Long Helpings Poems
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Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top
Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top...
spry buck analogous to energizing bunny
jump/kickstarted procreation ruckus.
Home on the range
cacophony quite absurd
PlayBoy Bunny herd
and felt ingratiatingly inured,
nevertheless colony or nest
of doe eyed demoiselles
stewed over...
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Categories:
helpings, 12th grade, adventure, america, animal, candy, computer,
Form:
Rhyme
Harold the Hugh Hefner Carrot Top Buck
Harold the Hugh Hefner carrot top buck
Ruled his hare'm
nsync with trumpeting Donald Duck,
(loud enough to arouse Daisy),
the former cartoon character,
a pensive searing black kind Roebuck
heir to a fortune hauling trash and rubbish,
whereby dust bunnies...
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Categories:
helpings, adventure, age, appreciation, business, character, friendship love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trapper and the Brave, Part I
It was back in nineteen-nineteen
when Timlin Rivers checked his traps,
by one he found just a weasel skin,
did not know what to make of that.
Why would bother to raid a trap
but leave the pricey skin behind?
Who’d...
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Categories:
helpings, adventure, family, friendship, grandfather, life, nature, winter,
Form:
Narrative
Quick With the Pen
quick with the pen you have a great deal communication
through words twisted on the vine such as the pale horse to be rode on
Their are simpler things in life such as the honey on the...
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Categories:
helpings, art, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Indigestion
It started with an apple in paradise or was it a date they consumed
Had they kept their clothes off laundry day would have been easier
The smell of seduction and no fake news
Honestly who cares whether...
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Categories:
helpings, conflict, corruption, food,
Form:
Free verse
A Highland Trip
I entered the hotel dining room and sat at my table for an early breakfast, watching the rain pelting against the windows, overlooking the River Clyde. Conversation was limited; more audible the clinking of crockery...
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Categories:
helpings, travel, weather,
Form:
Haibun
Blessings Are Mine
Blessings, saturated in God’s favor, fruitful, divine. You have yours. Here is a mind full of mine:
Agápe, a selfless love, contains all of God’s goodness and grace.
Baptism, an open air declaration; bath of Bathsheba, forgiven.
Clear...
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Categories:
helpings, christian,
Form:
Abecedarian
Totalitarian Menu
If you want to keep
your expanding
...
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Categories:
helpings, metaphor, political, satire, truth,
Form:
Verse
The Precious Gift
I remember the day as if it were yesterday,
The snowfall was heavy, we sat and watched it
We hadn’t spoken for god knows how long
Days would go by, me reading and she would knit
But that day...
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Categories:
helpings, happiness, sad, wife, day, mum,
Form:
Rhyme
To Go
Dam baby you are looking
SO very fly!
dont you see me undressing
you with my eyes?
I feel the butterflies swirling
ON the inside
You are the one for me
don't need anyone else...
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Categories:
helpings, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Trifles
Custard in trifle is not bull-shark infested
Despite popular myth, ah but so easily tested
Pour jelly and sherry, sponge biscuit for bedding
Add fruits of the tropics from trees that are shedding
A dash of Madeira from slopes...
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Categories:
helpings, howl,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Bubba Spent the Night
Our son asked can a friend stay over
He just moved here from dover
The friend says tonight's Friday, usually we have pig's innards
He says my name is Cleetus Billy Joe Jim Bob Jones, after he stutters...
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Categories:
helpings, family, food, children, friendship, funny, parody, satire,
Form:
Ballad
Categories:
helpings, hope, life, teen, uplifting, urban, me, me,
Form:
Bio
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxix
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXIX
IF you pull a long pained face
The kind poets affect and gladly display
Throughout the ages with their lonely-heart feelings in lyrical grace
You might end up Precious Pearl...
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Categories:
helpings, appreciation, art, poetry, poets, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Girl Named Puddin' (
She is round and short, but very sweet
This is not the kind of girl for bare cupboards, she loves to eat
If you invite her to dinner, please be advised
She will want her second helpings...
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Categories:
helpings, food, funny, health, food, girl,
Form:
ABC
Rocky Road Revelations
hiding under the flannel sheets
viewing the static matinee
thinking it is too late for me
i decide to start
i realize that i am actually good at something
i study over too many of those mini snicker bars
i...
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Categories:
helpings, blessing, god, growing up, growth, jesus, moving
Form:
Free verse
Hearty Poetry Soup
It’s the time of the year to make a steaming hot soup
To remember some of the best in our poetry group*
When I make soup I throw in everything I have in stock
My hot poetry soup...
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Categories:
helpings, love, poets, thank you, thanks, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Food For Thought
Pancakes, Waffles, Eggs Benedict...
When I look at the menu I am in conflict.
But breakfast menus are so hard to take,
As sometimes I just want something that's baked.
A Pecan Roll would be nice right now,
Whoever came...
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Categories:
helpings, food, funnylove,
Form:
Couplet
Cook Out
Shopping day today and my supplies are low.
I plan on inviting everyone to a cook out
so I better make a list of what I will need.
I will need tolerance – sure I have some, but
there...
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Categories:
helpings, imagination, introspection, life, people, philosophypeople, people, prejudice,
Form:
Narrative
What Jesus Means To Me
What Jesus Means To Me
This poem is based on sermon by Father Dave Davis,
Rector of St. James Episcopal Church, Shallotte, NC
on March 22, 2015. Gospel for Day was John 12:20-23.
Maybe they might put my poem...
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Categories:
helpings, religious,
Form:
Couplet
Plain White Bread
Plain White Bread
There is something said for plain white bread,
It’s the wheat and oats I really dread.
And real sugar, not that blue or pink,
Nothing artificial, I tend to think.
Give me milk, not two percent...
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Categories:
helpings, funnyme, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Manila Vanilla
Oh the milkshakes in Manila are a wonderful treat
A pretty Filipina is a party complete
The strawberry, blackberry, and blueberry cream
Are second to vanilla in a dewberry dream
Now the seashore in Manila is a beautiful place
The...
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Categories:
helpings, beach, beautiful, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
Pleasuredoma
Lava stiletto lips
drips Medusa kisses
transmitting stone corpse aperitifs
she slithetrs hither on
out of night sways of
narcoleptic nuptial napkins
snake strand locks of love
conceal couquettic tenderizing
fetish fantasies of climactic
carnivorous copulations.
Leviathan legs of boa bondage
clench my...
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Categories:
helpings, appreciation, history, remember, symbolism, together, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Senior Center
Senior Center Going
Senior Senior going is always well worth
Greatest in Brunswick County and on earth
When things you want to find a place to do
And about them curiosity grew and grew.
Many things your mind, they try...
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Categories:
helpings, encouraging,
Form:
Couplet
Christmas At My Mama's House
Hot steamy mashed potatoes dripping with blond gravy,
My mouth waters as I dip a spoon into mama’s peppered
corn casserole, a magical phenomenon that no one else has been
able to duplicate even with a recipe.
How...
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Categories:
helpings, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse