dont Call It AnythingDon't Call it Anything
So you write something and call it a poem.
Because its is free verse it could also be mistaken for a shopping list,
or a set of instructions for assembling a bookshelf, but you...
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Categories:
handlebars, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Lonely ChromeLonely Chrome
Loch David Crane
October 14, 1997
The ride today was flawless,
the sky was turquoise blue,
the wind was warm--the only drag
was riding without you.
With my shirt off on the freeway
I was embraced by the sun,
its warm arms...
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Categories:
handlebars, lonely, love, sad, sad love,
Form:
Ballad
A Carrot Fancily Dressed As a ParrotCome in disguise, the invite read
Feast our eyes, allow us to guess
Dress in truthful lies, was what it said
Like a queen in chess, whose off with their head!
Prizes awarded for the best dressed
Whoevers costume most...
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Categories:
handlebars, fantasy, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Never Go BackWalking through the streets of my home town
Reaching for the Memories of days long passed
Seeing nothing of what I once knew
Accepting the fact
That I can never go back
To the time when...
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Categories:
handlebars, nostalgia, people, places,
Form:
Free verse
When Time Was a FriendI was listening to oldies wishing the songs would not end
They carried me back to when time was a friend
A time when I wore a younger man's smile
Culottes, pedal pushers and love were in style
We...
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Categories:
handlebars, nostalgia, time, prayer, time,
Form:
Couplet