Long Sleepy eyed Poems

Date:  January  2046

8:45 am  in the Damian Domaine 
Some are sleeping some are peeping
What are we eating? Said Molly to
Dolly. "What ever we can?" She replied 
While still sleepy eyed checking
Supplies. So...

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The Tale of the Bumpalump

After the Knight had unraveled...Flagan decided to travel
    and get away on a long holiday.
He thought it quite grand to visit a new land
    and...

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"Morning time to rise and shine."
The two mothers started their
Own chant "MORNING TIME 
THE MOTHERS SAID 
CHILDREN GET OUT OF BED."
The kids protested throwing 
The Covers over their heads.
The women began threatening 
Them, Saying, "do...

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Birdie’s Bar
August 19, 2008

To the old Plymouth
Mom came to salvage her brood
We’d hear the crunch of gravel beneath her feet
She dragged us three sleepy eyed girls
Sullen
Curious 
Non-entities
We took our mealy mouths up and followed her
Out...

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From my memory and from endless maps
I recreated my homeland to write newly upon it
And on the twenty first day, God rested for months
To ensure the world could shine darkly

The February sun shone mercilessly
As the...

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The window lets in an odd solitary ray of light,
Of timid color, a cusp between twilight and night.
It lands hesitatingly on the golden tip of my pen,
and then blasts into the iris of my eye,...

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On a snowy evening when the cold wind swirls
We sit quietly thinking of the boys and girls
And the excitement the early morning will bring
As the joy spreads rippling while the children sing

Years ago we too...

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A minor blip
A small setback
A little shake where a shake shouldn’t be
Did anyone see?
And breathe

The train travels relentlessly
Towards the Spanish border.
It’s dark outside and I’ve slept for a few hours.
Take a photograph through the window
No...

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A spontaneous hug from my son 
without having to ask for one.
Getting calls from my family and friends 
when it’s not my birthday.
Finding a long lost thing unexpectedly
after having given up the forage
Knowing that I...

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There you go again,
Mr. Ain’t My Uncle Sam,
stepping on my feet
Then telling me the pain I feel
is all in my head
Just us black folk giving life
to our colorful imagination
You say we be trying to avoid...

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Santa
 
When I was just a little boy
And it was Christmas Eve
Like all the other kids I knew
I wanted to believe
That somewhere there’s a Santa
And somehow he knew me
And if I could just stay awake
He’s...

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*Image of Nursing Home provided by Pixabay.

Just Stating The Obvious Poetry Contest
Poetic Form: Rhyme

PLACE: Hereafter Harmony House (Assisted Living Facility)

Morning ushered chairs align the walls
blanketed legs with tabled meal trays
infirm progress neath Andy Warhol's.

A chambered...

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She romped and rolled around me in proud stiff pompous gait
I was not impressed by the ruffle of her skirt
Or the wicked laughter of the flipping imp
But I pulled up short for a word choked...

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Fingers tantalize like whispers 
Heated breaths upon supple skin
Dancing in softness parallel to feathers
Aimlessly tossed by the wind

Enticing me with lips as they play 
Like strings drawn with rosined bow
A skillful loving melodic sway
Sung quietly...

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He says his name is Gene Pool,
right away I know he is probably American,
there are few to no males
called Gene elsewhere.

Yes I recognize him instantly.
My friends could have all recognized him.
Dogs with their wet noses...

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The Nefarios Scream

Camping in  isolated lands of parks and creeks
Untold experiences of adventurous beauty
Nefarious acts eclipse joys of freedom 
Blowing up cars to bar any escape
Tents knifed through in the darkness of the night
Wakening...

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Watching little crabs scuttle out of holes building fences of round wet sand bricks.

A long necked long legged white crested round eyed sentinel watches a line of pelicans sliding on wind currents  
caused by...

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If  you get up early enough before the sun the stars disappear before the sky 
clouds over
It’s that magic promise time of day when the bakers and milkmen are beginning 
their  routines
Soon the...

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Wizard 
    


I watch as the rays of the Silvery moon drape their silhouette over , The edge of the soft bed. The air blows in from the chilly  northern wind...

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The sun blazed through my window 
This morning
At about a quarter to seven

I awoke from my memories
Of the night before
Somewhere between heaven and heaven

Sleepy eyed
I find our daughter
Still fast asleep and doing just fine

I take...

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My favorite vacation would have been my very last summer vacation 
travelling to Florida with my daughter and husband was an inspiration

Who knew, not long after we would be hit with a world wide pandemic...

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Barrelling along, squealing tyres evades
disruptive thoughts carousing 
through my unconscious mind
Jerk awakening, with relief, to pearlescent moon
Still there, filtering images of you, as before
Silly, happy, sad, lovingly embrace my heart
Sleepy eyed, I extend my arm...

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Childhood Friends.-----Girl

Tea parties with a Teddy Bear
pretty dresses Sunday morn.
Grandpa said each time at church
it's the prettiest one I've worn.

Slumber party not so hardy
made of sugar and spice.
If truth is known now that I'm grown
sometimes...

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At dawn still young, a grey throat on the go
Rests on a branch nearby swaying with ease,
And moves from deep inside to edge below,
To please me, or to call the mate of his,
To swing and...

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I’m in the house, all alone
I know 100% that no-one is home
Without my clothes I crawl out of bed
Sleepy eyed and with fuzzy head
Turn off the alarm with a stretch and a yawn
Time to jump...

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