Long Proxenos Poems

Fires at a blue pills lab threw up a cloud
Settling over the town like a great shroud
And this gigantic mushroom 
Created a baby boom
Because all of the men were very proud...

Tom Cunningham 

It’s no wonder...

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Two young newlyweds Samantha and Ray
On honeymoon went camping to the Bay
But as they were rocking
Strong winds came a knocking
And left them nude as their tent blew away

Both were red faced and on the ground...

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ALPHA TO OMEGA 

A is for Arturo and Alexis two great Poets,
Who make us all cry and laugh
B is for Besma a great philosopher
And soul sister On Poetry Soup’s graph,
And Beata,and Gordon who 
With their...

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In her twilight years, Pixie Dust, a soul so like my own.

Jeanne McGee heart hears the waves of poems that live beyond every gate.

After the party, Andrea Dietrich, when sky turned nonchalant, changed those dirty...

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I just found myself clicking and
reading one of my favorite poet's Jennifer Proxenos poem's called
An Early Addiction

In which she spells out her joy
and love for poetry and how she 
got started

Which inspired me to try...

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Jan is so kind, she's versatile with her pen. 
She hales as the Limerick Queen.I really 
enjoy her wit and sense of humor.

Freddie Robinson's poetry often "wows"
me for it is deep, down to earth and...

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With special acknowledgement to:
Jennifer Proxenos!

     “Thank You, Dearest Poets All”

We all differ in our poetic skill.
Be kind to new poets as you don’t know
lifestyles or..if people are ill!

We just forget new...

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P S ITS POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 10
 Many thanks to you selected poets;
 Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it;
 Each letters...

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On an early spring morning, butterflies 
 flutter among  dancing leaves,
  While windsongs float within a breeze
 As the monarch flies

 In a field long forgotten, 
 Purple cues in orchid motifs 
...

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You Color My World With Love
           Darling I love You           
    ...

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[This episode in the Ice Cream Gran saga is inspired by 
Jennifer Proxenos’ comment on another of my poems.]

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A Limerick response to Gershon’s “Hair Apparent“
* * *

Hair Apparent 

The loveliest girl in the world's named Rose
From aquiline nose down to graceful toes -- 
   Yet poor Rose can't get a date
...

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A little bird told me today
It's the birthday of dear Bobby May
I'd so love to buy
A cake for this guy
To wish him a Happy Birthday

Jan Allison

A sweeter or nicer person there could not be,
He means...

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One quiet June night as Gusty Winds danced across the Ocean
I remembered you and our Summer Love to Magical Lands
Dancing Underneath the Moonlight we were Wild and Free
Unadorned from worry, riding the Celestial Seas of...

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The women of the soup have been attacked again this morning
the King is on his soapbox, with profanity and warnings
His credibility is gone as he swears and says he he
why keep tipping the bowl, just...

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A Time Like This ~ 
In My Beautiful Dream ~ 
The Journey Starts ~ Making Waves ~ 
If Only For A Moment ~

In This Thing Called Life ~ 
I Wish I May, I Wish I...

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Exactly 19 years to the day, November 17th 2000, I wrote this poem for my Future Husband, Elias Proxenos.
We were sweethearts from our early twenties, but fate wasn’t ready for us yet.  
We parted,...

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Picture yourself in a boat on a river
sailing along with the moon in your eyes
Following dreams found to make your heart quiver
with tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
counting the words...

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A lover’s moon
I wander the desert alone
Figment of my imagination
Butterfly in my pocket
Wishing you were here
Listening and waiting
In this dream called life
A window to the soul
An adventure to remember
Drink from my fountain
Dance me a rainbow...

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It’s the time of the year to make a steaming hot soup
To remember some of the best in our poetry group*
When I make soup I throw in everything I have in stock
My hot poetry soup...

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Sometimes two words are enough
                              ...

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clothes rent worn sackcloth foggy divided shades
gallivant the Gwerthrynion dynasty ruling Powys, Vespasian's
Caesarea a Roman colony Severus' matropolis Origen's elegance, incensed
Bassus' treatise an acephalous treatise          ...

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IT RAINED THAT DAY — Twenty Titles


Many, many long years ago ~
   In moon glow, a tall ship.
      Marianne in shades of blue.

An infamous legend, her Captain’s call.
...

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LORD, I humbly greet You, early this new day, a Tuesday in May
I return to my prayer list with "N" countries, from Netherlands to Norway
Adoration is the FIRST STEP (one way to PRAY) using "A-C-T-S"
The...

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I
You all know her, love her, enjoy them poems
Above all, a people-person, with three homes
I mean home-countries: first is Greece, Jenn's birth
Then there's England, UK: a must for mirth or rebirth
Third, and where I feel...

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