Long Jigged Poems

While family Mingled with one 
Another and strangers the party flowed 
Smoothly. Music was enjoyed.
Everybody indulged. With a little 
Champagne some wine and juice.
The bar also served smoothies.
Adults mingled. Delilah Mallory 
Mother Daughtry and Amaliah...

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Through a wooded thick in a forest of New England,
There exists a secret circus called the Craft of Ringland.

Meandering through a meadow one night before the forest's mouth,
I heard a melody humming in the wind...

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Unquotable quotes: Beggars - XXX

Who said beggars cannot be choosers?

Who chooses for them the place, the moment or the people they choose to beg from; the hours of the begging day; the alms they refuse;...

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SHIPWRECK  SURVIVOR

He was lost in white surprise
Of drugs and doctors quips
His mind was filled with flapping sails
Of white that guide the ships
To dance among the white capped rocks
In North white nights of June
Bring in...

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SHIPWRECK OF THE FISHING FLEET                              ...

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 [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...

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( Do you have a favorite poem of your own that you love, but that few others seem to respond to? I have posted this here and elsewhere before, but only received one short comment...

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'whatcha say we spin a jig?' she said from 'neath my tongue
her almond bittersweet the queried tang ...
so naught but few, the moments 'til my belfry's bell was rung
and thus with such euphoric, sexy clang

"do...

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'Whatcha say we spin a jig?' she said from
       'neath my tongue
her almond bittersweet the queried tang ...
so naught but few, the moments 'til my belfry's
   ...

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‘Twas a day that I will never forget,  
My family and I took a boat ride together and it was magnificent!
First we walked towards the boat, splishing and splashing along the shore
We climbed aboard...

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One fleeting Friday Freda Foster fretted at the frog pond. She  said" This was suppose 
To be my day."
I said yeah, go on. "I've been invited to this gala affair at  THE JUKE
BOX...

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There's a lady farmer from Seattle
Who doesn't snore but moos aloud as cattle
She will only lay
On a bed of hay
Where sheep can't sleep for her rowdy rattle.

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There is a woman that comes from Belgium
Who has...

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*Image of Man Woman Winter by Pixabay.

Winter Love: Lovers Lore

Fables apiece advents the quirky whiteness, mingling amidst a dreamt sea of ice, a transient couple transcends ...,

Our eyes traced a bevy of cooing doves, creamy...

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When I set the sound mode up on stage core,
Just a banal torch lit up as I swayed on a dance floor; 
I jigged, shook and turned round and round,
A light on focus was remote...

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That fateful, tragic day of 9/11
was a busy one, for Jannah and Heaven.
The day the seed of war was sown
dictatorships the US wanted overthrown
no wonder the worlds overdraft has grown!

The truth though was in disguise
as...

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With chips and fries, girl buddy Pam and I
Lounged on a diva for night- time cable,
When Travolta caught our TV- tube eyes
Hips gyrating to Night Fever’s wiggle.

Our feet tapped as we looked at each other
“Let’s...

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Headline News:
Cross the Seas Arrival
Killer Hornets Near

Relentless force of steroid nature
Buffed hornets in out-sized wing chanting
Swarm-buzz of aggression
Predators to hapless honey bees
Poison stings like silver arrows.
Venom shrapnel from combat incursion.
New fodder for Hollywood flick diversion.

Part...

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*Image of Lyre Box Organ Grinder by Pixabay

Orphan 'Round

A chimp's bereft tambourine in its paws
jigged 'round a bunch of detaining gazes,
donning smiling countenances or jaws
that plunge as the organ grinder phases.

Rhythmic jingling in sync amid...

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I wonder what ether infuses consciousness
Why this delirium after last night’s show?
What’s in a name?

Oh    how I’d watched her
Every skillful     every reckless change of face
Every dancing change of...

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Renewed life rewarded, heartbeat pipes true.
Fable's a quirky whiteness, mingling advent
amidst a dreamt sea of ice, a transient
couple transcends ..., Our pupils traced a dule
of cooing doves, creamy emissaries
that solicit the air, cradled bears in
their...

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The cry of the turkey's gobble
left me in a cranky nobble
	so I could fall sleep
	no sound should he peep
stupefied, my head did wobble 

armed with a hatchet in my hand
hoping a final blow to land
	he...

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