Long Recliners Poems

My son came home from school one day, wanting permission to go, to the Zoo.
His field trip sparked a riot. Can you imagine at home, what immediately ensued?
Trolls, Dragon, the weird frogs, plus a sundry...

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A night of deep and dreaming sleep on a warm and firm mattress with appropriate coverings was not necessarily an item on our wish list, because we drew accustomed to the more simpler forms of...

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In the olden days at school the only time we heard squealing in elementary class was when Kitty wore a new hair bow like ours, or Tommy yelled “IT IS SNOWING!”
Then we would all run...

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Down at the creek
     The sun rises magenta
           Against cobalt
           ...

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Eleven years ago, it was a glimmering, gleaming, spanking new house
And we were so pleased, as we had designed it, our way, for us.
We immediately eliminated a dining room, preferring to eat in the
Livingroom on...

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I'm relaxin' with my spouse this New Year's Eve just a-schmoozin',
About past celebrations in our youth that we now find amusin'.
Tomorrow we'll dine on blackeyed peas, an old Southern tradition,
For good luck and bring our...

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Children dashing and laughing throughout the mess.
Moms and dads trying not to throw away toys
As they gather up scads of shredded Christmas wrapping
Grandmas begging them to keep the bows.

Blinking twinkling Christmas tree looking less magical,
Appears...

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That oddly shaped bedroom
To the left of the staircase
The greenish blue carpet
Against a bed skirt of lace

The worst hue of yellow
Snug tight on my mattress
Opposite the mirror
Where I became an actress

If I close my eyes...

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As I sit on my chair and type
this poem, I think
about our past and the ways
we would communicate before.
Did we read an electronic novel or did we read a
written, bound book?
I believe that we had...

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Reading some homework
The day seems like artwork
Has the sky ever been so blue

Three guys toss a frisbee
perilously near me
shirtless boys silhouetted in turquoise

We’ve got our shades on
We pretend not to watch em’
But we know they’re...

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My neighbors have been celebrating 4th of July for a week.
It has finally arrived today. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom.
I think these patriots take time to nap between 11 and 2 every day.
They have tossed...

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My parent’s TV people manipulate them like puppets
Amazon’s hidden camera watches their strings
As they are popped up and down, 
Believing what Channel Z tells them to believe

It is strange to live in a world with...

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Remember the day that you brought me home to stay.
Every time you set in me, I heard you stop and say.
Chair you are so soft and I rest easy within you.
Lazily you reclined and I...

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I lost the remote in the living room.
On Saturday.
My husband and I ran around looking and looking.
At first it was just the couch pillows, we were looking through.
An hour into it we had made what...

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Anacreaontic 

Do daffodils cry  
Do snow drops shed tears
Do willows weep
Do blue bells bawl
April showers

Don't weep for winter
Miss the howling winds
Sob for snow white outs
Sad on cloudy days
April showers 

Splash of yellow 
A dash...

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I cannot trust my husband to dump the trash, so I insist on taking it up.
He has squirreled so much crap back into this house
I make him put it into his office.
His office has six...

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