Long Madeline Poems

Everything I know...I learned from children’s books 

One day I ran to Grandpa and I looked into his ear.
“Mommy says you’re pretty smart…do you keep your brains in here?”

“Oh, It’s too dark. I can’t see...

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One day I ran to Grandpa…And I looked into his ear.
“Mommy says you’re pretty smart….Do you keep your brains in here?”

It’s too dark in here. I can’t see a thing…I don’t know what to do.
Grandpa...

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I love spending nights on the lake.
Once the oven-like sun disappears,
things get suddenly quiet, except for
the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs
and the soft lapping of the lake on the boat.
When the moon rises...

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Yesterday, I signed an electronic consent form for Lynn to be in hospice care.  At the New Life Stone Avenue adult family home in Shoreline Washington.  She will be or already is released...

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As I looked upon her face                             ...

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Sharp alien quiet accosts our nuclear fallout,
Twin beds and I between them,
Remnants of faces
Laughter, tears,
Exchanges deadline in future tense,
The decimating absence of marriage
To anything whole--

This uniform hotel room mien
Eats emotional in-betweens
R B G
Symmetrically channeling Western...

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Dead now, Jackie Walsh?
Smolderingly blonde like a strawberry,
protesting your stolen innocence; one snuffed candle.
So much promise you had, the favored cousin,
my own father loved you best.
All gone in an instant, one busy street, and one...

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Why must we live in a world full of hate?
Why is love something people won't give, yet are happy to take?
If there's a god, why does he allow little kids to get cancer and women...

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Madly Iridescent
By Rick Rucker

My wife had told me about her boss,
That, to not meet her, would be my loss,

I stopped by to see my Honey,
Something silly, like to give her money,

She said, as long as...

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RAPUNZELS' DOUBLE LIFE - ONCE UPON A TIME

Not so long ago
A housewife named Rapunzel
Lived in a modest bungalow
A white picket fence contained it
Flowers filled beautiful garden beds
A swinging seat Rapunzel would sit
Golden ringlets tied upon...

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...But Madeline just too aim, lined up her shot.
‘I don’t need to kill all, just you Joe,’
She said as she aimed straight for his heart,
‘We both know how this will unfold.’

‘Charlie there doesn’t breath without...

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Madeline Cole worked over the basin,
Washing clothes for her, and her man,
In the wilds of Kansas, 1878,
Where grass, between horizons, did span.

A pretty young woman, a brand new wife
She’d yet to fall heavy with child,
But...

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Now we mark a big occasion
The “Golden Wedding Anniversary“
Of George and Sally, or to you 
“Leon and Gayle”
now here’s their tale ...

Gayle was a city of Moffett girl,
Leon a shy Allentown farm boy.
Opposites attracted,
And the...

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As he lay waiting, Madeline sat to take his hand in hers

contrition caught hold, their eyes , a brief moment

to once strong hands gone feeble and disfigured

" I do not know when or where ...

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She came to me by air
Milky white skin, long blonde hair
She promises me I will never be lonely again
I have her to love, I have a best friend
We shall never argue over petty things
With her...

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Molly III (Hanna)

She pulled her knees,
Up against her chest,
On floors of polished white…

Her thoughts astray,
She had closed away,
What took place that night…

Molly’s tears
In buckets, fell,
Warm like summer rain…

Madeline
Hair like wine,
Lost in hatreds flame…

Hanna sat,
In memory...

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A bright young fellow named Ernest
Went to med school to be an internist.
  But the sight of insides
  Gave him really bad vibes,
So he took up accounting in earnest.

A shifty young lawyer named...

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Molly II (Madeline)

Madeline helped Molly stand,
On her own,
She was too weak…

They gazed at Sara,
In pools of blood,
Lying at their feet…

SHHHHH

Speak not of me,
And do not laugh,
Cast your stare aside…

From behind the pads,
Of darkened room,
And leather...

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Four Cafe’s

It was post digestion time, 6pm ! uncomfortable bloating causing a staggering stand,supported by the apartment windows brass clasp, the torn green velvet digestion chair lilted just beneath. Nested above the Canal Madeline, perched...

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Four Cafe’s

It was post digestion time, 10pm ! uncomfortable bloating causing a staggering stand,supported by the apartment windows brass clasp, the torn green velvet digestion chair lilted just beneath. Nested above the Canal Madeline, perched...

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The spiral staircase made her high heels sing
and off the railing with excitement she began swing. 
She missed her love that began with a single kiss
and inside her heartfelt story never went amiss.  

Towne...

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Daughter of mine 
I watch you like a rose bud
You bloom when you are in the room
Your innocence drives your soul 
Your radiants fills the room
Tiny hands to nail polished fingertips
You had such a tight...

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I am careful to not look under the mulberry bush at apartment five.
For that is where my meanest of mean great aunt Ginny Madeline lies.
She was bossy, a real shrew, who was always telling me...

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I needed some storage space so I checked out
The floor underneath the kids’ bed.
It’s a very old bunk but instead of some room,
This is what I encountered instead:

A bag filled with newspapers, all from the...

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Madeline’s McMansion with the adorable painted flowers
Hidden in the meadow where the best vegetation grows,
Peeks at the rare visitor, ready to unleash her magic powers.
Ethereal and fantastic, her artistry in land and paintings show.

She has...

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