Long Lease Poems
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Beary Tales Episodes 25-33, Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved footnotes...
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Categories:
lease, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
lease, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***
Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests
No blood in his steak, apple pie with sweet cream. Aces cooks that meal
to perfection...
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Categories:
lease, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Rain ShowersThe Earth dry and bare; waiting eagerly for the drops of care;
Caught in the hot, steaming summer’s snare;
The flowers and creepers decorating window sills; all look desolate and ill;
As the nature withers...
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Categories:
lease, nature, life, rain, summer, water, earth, green,
Form:
Free verse
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near RealityHalf a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
lease, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Velvet Glove CompartmentAge defiant was this spruce and spirited citizen slinking blithely past the burgundy red doors of her enigmatic country dwelling.
As her olive skin neatly curved fingers
slid over an intermittently scratched carbon black handrail she...
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Categories:
lease, adventure, age, birth, celebration, deep, devotion, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Crop Failure - Bitter HarvestThe past can’t tell the future; I'd almost forgotten this,
The past six years had brought me higher yields than average,
Though expectations soared, now nada, nothing, zilch.
Our wheat fields decimated from the lack of rain.
And those...
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Categories:
lease, anti bullying, bible, faith, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
On Property ManagementMy wife and I were apartment managers for 18 grueling years that rented exclusively to college students, and - though everything I claim here is either disgusting or scary - or BOTH....it’s all true!
Well, it’s...
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Categories:
lease, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Surrender Your FearHear my poem announce, then refine and restate
its life lesson suggestion Surrender YOUR Fear!
Yes, Surrender Your FEAR, watch stick rafters release
(note: I’m ‘Missing, Roof’ too, and I still love my life)
see life’s cobbled roofs fly,...
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Categories:
lease, faith, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Recollections of a Reckless YouthWarning: Mature themes, though at the time.
Recollections of a...
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lease, life,
Form:
I do not know?
The Birth of Death IiIII
Brahma thence forged a form— a female-head,
Born of impending need, a weird form—
Black as born of darkness, tongue and mouth red,
Eyes burning yellow, like a raging storm.
Uncertain she stood facing what was South,...
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Categories:
lease, death,
Form:
Epic
The Day Before the Sale --- 2nd Half“Might you have an opening for an auction fairly soon? If I move, I'm gonna have a ton of stuff to sell.”
“I'm trying to find a building at the moment,” he replied, “a...
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Categories:
lease, humor,
Form:
Verse
Fooled Forever FooledMy man’s veiled message unclear
I’ve dallied for four long years
Sis, have I ever been
Fooled!
Turns on the charm on a whim
Parades what you saw in him
Just a tad so you are
Fooled
There’s not a ring
not a vow
no...
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Categories:
lease, song,
Form:
Lyric
I Posit Picayune Propensities Prevail Among Pesky ManagementI posit picayune propensities prevail among pesky management
Most favored renter status imposed on us
i.e. meaning myself;
(one tarnished prince of Highland Manor)
and the missus, his princess consort
who must abide by rigorous writ
of tidiness, whereby
every flat surface...
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Categories:
lease, abuse, america, angst, anxiety, blessing, community, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Navigating the PandemicIt seems clear that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, ...
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Categories:
lease, courage, faith, fear, god,
Form:
Verse
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
untimely death sentence ordained
approximately six months prior
to mother dearest celebrating
her seventieth birthday,
though the last three years of her life
impacted courtesy hysterectomy
to remove...
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Categories:
lease, absence, age, anniversary, birthday, death, family, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13thHarriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th,
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who succumbed,
lost lease on life
nearly...
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Categories:
lease, absence, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
SaseSelf-Addressed Stamped Envelope
Horrid tin on wet paper. Coastal fragments of an empire twilight. Nonsense to corners in a deck along the warped cabin. Would you be silent for a moment? Afraid it seems, all these...
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Categories:
lease, friendship,
Form:
Prose
Sonnet 18 and me!Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake and darling buds of May and summer's lease hath all too short a day. Sometimes too hot the...
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Categories:
lease, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, bible, blessing, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Recurring NightmarePoet: Ken Jordan
Story: Recurring Nightmare
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2015
A long time ago, an old medicine
woman said to me:
"Young man,...
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Categories:
lease, dark, dream,
Form:
Prose
Poetic Nugget Discovered Today March 29th, 2021Poetic nugget discovered today March 29th, 2021...
while rifling thru outdated electronic drafts,
whereby yours went back to our memorable past.
Circa 6/30/ 2017 - Lost missing master car key...
plus additional ordinary travails affecting me
such as near bankruptcy,...
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Categories:
lease, absence, adventure, anxiety, community, crazy, environment, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Rental Rebate Plus Affordable RentRental rebate plus affordable rent...
One benefit living at
Highland Manor Apartments
until decrepit and bent...
constitutes qualifying for reimbursement
direct deposited into checking
as chump change event,
hence one generic grateful gent
feels self satisfied as Clark Kent.
After wing and prayer
granted courtesy...
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Categories:
lease, america, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, happiness, humorous, march,
Form:
Rhyme
Offering Thanks To the LordOffering Thanks to the Lord
Accept my thanks, Merciful Lord,
...
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Categories:
lease, 1st grade, life, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Among Butterflies SoughtIs
This
Nature's Glory
As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece of land
Take a little time to mend
This rainforest trembles
An open window in shambles
Sitting on my own made porch
I fire up...
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Categories:
lease, betrayal, butterfly, conflict, dark, nature,
Form:
Concrete
Private ResidencePrivate Residence
Sign at the gate – no solicitors –
Beyond the rosewood door sanctuary in seclusion
Untouched by hands racing round
A face framed by chimes and alarms –
Measures of mincing minutes
Exiled with suitcases packed
To astral planes of...
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Categories:
lease, home, house, universe,
Form:
Free verse