Long Homebody Poems

People once said I was a homebody, and I guess that was me,
Often curled up with a good book, I loved watching movies.

Like blooms of sunlit meadows, are joyful where they stand,
Stained in the world...

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Gratitude for running water on tap... 
and heat flowing with a snap

After shaving and showering,
yours truly feels winsome
though morose seeing
unwanted adipose "love handles"
inflating mine abdomen and tum
unanimously decided courtesy quorum
losing washboard stomach
finds me uncomfortably numb,
which...

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Dr. Foster lived in old fashioned London, and was content to stay there;
As red roses are content being caressed, by the wind from everywhere.

Dr. Foster loved his daily routine, like the violet repeat of honeyed...

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After much reflection and introspection I am making an alphabetical list of the things that make me, me. I'm sure there are more that I could add, but for now this is who I am:

First...

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A poem unlived
is a poem merely written -- 

sustenance our words

let the body digest with heartfelt
regurgitation – a poem unlived
is a poem merely written
 
as well as tasty center, a healthy chew
needs skin-like peachy, tickly...

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Everybody knocks on Homebody's door,
Everybody said hi I'm looking for Somebody.
Homebody told Everybody that
Somebody went shopping with her cousins
Somewhere, Anywhere and Everywhere.
Everybody left looking for Somebody.

If Busybody was a gossip queen,
Then Homebody is a match...

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It's hard to admit that I was in the wrong 
Everything you said was right all along 
You told me everything I didn't know 
I should have believed you when you told me so 
You...

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Proud pirate flag, peacock, pumpernickel pie,
Perfumed prairie pinwheels, paper two-ply.
Happy hanging homebody having healthy hi.
Heaving hitting heartfelt Harry hopping high.

Ballooning blissful blossoms beaconing blue Babe,
Luxurious lumberjack licking lemonade.
Merry mashing marshmallows mysteriously made.
Fine frolicking French frankfurters...

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If I were famous – wanting to remain unseen
I’d have a secret way to leave my house.
While I’d sneak off as quiet as a mouse,
I’d have a “double” leave by limosine!

My house would have a...

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My Aunt Bea loved her retired life,
walking around with a hair sprayed 
salt and pepper gigantic beehive,
always having a buzz sound in her head,

Her friends wondered what crazy
medicine she'd been spoon fed,
they could understand having...

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brown eyes that sparkle in the sun
inspires me to take turns i thought 
i would never take

i thought surely that there must have
been some kind of mix-up in God's Master
Plan

however i never questioned or challenged...

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Yesterday I thought of going to the gym
for a minute considered going for a swim
then I remembered I had better things to do
convinced I could come up with a thing or two

Today I was thinking...

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All this skin holds my body 
working or as a homebody 
what a miracle it is 
do not give me a quiz 
now I need to go potty. 
 


 
Under the skin we find...

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