Long Siesta Poems
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I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...
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Categories:
siesta, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form:
Free verse
Ill Fated Address
AN ILL-FATED ADDRESS
Being on holiday in Athens was truly the best 21st present
my parents could have given me, stayed with my granddad,
felt great, I traveled on my own, no more an adolescent.
Sad that I...
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Categories:
siesta, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
The Missus Served Me High Test Coffee
The missus served me high test coffee...
Ah... tis nothing more heavenly
(to one borne again devout atheist)
then a spring like January 18th, 2023
here at Highland Manor apartments
picturesque green covered landscape,
where intrepid dandelions
dare to defy...
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Categories:
siesta, angel, appreciation, atheist, blessing, dedication, drink, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...
to stave off experiencing getting
chilblains, goosebumps,
or subjected to the blast of cold air
wafting thru the opened bedroom window
on...
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Categories:
siesta, analogy, animal, august, autumn, celebration, character, hair,
Form:
Free verse
While in deep sleep tuning fork synchronized circadian rhythm in pitch perfect qi
While in deep sleep tuning fork synchronized circadian rhythm in pitch perfect qi
while channeling the energy of Google
exemplified by cute and cuddly moogle.
I awoke from mid-day siesta
exuding peaceful easy feeling
total all encompassing bliss
suffused body electric...
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Categories:
siesta, allusion, america, atheist, courage, heartbroken, humorous, mountains,
Form:
Free verse
endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me
endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me...
like the infinite vista
upon the midwestern plain
farther than the eyes of mine
(an ascetic and copacetic
shortsighted father of two grown
twenty something daughters)
can no longer see,
since sockets severely seared
staring...
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Categories:
siesta, absence, adventure, allusion, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, crazy,
Form:
Free verse
The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth
The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth
Sent my smooching life south,
whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie,
who kissed the girls and made them cry.
The medical term for cold sores,
Herpes Labialis, refers
to...
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Categories:
siesta, analogy, anger, anxiety, bird, caregiving, endurance, health,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lady of the House
It’s siesta, yet one can hear from the second floor of the house the animated sharing of juicy news some visitors have brought to the gracious host, the lovely widow of a wealthy sugar planter....
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Categories:
siesta, abuse, analogy, black african american, society,
Form:
Haibun
Stumbling Upon Beauty
You have to forgive me
Been in the hospital
For 3 days now
With mi amor
Who has been
In a month
white uniforms
Calm colors familiar
I almost forgot I
Step on new
ground each day
Antiseptic smell
Broken by humanity
When what is taken
To...
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Categories:
siesta, appreciation, beautiful, encouraging, food, places, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture like a burning man in Dante's Inferno
Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture (like a burning man) in Dante's Inferno
Self immolation as sacrificial bleating lamb
promises eternal martyrdom
awaiting voluntary die hard protester,
where countless vestal virgins provide blissfulness
(think Playboy mansion on steroids)
synonymous with...
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Categories:
siesta, abuse, allusion, america, anger, anxiety, atheist, fire,
Form:
Free verse
East of Los Angeles
When an expanse of sands comes into view
you’ll see sparsely dotted weeds lying flat on the ground.
For soil is sterile and weather is harsh the weeds are not only unable
to grow tall but struggle...
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Categories:
siesta, feelings, home, missing, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Spring Equinox 2018
this middle aged rue stirring bummer
haint no stranger to cold,
when dark hen stormy wintry days
eggs hit from Arctic portal en fold
ding Atlantic Seaboard
in a blizzard of...
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Categories:
siesta, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation, dedication, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To Coffee
ODE TO COFFEE
Published Hill Rag, Eskimo Pie, Coffee with Underwood
Mistress of sacred love
Sacred lady of desire
You start my day
Setting my heart on fire
With your dark delicious brew
And throughout the day
Whenever the mean old blues...
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Categories:
siesta, allegory, funny, good morning,
Form:
Free verse
Acid Reflux 7:00 Post Meridiem September 24th 2019
Acid reflux ~ 7:00 post meridiem September 24th, 2019
Ah... nothing more enjoyable than acidic gastric fluid flowing backward into esophagus, resulting in heartburn, disrupting pleasant dreams, nor unsure how successful literary endeavor crafting poem regarding...
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Categories:
siesta, 11th grade, 12th grade, angst, health, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Dandelion Dreams
I rise from the white-wine siesta,
letting go of the serpentine songs,
like a crimson-winged dragonfly
lost in the poppy prairies of Persephone,
untangling my prisoned heart
chained by the churning
deceit of Hades’s immortal chains,
savoring pomegranate promises,
pirouetting through petrichor nirvana,
as...
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Categories:
siesta, dream, gothic, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Seduce Me In Black and White - Erotic Verse
Seduce me in Black and White
You reach toward my face
and touch my lips
Tracing the slightly raised pink curve of them
gently - lightly - before
the urge to kiss me seizes the opportunity
Surrealistic sensations immortalize
as our lips...
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Categories:
siesta, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Free verse
Mowed Down Field Day With Redacted Mueller Report
Attorney General William
Barr black marker in hand
kept promise to censor vital
details of Mueller Report
swift as Usain Bolt candidly,
grandly, lustrously, roundly
youthfully blocked out more
rapid than an elegant eland
vibrantly, regally, magically,
and gracefully skirts borderland
which favored topography
constitutes grassland...
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Categories:
siesta, anger, animal, freedom, humorous, missing, passion, sick,
Form:
Political Verse
December 22nd 1996 First Part
never could this baby boomer papa –
lviii orbitz round mister sun as I write while wife
at present (takes her siesta) imagine
dragons, killer Queen Latifah countless ways,...
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Categories:
siesta, butterfly, devotion, education, father daughter, future, girl,
Form:
Free verse
Refining Consciousness
“instrumentalising mind, I rested thought
employing it only when needed
shifting to heart, I became self-taught
gentling touch, voice of conscience heeded” ~ Unseeking Seeker
When thoughts purge in restlessness,
we pause the...
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Categories:
siesta, dance, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Tropical Topaz Tranquility
I woke up to the soft
marigold melodies
of whistling waves,
reverberating in
turquoise tunes,
stirring the sleeping
sunrise within my soul,
while the hermit crabs,
soaked in salty...
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Categories:
siesta, dance,
Form:
Free verse
The Prado Thieves
I noticed her limp immediately
when she sat next to me on the bench
in the park outside of the Prado.
I inquired about her deep brown eyes
behind her octagonal glasses
that looked sad and defeated.
“I was robbed here...
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Categories:
siesta, allegory, corruption, courage, culture, spanish,
Form:
Free verse
The Bad, the Ugly, and the Good
The Bad, The Ugly and The Good (aka: Bad, Badder, Baddest)
The Bad
I am the gun-toting, God-fearing Ganja Gangsta.
I’ll smoke you, pray for you, then have my daily siesta!
I answer to no one, and fear...
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Categories:
siesta, bullying, funny, hip hop, humor, i am,
Form:
Rhyme
Women's Traditional Dance—oneida Nation
The sun receded quietly on a relaxing siesta, as
Calm clouds of the mid-afternoon smiled henced,
The beat of the drums provideth dancing rhythm
As she moved in pure elegance with harmony, to
A style of danced buoyantly...
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Categories:
siesta, imagination, inspirational, life, music, native american, people,
Form:
Lyric
A Day Is Our Life
Life dawns like sunrise
Soft pinks and blues against the black from which it came
Sudden burst of light stretching fingers and toes
Receiving blankets of fluffy white
Soft breezes, from Mother Earth, kiss the cheeks of a new...
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Categories:
siesta, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Imagism
Categories:
siesta, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry