Long Lunching Poems

     by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day

                 first comes...

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I’m lunching with my bestie Mylie
She’s upset and no longer smiley
I ask her what’s wrong
She said in my thong
My bottom is no match for Kylie!

I giggled and said stop your moans
You're perfect not like Bridget...

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Chapter 14c

Warriors of mighty stature
Armed with blades of shining metal
Fire-wrought bronze, a work of wonder,
Walked beside a bright-robed figure

Slight of build and short in stature 
Whitening hair around his temples 
Now the warriors introduced him
As...

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It raised more than eyebrows, to say the least,
when Manet unveiled his masterpiece
Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (Lunch on the Grass)
though the title suggested nothing crass
or provocative, much less scandalous. 
After all, a naked woman was...

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'Our Mother'

Our Mother - a sophisticated lady
Always destined for the top
You'd never see her walk on by
A top designer shop

So impeccably presented;
Amazing handbag, clothes and shoe 
Even perfume richly scented 
Numbered bottle gives the clue
Never...

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grey and worn
the lawn chair has dead leaves stuck to it
its one bent arm an expression of pained indifference
mud clings to its feet
and a single vine like a thin snake
wraps its way across its frame...

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She's thirty-three, single,
her Mom babysits her
five year old son.
She reassures herself it's
just two more hours,
then it's the blessed weekend.
Which means delicious sleep.
She has no nest egg,
she's just getting by.

There is one kind aging matron
who makes...

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The eternal seaman

Coming from the sea, he stayed at a B/B hotel Churchill 
 near the railway station in Liverpool, a handy place for working women
to bring their customers, who would come home late
blaming overtime...

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Memories can become blurry, over time,
like underdeveloped photographs,
or incomplete, like sunlight through blinds.

Our lives move ever forward,
like the inflexible patterns of stars.

Once fevered and immediate events
recede, with frightening, doppler effect,
as remembered yesterdays,
become forgotten yesterdays.

New Haven...

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He was tall and handsome in his suit,
Blond hair and blue eyes deep and soulful
She wore a long cotton dress with frills, pastel coloured,
Her hair was dark brunette and cascaded over her shoulders,
They met at...

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My all-knowing colleague phoned me.
She asked questions I could not answer because she was unclear.
Her communication skills are not the best.
I finally figured out what she meant
which was not what she was saying.
Miscommunication comes easily...

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He left the boat tied fore and aft on the windward side of the ramp
It was low tide and kelp covered most of the low end
The usual crowd was watching his every move
Sitting there in...

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When Dad passed I moved home with Mom,
       We were roommates at first;
Shopping, lunching, gardening, it was fun,
There were some signs that began, slowly.
     A...

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What if the moon was made of cheese, 
And astronauts were mice? 
They'd eat their way through Danish Blue, 
And Colby by the slice. 
They'd place it on their crackers. 
They'd spread it on their...

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A wish especially for your senior  birthday,
Here's to wealth, health and happiness.

Many years to pursue your dreams,
And to follow your ambitions.

Days with your relatives and friends,
Fulfilling and accomplished.

Hobbies that compliment your lifestyle,
Discovering new pastimes...

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 Jingle jingle jingle jingle 

Mac succulent and simple

Hamburgers, Cheeseburgers

Chicken & fries

Ice-creams ,desserts

long coffee  with ice

We have tutti fruties

to suit your sweet toothies

Thick milkshakes

 fresh juices and smoothies

We shake every wish

with salads and...

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*VIDEO of San Francisco by Scott McKenzie, Cheers to Tony Bennett.

City of Hearts and Home by the Bay

Day star's mist yields to its grip of a bridge,
Span steel strands, harp-like, golden tags a smidge,
Light drapes...

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Returning from a lunch with a friend
A man he had known for years

My brother shared this lunch time banter
he thought would tickle my ears

His friend had said that men are stupid
And that women,well,they are just...

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Off Season in Gallipoli

		April’s bus from Lecce unloads
		at the fabled fish market. It’s closed.
		The only hint of June’s full fare
		is one slight stall. No one lunching there.
		The streets are open; we stroll at will
		by a...

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The squirrels always ate the seed 
I’d used to fill the feeder.
They’d shimmy up the pole to follow
One brave soul, the leader.

Whenever I glanced out and saw
A squirrel up there munching,
I’d step outside and stomp...

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I like the feel of the sand between my toes,
A distant walk along the seashore.

Shells linning the beach,
All different shapes, sizes and textures.

The sand sifting through my fingers and hands,
Fine and granulated, meticulous and godly.

Boats...

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Eerie by night,
Serene by day,
A place of worship
Some might say,

The kirkyard is a strange place,
Where people sit in open space,
Even when masses are lunching there
It's still very quiet in the open air.

Eveything is so peaceful,
Even...

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Two lions lay down by the dry riverbed
It’s been such a long time since either had fed
One hungry lion then looked up and said
A vulture is circling the sky overhead

His friend just rolled over and...

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Roaming
that thick soup 
of a green countryside,
the black eyed Susans
were our only witness,
silent as corpses,
unaware that truancy was our creed as we 
drove to buy beer in souped up
shiny chevy convertibles
as we listened to Motown...

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Legendary lovers lay low,
Lurking longingly like lorikeets,
Languishing beneath a clump of larches,
Lena flirting with Leander
Lunching on lotus flowers,
Lost bearings to all.
Liquored up into a dual lullaby
Listening to a lay from Lake Lethe,
Eyes lit in lambent...

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