Long Jelly bean Poems

Absolute deafening silence...

during and after a moderate snowfall
today January 19th, 2024,
within Southeastern Pennsylvania
and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard,
whereby blanket of whiteness
muffles sounds of civilization.

I hate a spoiler alert
regarding weather forecasters prediction,
especially when meteorologist
wannabe spouse doth...

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Five-and-Dime Store
                    by Odin Roark

Maybe I remember ‘cause…

Everyday was a holiday
At Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime store.
Colored things were...

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The day you were born you are mother and father's miracle,
You were a very calm baby boy.

Walter brought baby Erik and mom home from the hospital,
Mom could stay at home with you for a few...

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Alber’s Tamale Pie, Australian Meat Pie, Apple Pie, Amish Country Strawberry Pie,  
Bacon Pie, Bean Pie, Boston Cream Pie, Butterfinger Pie, Banana Cream Pie, Blueberry Pie, 
Chicken Pot Pie, Crunchy Carmel Apple Pie, Chocolate...

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When the sky rains down in jelly bean lights
Colors bright, multiplying themselves through lightning bolts
Seen through their candy cracks opened loud
Like clouded green glass glowing thick
Glowing wide jello wavering in a blinding flash
Across the landscape...

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I’m a tightrope walker, strung between 
the hedonistic abyss of winter break and 
the unforgiving canyon of organic chemistry.

The stack of spring syllabuses are a prophecy whispered 
in Latin. The story they tell haunts my...

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On strange days
like these
baking cookies
is an arcane art.
 For it is winter outside
how we transform
the inside
into mystic summer.

For i know the golden ratio.
i have surrounded
myself with graduated cylinders
that recall the lore
of  cups and ounces.

Retorts...

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POEM "JELLY BELLY" by martin gedge

A jar full of jelly and a bag full of beans

in multiples of colors in a rainbow of dreams

a taste that you savor in the juicy of a jam

bursting with...

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Another Easter spent
feasting on Jelly Bean Martinis,
sculpting butter lambs
with Nana’s mastiff Escort
snoring by tabletop fire.

Aunt Bea smoked lemongrass,
shading wooden eggs 
with Dappled Willow shrubs.

A whimsical Slovakian cousin
suggested we whip each other with willow rods,
sprinkle ice-choked...

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           ~Play With Fire Till your Fingers Burn~
                 ...

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So fragile so deep

So fragile minds have we that sometimes we scare ourselves in our sleep
When in fact the scariest parts of our lives are in reality often not realising the danger is deep
Do we...

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Rain hurls wetness
Public places watered;
Soaking exposure

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Dark passing clouds
Loiter and linger;
Tears from heaven

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Rainy debris
Dry leaves soaked;
Earthy tea brew

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Takeaway meal
Local gourmet touch;
Sensorial pleasures

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Two crows sit
Rain drenched;
Tree branch spies

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Cherry tomatoes
Crunchy sensations;
Power de-tox

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Bus ride trip
Nowhere to go;
Surprise awaits

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Old movies
Greyscale...

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A white dossier is neither a manual for a pilot on a pivotal stand nor a baking tray waiting for butter. Criss cross ducking on an angled penned out sketch. Drawing a ruin is not...

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Ahhh finally a reply,
I knew I'd get one soon,
just had to get off your knees,
and take your out of that pune

Why am I a slob,
cause I don't have a job?,
wouldn't see me piggy backing off...

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The Christmas
Illuminations are up already
It's almost time
The holidays are here
Baking gingerbread men
Topped with icing
Smiles and
Jolly
Jelly bean buttons
Decorating the tree
Golds and reds a
Glow
Always held the berry decorations
As ruby red bouquets
Pulling out
The holiday CDs
Glorified by the
Carol of...

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The juxtaposition of a jelly bean is a line out symbol which points not just north but in all outward direction. To consider an atomiser a friend is to put on a hat and scarves...

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I''m a Hush Marshmallow
Silky Sunshine Yellow,
above sea so shallow
far from Moony mellow,
Spelling spells of Hello

Rising above the Hill
Just behind the mill,
With much love to spill
Giving you a thrill,
from your window sill




You're my Cuddly bear
Full of...

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Four little dirty kittens came to the house of the queen
The queen of nothing except prissiness and being clean.
My mother acted like they were dirty little scrawny rats
She held them by their scruffs as if...

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She is the eclectic cat lady
Pretty in pink wearing a daisy
You be the judge I think she's crazy
Bobby sock chic her scarf's paisley

One big duffle with many cats inside
she will show them off with the...

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All you kiddies out there
It's “The Jellybean Bear!”
He's coming to give you a hug
Flying in on a kite
A real happy sight
He'll give your heartstrings a tug

He'll wrap you up tight
In that bear hug of his
Suddenly...

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Jelly bean warships judiciously cheering for the enemy?
The old timers do not understand this unnaturalness.
“It is an inescapable truth today,” Sgt. Mars Bar told them.
“We are all about preserving the rights of everyone else.”

Some tittering...

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My daughter asked me what I did today...

I told her that I built a violin
I carved the wood and polished it
I strung the strings with resin hands
'till the notes flowed like the human voice.

I invented...

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when the mind twists & contorts----
                shortens the span of attention from nada to
      ...

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i live through the moments
in seconds 
passing me by 
in hopes that you will notice me
but 
nothing....
feeling like a child
 in a 
candy 
store
awaiting a glorious
sweetness
with all the hopes that
if
I am patient
and a good little...

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ANGEL NEIGHBOR

When I think of goodness and unusual presence
I recall just one name – Mr. Germaine
Our next door neighbor, just a common man
Just a man, but one fulfilling some celestial plan
In those childhood years we...

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