Long Playroom Poems

Come with me in realty, 
as we weather an approaching storm. 
Dark clouds gathering 
like people coming to see a fight. 
And something about this thing doesn’t feel right. 
A flash of lightning and thunder...

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I really do not like the thought of a God that makes things happen
Call it destiny, call it fate, call it pre-determination
Call it God’s grand plan or deity intervention
Call it whatever you want to call...

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How slow can one eat one raisin?
How slow can one go?
A towheaded toddler sits cross-legged
Amidst his playroom with a raisin pinched
Between his forefinger and thumb, staring...
Raisins in handfuls...raisins in breads...
Raisins in muffins...raisins in holiday cakes...
Ever...

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Twas the night before Christmas- we heard not a peep
for our three little kids were in bed fast asleep.
We looked up at each other and knew it was time
to wrap bundles of gifts before midnight's...

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While I waltzed at the Ball
A little voice I heard
Go ask the Crystal Ball
It said, to have your future heard!

I left the dancing knight in doom in the playroom
Opened the door of the secret room
And...

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15 December 2010
By: Noel N. Villarosa

I was at my age avid for adventure
Played outside the home, street as my playground
Every nimiety of joy, I want to capture
Never ran out of a game plan to lay...

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Sixteen year old sweethearts, in her house all alone;
Her father still at work, her mother not at home;
Kissing they had tried; leaving hickies on their necks;
Petting body parts, they would venture onto next.

TV providing light...

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Poor Little Boy Lost plays a game of peekaboo
Pretending everything in his world is well
Spoiled was his plan for organizing a coup
and now he hopes none of his friends can tell
that he's been evicted as...

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Finding new courage many years ago,
I sang a love song in my quiet room.
I never sang dancing wearing a plume. 
Nor did I sing live in a bar’s playroom.

I could not, would not, in the...

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High in the sky
A dove in my dreams
Circles my head,
What does this mean?

I'm now in a garden
Full of bright flowers,
But I've lost my dog
And I'm hunting for hours.

Another has staircases
And loads of wood doors,
Up and...

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It's a place I know, 
my feet familiar 
with each timber plank
that deck the way, 
the smooth ones 
and the ones buckled 
and raised ready
to trip an old man's foot. 
I know the name 
of...

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Easy are the paths to follow 
when I'm young and fancy free, 
home is comfort, joy, a blessing, 
caring folks and constancy. 
My borders are the playroom, garden, 
narrow spaces, fledgling child, 
questions answered with...

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Easy are the paths to follow
when I'm young and fancy free,
home is comfort, joy, a blessing,
caring folks and constancy.
My borders are the playroom, garden,
narrow spaces, fledgling child,
questions answered with a bear hug,
nothing crazy, nothing wild.

Later,...

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Easy are the paths to follow
when I'm young and fancy free,
home is comfort, joy, a blessing,
caring folks and constancy.
My borders are the playroom, garden,
narrow spaces, fledgling child,
questions answered with a bear hug,
nothing crazy, nothing wild.

Later,...

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Easy are the paths to follow
when I'm young and fancy free,
home is comfort, joy, a blessing,
caring folks and constancy.
My borders are the playroom, garden,
narrow spaces, fledgling child,
questions answered with a bear hug,
nothing crazy, nothing wild.

Later,...

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Starting from scratch, can we imply
Was there a time when pigs could fly?
There's Mary Poppins, Peter Pan
the Flying Nun and Superman.

Starting off in different ways,
all of these flew without delays.
But tales of Wilbur and Arnold,
Porky...

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Easy are the paths to follow
when I'm young and fancy free,
home is comfort, joy, a blessing,
caring folks and constancy.
My borders are the playroom, garden,
narrow spaces, fledgling child,
questions answered with a bear hug,
nothing crazy, nothing wild.

Later,...

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I remember the first time I saw him
He had just turned eight weeks old
His hair was a beautiful sable
But he looked much to small to hold

So I asked the man at the pet store 
and...

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Narcissistic little freak –
The world isn’t meant to like you
There’ll be many parties
Where nobody invites you

Dance around with Mommy,
Dance your TikTok video
Hope you’ve got your bubble-wrap
Hope you don’t plan on a girlfriend

Only child syndrome
Only child...

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Brexit Sonnet No. 45
‘A Plan of A’
 

So trade has taken an unaccustomed twist,
A union of the many with the few.
A Plan of A our table now doth kiss,
Not penned by her of fancy leopard...

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She’s a paper shower in the playroom;
Her reckless celebration leaves confetti everywhere.
She’s an alibi without a witness,
A breathless explanation laced with giggles here and there.

She’s a wildflower in a sundress,
The mistress of the garden, just...

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two story abode-
old white wooden planks and beams…
oh how I loved you

strong structured built frame -
cool basement to store; protect…
a great hiding place

vast playroom closet –
just right for a huge playhouse…
imagination

wood stove radiates -
prepares meals...

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Beyond the breakers, dreamers hoist their sails
Lost in the clouds, on ships of make believe
A stowaway, escaping life's travails
Adventurer, Inventing hearts to thieve

Imagination wakes the inner child
A problem, is an island to explore
An argument, a...

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She was born on time
On a bright warm summers day
Both perfect in every conceivable way
We had been tipped off she would be she and not he
So we had prepared in pink entirely
Her life stretched before...

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