Long Oversleep Poems

Lisa and I were watching one of our favorite series last night, a Japanese manga called “The Way of the Househusband” and I could barely keep my eyes open. I went to bed at a...

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Take out the trash on Tuesday and remember the white bags are recyclable; 
Don’t mix the trash with the pig food, we’re saving the world; 
Put the yard waste on the curb on Friday after...

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This is a three part puzzle, with a bonus question- each starting at 10 points, and, 
as before, each less one point starting on the second day (starting on Weds. 
10/17, at noon, or as...

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I was deep into a dream this morning…lost within its fog…when I was awakened rather suddenly by the barking of a dog.

I immediately recognized the bark of our dog Whitman…  I should have felt...

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My fear is not of Joe with hair of  grey, mind in disarray, coherence at bay.

Main concern not about his overall knowledge lack, or how he doesn’t know Iran from Iraq, or cause he...

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Memories are walls
desecrated by graffiti of remembrance

well intentioned people
all around  
and me
playing that „warm rabbit“ game
(take a guess who the rabbit is)

it feels like I'm one of those happy faces on Kerouac's road

I feel...

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All kinds of bills are piling up,
collectors keep on calling me...
making their threatening phone calls;
I would like to unplug the telephone wire
and have some peace at night...
but borrowing money is not one of the remedies!


My...

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Every morning my heart wakes up to find you. I dash from my bed and put on my slippers. I have driven miles just to see you. Many times with my camera in hand. It’s...

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COSMICALLY DEEP

Did the garden weep
With the ungrateful sweep
Of their covetous hands? Deep
Was the pit of their pickpocket. Sleep
Thought merciful and kind, allowed not a peep
From their rosy lips, where sweet cheeks steep.*
A father took enough...

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SUN DAY

     A
Sun Day
Beautiful
     A Pick Me Up
     I Sip On My Cup

     Suddenly Clouds Appear
Rain Splashes Like Spit...

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Without you, everything I do
loses value every day.
Habitual things that mattered, 
yesterday,
are hard to do, today.

Yoga in the morning,
even my daily poetry,
have suddenly lost their meaning,
and I tend to oversleep.

These give the lie to any...

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It is midnight when I remember a friend is coming early in the morning to play in the studio with me.
I really should go to bed.
Which friend? My husband asks.  
They are all the...

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Walking on a tightrope to you
Strung up between high stakes
Much higher than my fear of heights
But my courage needn’t go to war
When my heart knows the path is right
It’s a simple matter of trailing along

Surrounded...

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Alert all night
So to not oversleep
As dawn ended night
My eyes wouldn’t keep

We managed attendance
A moment to spare
But, greeted the entrance
And shrills filled the air

Quickly consumed
By familiar terror
Could we exit the room?
Declaring an error

How could this...

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