Long Norman rockwell Poems

I have go not advanced degree
from a fancy eastern school.
I’ve no idea who Beckett is,
so you declare that I’m a fool.
Yet yesterday I restored to life
an old engine from the thirties,
I’ve got a PhD in...

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While Shuttered Up Inside... ©ozy
Snug Air Conditioned Demesne...

Analogous to my boyhood
     cosseted and bereft, I assay
to poetically elucidate how majority
     of mine years found me
  ...

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Using the snow spade to once again clear out the driveway,
I couldn't help but notice the lights that shimmered all day,
twinkling at me from the sunlight playing off of the snow,
giving the silver sparkling look...

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In these four walls I look, I see
I visualize dreaming in my head
I talk - I  hold conversation - I wonder
Somehow I keep my sanity instead
Knowing you listen through these four walls
I hear voices...

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Ma decreed they needed some culture to enhance their sedentary existence.
Pa wasn't all that enthusiastic and offered some very stiff resistance!
Especially when Ma steered him to the city modern art museum.
He would just as soon...

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1930

It started snowing during the night of Thanksgiving and until the next day.
The afternoon sky was a sullen bluish-gray.
The delicate white crystals touched down on top of the smooth skin of my nose.
It kissed my...

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The kindly old lamplighter ambled about the village green,
Lighting lamps to add a glow to that Norman Rockwell scene!
Sitting on a bench in the shadows to reminisce for awhile,
He recalled many by-gone scenes that evoked...

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As she was walking to a brand new school,
              four strange men walked
         ...

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It has been a long time since I asked you to share my name,
   Thirty seven years from a glowing ember to a bright burning flame.
I can remember seeing you back then,
 ...

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Connie was a cheerleader
bright white toothed smile
bouncing boobs
short skirt legs running long
through school boy fantasies
friday nights her stage
crisp November air her makeup

Robert was a loner
a stoner
bad clear down to the core
shriveled up inside
Salvation Army furniture
Batman...

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Feeling inside soul of time and weather change
Colder weather arriving and autumn harvest,
Full natural growth and the autumnal equinox glows
Wonderful time for a football game, hometown competitions are best.

Gnomon of the sundial projects a shadow,...

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They may back down
but then he'll continue underground
Exploding and exporting
His ATOMIC means are hanging around

A chip on his shoulder as the winter gets a little colder
the lessons of before still not learned from threats still...

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You were always honest
unfortunately it didn't extend to yourself

Regal persona was never exceeded by your accomplishments
If only you were as important as you thought others thought you were

Some bring joy when they enter a room
no...

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Poet:  Ken Jordan 
Poem:  Cotati 
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  October/2017

Cotati 
Is
simply 
simplicity profound. 

A lost in time 
picturesque throwback town.

Call it 
a painting; a mural
a marvel Norman Rockwell, 
would brush,...

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Scratchy, scratchy, what's that sound,
Atop my home space, high and round?
Could there be one self-served mouse,
Schemed to steal my sweet, dry house?

No, those sounds don't seem that soft,
For some such small rodent, there aloft.
Could be,...

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Last night I dreamt you saw me
Really saw me for the first time
Not who you thought I should be
But the real me

I danced in front of you
Not caring what you thought
No adult lessons needing to...

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I watch her sitting there, and I'm amazed
that she can grin exultantly. It's clear
she's just engaged in a horrendous fight, 
but on her rosy cheeks, there's not one tear.

She looks to be about ten years...

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Along the urban stream at the end
of a perfect Saturday,
I sit and watch the sun go down.

I watch below me as a father and
his young son pick their way gingerly
along the rocks of a still...

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Last night I dreamt you saw me
Really saw me for the first time
Not who you thought I should be
But the real me

I danced in front of you
Not caring what you thought
I embraced who I am...

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Although I'm young am tired you see
from all the scheduled laborious activities
stepmother decided to step out momentarily
with stepsisters going on a ball shopping spree,

With me home alone to do arduous tasks
such as making candles from...

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I recall times of my life a long time ago,
We tend to do this more as we grow old.
That wonderful old house on that red dirt farm
Where many of my kin and daddy was born.
Grandmas',...

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I want to live in a Norman Rockwell painting
Where I'm surrounded by the simple times
If you don't know what I mean let me explain it
It consists of front porch swings and Mom's apple pie

Sunday afternoons...

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Norman Rockwell
Rockwellesque



brilliant man with nostalgia values

with dreams viewed of a perfect life 

depicting amusing scenes

with sense of humor, shown

with heartwarming bonds

memories fade

canvas art

captures

life

12/2/2015


Poetry Contest: Favorite Painter 
Sponsored by: Nayda Ivette Negron 


9  8 ...

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Here in suburbia - anywhere,
it's easy to be almost happy.
We have time and permission
to talk to neighbors, wave at strangers
as we stroll our leafy streets,
          ...

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Mother Teresa, Bob Hope,
Norman Rockwell, Rosa Parks,
Walt Disney and a Pope*…

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Dylan and Pearl Bailey,
Frank Sinatra, E.B. White,
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