Long Paraguay Poems

A baby gorilla's bedtime is a harmonic period when the bananas line up with little leaf rattles to softly croon to slumber the furry ball. Priceless is the process of pacification and pacifications are not...

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Room with a view

I'll never forget the day we met,
my neck still hurts from turning my head,
First thing I know you were looking back,
You almost gave me a heart attack

I turned the corner and there...

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My pulse quickened
As tears streamed down my face
I felt my soul race
Notes rising from discarded bits
Yanked out of plastic bags
from decaying pits
Skin sun baked and bleeding splits
Garbage, hand formed into instruments
So that these deaf ears...

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Nationwide Insurance twas on my side yay
cuz, earlier this July forth
     two thousand eighteen ja way
windows closed, doors locked, and

     car keys visibly splayed
   ...

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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A FAT SNAKE???

Snakes are squirmy and sassy and naughty,
snakes are wormy and creepy and haughty.
They sleep and hiss and eat all day,
they creep and...

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My shopping excursions to the local marts are very rare indeed.
My dear spouse does the shopping, I only go when in dire need.
I have no interest in fostering the foreign imbalance of trade,
Therefore, when I...

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LORD, I humbly greet Thee who got me up, gifted me another DAY
God in THREE PERSONS: Father, Son, Spirit, I love Thee as YOU first loved me
I have a prayer list, and "P" countries, for...

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trilonnet 

Two thousand seven was the first
of "seventeenth" phone calls he's made.
"Hello, what cha doing?" his line.

Each month our computers coerce
with rapt attention we persuade
our faces and minds to entwine.

The conversation unrehearsed
we Skype as two...

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Two silhouettes
toe-tapping on an enchanted moonbeam
A nighttime romantic dalliance
Two starry-eyed lovers,
so much in love
So living a dream
Their love has this kind of feel ---
a touch of soft fleece fantasy,
a taste of honey flavored surreal
They got...

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What Kim can do in Katmandu,   
Ken can do in Kankakee.           
What Tim can do in Timbuktu,
Tess can do in Tennessee.  ...

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I tried to embrace you
as a steep descent of a river
with an array of steps
and you only sprinkled lightly on me.
But I was wet all over
enjoying your warm impact
before you became cold in plains.
White as...

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The athletes marched in waving flags,
All decked in matching clothes.
In all of the Olympics,
That’s the way it always goes.

Some countries showcased dozens,
Others had but one or two
And two hundred thirty proudly
Wore our own red, white...

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MADE IN PARAGUAY

     In "Asuncion"
   the saddest guarania song
    is "paraguayan"

       TANGO

   The father of the porteño tango
...

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   Blue jeans surround me
     blue jeans all around me
   Blue jeans everywhere I look
     blue jeans in every store and shuk *...

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