Long Margarita Poems

     We sat at the end of the bar in a seedy place on Seventh street.  Nursing our drinks, we both had a bit too much that night.  My...

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All the guys and gals that I had graduated with, from Jimmy Dorsey High School, back in 1935,
Half a century later were dispersing all around us, surprising me with whom among my class was still...

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Written: April 18, 2024
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within a shore 
  ...

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Well, it all started when
Jim Beam bet Jack Daniels
that Captain Morgan
couldn't go out
and get himself
some Wild Turkey.
Old Fashioned, like Old Granddad,
Captain Morgan like some of you,
really enjoys his Southern Comfort.
But mostly in the form of...

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TH0UGHTS OF YOU

The last time I ever saw you,  
you were standing beside my bed,
so dressed up with your short permed hair.
You were wearing a printed navy long sleeves shirt,
tucked in white pants and...

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Daughter  of Mary and  Louis
(Named after my late grandmother ) 

My name is  Charmaine
a name originated from latin
Charmaine means -a song

Eldest of two siblings
Wife and Mother

Born and raised
in the sun-kissed land of...

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If I told you would you listen 
If i told you would you perceive me as a monster 
If I told you would you go and judge 
My unborn beautiful daughter 
I'm warmhearted 
With the...

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Cut to the chase after tan hat man!

Though reading horror stories 
gearing up as strawberry spring fest
full throttle danse (macabre),
an only every now and again predilection
genre crazy wave
washing over me like
a killer tsunami,
harboring pier rill...

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Many people are suffering just because they don’t know where you have been; many people are suffering; they are walking around with their hand on their chin.  

It was just the other day their...

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And Margarita holds her mother's sleeve
as she's lead toward the waiting surrey ride.
El Segundo with reins of bays doth weave
to find a space at colonnade's near side.

"I've never seen him misbehave, Segundo. Are you sure...

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Island Of Fantasy Contest
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron


I shared a margarita with you as we tip-toed through the sandy shores of Beautificia Island. No one in sight…just me…you...and the gentle current rising up toward our ankles....

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El Segundo walks boards and he doth show
good balance warning native youths who dare
to make him stumble they must show some care.
Then carriage he now leads to colonnade,
and waits for family's entry three to share
but...

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Another day has passed and here I am sitting in the dark waiting for you to come to reminiscence with me in the wavering sun. Days have passed and I have watched evenings melting in...

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A pledge to you by Edward Ibeh


I'll always rise with you 
Lying next me at dawn. 
I'll cherish you till my life is through;
When all is said and done.
 
I'll always treat you 
Like the...

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Proverbs 1:7 (KJV) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.


Knowing Him, is knowing hope
because He lives, I can always cope
trusting in His ways, 
through all my...

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Don Jose wondered why men whispered low
not knowing they discussed his daughter fair.

"I'll talk to Miguel when we get to Luis Ore, Segundo.
He can persuade his brother to make Margarita marry me. Don Miguel
and I...

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WHEN THE FROG GROWS HAIRS
To her, my sister Santa Pe
Slim and pretty
Our mother wanted to marry
As soon as possible
But she didn't want to do.
Forced, she met a boy
That he loved her
But she didn't even want
Nor...

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Timendi causa est nescire (Ignorance is the cause of fear).
– Seneca


About two thousand years ago,
when Quintilianus said it
(at least, that’s who gets the credit),
his paradigm was apropos:
the words “Vestis Virum Reddit.”

Garbed in leather, silks, and...

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Musing with Caren Krutsinger’s musings. I love
our dear poet’s imagination. Thank you, Caren
for allowing me to use your poem and a few phrases
from your poem. Used poem by permission.

My Food Flees from Me

Caren,

A creepy thing...

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I stubbed my toe ...

  (I do this a lot since turning fifty-five,
   when everything I picked up to read began going to
   arm's length in order to be visible,
...

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Take me on an awesome drive along the crooked street.
And treat me to a big burrito in the Mission District.

I see no rival to San Francisco where I spent 8 years
of my life as a...

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High athwart global sphere
planet Earth doth app pear
tubby totally tubular as a mere
twinkling gem devoid of lesions from hare
brained schemes to exploit near
Gaea, where

legions of self aggrandizement tear
ring into all four corners   
...

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Winners do not quit; and quitters do not win.
I once read a story of a middle ages warrior
who was being held prisoner.  While in prison,
he observed an ant seeking to carry a grain
of corn...

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By Sashi.Prabhu(zeauoxian0
(18th February 2012 nite at Kentucky shack on colva beach)
I was browsing through the menu and laid my eyes upon interesting cocktails and mock tails.
I snapped up the names with the blackberry camera and...

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•• When a new hive is done, what do the bees do? 
Have a house-swarming party, 
and give a welcome hearty. 

•• What did the duck say to the waiter? 
"Let me have my fill,...

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