Long Spiffy Poems

Whar art thou dame of my dream?

Eagerness readily overtakes me prior 
to succumbing to nightly slumber. 

Tis boot a blink when eyelids become relaxed 
adrift abed invariably occurs counting backwards  
from one hundred –...

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YES ABOUT A DRESS

El, please come shopping with me today,
He knew she would ask him anyway,
Sure Honey, he immediately lit
A cigarette, we’ll leave in a bit!
Shopping with Jen wasn’t too much fun,
She was fussy, and...

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Negligent grooming habits unbridled

Apathy toward mine personal hygiene
i.e. relinquishing attention
linkedin with bare toiletries,
cuz I rarely spruced myself up
nor never maple leave
to cease being hard nut to crack
and rendered adopted
couture modus operandi
of yours truly shabby chic
figurative...

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I Love You, Daddy
                        ( Previous title has been changed!)


Golly! I do...

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Eric’s revitalised me and my home 
Over his body my fingers would roam
He’s great at fixing and gluing
Expert at banging and screwing
I’m so happy that I sparkle like chrome

All my friends are pretty jealous of...

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_____Daddy Saved These______

It has been many moons since my 
Father passed.
Then came that day, I unearthed 
these lovely treasures Daddy had 
saved.

My very first pair of knitted
pink and white booties.
Add a first pair of soft,white
high...

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He grew one of them bushy mustaches
like Sam Elliot wears under his nose
Bought him some fancy duds from Cabela's
sure looked spiffy in his Buckaroo clothes

Alligator skin boots and silver spurs
thought he looked like all them...

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You sit and sulk,
Knowing each humman to run the other way,
Feeling you near and being afraid.

Fear not dear spirit,
Though they dont see you,
I see you.
They call you wicked,
I call you friend.

For you talk to me,
You...

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Colepatra kissed and shrunk me down to microscopic size
please believe this phenomena cuz these lips refrain from lies
metamorphosis transformed mine human manly guise
while strolling one spring day me vision turned to compound eyes
unfettered vesicles uttered...

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dang,
grandma    was a real hubba bubba-
killer-diller
khaki wacky   boycrazygirl

a spiffy    hot damn    hoofer

during the dark hours of WWII
and the devastation
followed with
unrestrainedjubibilation
beat me daddy eight to...

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I may be all wet, but I sure ain't no bluenose!
And, while it's none of my beeswax,
Let's have a bull session-lesson !
Take a gander around, and tell the guy with the cheaters
I'll give him an...

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Look at the politrick pretty boys
painting the green
on their flypaper sticky lips

Making plenty cold eureka noise
Pluto eyes winking barren Mars tomorrows
Uranus pocketbook sorrow withdrawals

Saturn smiles  ...  Jupiter dead ringers
Little green men talepipe spinning...

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(Is this better than ChatGPT did yesterday? We're having a contest.)

dormant as naked
shivering trees
falling before me

yearning
for warmth
and companionship 
in neverending 
cold cruel 
winter
Armageddon

solace at
the Grand 
found it
in a hot toddy
and hugs from
Angela and Shelby
my favorite...

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Written By:  D. Collins 5/17/18


Pro football comes on at 10:00 in the morning.
Game two starts at 1 in California.
Then, around 4 head out to Venice Beach.
To feel the sunset and sand under your feet.


You...

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What's so important?  I said to myself
While rushing out in a spiffy
It started me thinking of what use to be
As I grew up in the mid-fifties

When I was 13 it was important to have
The...

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SENIOR MOMENTS


In our lives, there comes a time
When we find that we're past our prime
Even though we're no spring chicken
We're glad to be alive and kickin'

Maybe our hair is thin and gray
But it doesn't have...

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Her spurs are smaller,
An' so are her jeans.
Her attitudes are taller,
These Cowpoke Queens.

In a Cowboy's world,
She has learned to cope.
Whether gowned an' pearled,
Or a lip full of cope.

She will administer a shot,
Re-bed a stall.
For respect...

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My daughter who was then, just about seven.
The sun had just settled softlty in the Pacific.
We were in Ghiradelli Square, a joyful place,as is heaven.
Into an elevator we went so sparkling  clean and spiffy...

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B Bloom Bootiful, Beautiful, Beatified, Blessed, Book Loving, Beis     Neeman
L Likeable, Ladylike, Laughing, Learned, Listener
I Inimitable, Inquisitive, Inquiring, Interested, Interesting
M Matronly, Mothering, Mentoring, Mature, Middos Good, Matters
A Amiable, Attractive, Artistic, Adventurous,...

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Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk

Know Your Onions

Hey there Big Cheese
I think you are the bee’s knees

Not a bluenose or a flat tire,
But, ooh hardboiled & too Oliver Twist to resist

Let us skip the...

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Income Tax Filing Time Again

By Elton Camp

It’s again time, Uncle Sam to pay
By April fifteenth is the filing day

End of January I meant to do it
I actually thought I’d hop to it

But it’s an onerous...

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Flower Power was an ongoing craze
That was way back in the 70s days.

War was raging; folks were talking jive.
Young military men fought to stay alive.

No spiffy crib for those Viet Nam dudes.
They camped with Jack...

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When you wake up in the morning 
And it's beautiful outside 
You spiffy up your Harley 
Because you want to take a ride
 
Your woman gets excited 
Because she wants to get a taste 
Of...

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I'm not who I use to be but that's the gift & the curse 
right even when I did live the street life I was the light in 
the darkness right, the soft spoken poet...

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Decade of my birth





All Show and No Go,
Ankle biters were Almost Home,
Baby, Ball and Beach bunny,
Brewed bread as Boxes Burnt one,
Even the Bad pipes Bagged some food for the brain,

Chilled the Cat as Chrome dome...

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