Long Squirrelly Poems

A week before my senior year at Honeysuckle High School, with me our starting quarterback - who’d never failed a test -
The friend of mine who - ever since I’d barely passed the first one...

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This Holiday collaboration is brought to you from Carolyn Devonshire and Tony Lane. Carolyn wrote all of the even stanzas and I wrote all of the very odd ones. 

I was driving the interstate while...

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A Dragon Squirrel Brigade

Dragon got home from the Army, wanting to be totally, in control.
He wanted to be a Drill Sergeant, to teach the recruits, to be bold.
He gave them all a blankie, and a...

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We spent Christmas in Camas, Washington
With Aunt Lil and Uncle Carl on this run
Carl owned the town’s only sporting goods store 
He knew local fishing; where to catch more 

Carl said, “Steelhead fishing is very...

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"I like how we have to pretend like we're playing,"
I said, though we were playing, my older brother and me,
But now he was headed over 
To the darkened shed near the basketball courts
To smoke pot,...

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I rode down yonder cobbled street,
On stones that clattered ‘neath my horse’s feet;
Till we reached a grand lampstand,
That marks the place that ends the land
Where city street meets country lane,
And horses ride in summer’s rain.

Out...

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I reckon you'll find this tale of romance less fact than fiction,
But please bear with me as I try to give it plausible depiction.
I was about half asleep, musin' on the patio the other day,
When...

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Awakened by a rooster
Going cock-a-doodle-doo
Was not quite the booster
I was looking forward too

Was time I rise and shined
As I have so much to do
To find some peace of mind
I will find somebody true

My mornings are...

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I have my Hubby’s steadfast belief in me.
He loves how my poems are light and airy.
He’ll give me an idea once in a while…
Then he escapes to come back, later to read my new child.

He...

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In the vines by the rear door
She built her nest
Sat on her little blue green eggs
With all her mother care
Warmed by her maternal heat
Garage doors opened with a clatter
Snowbirds unloading winter stuff
Frightened, she left the...

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When confused or excited,
Phil chatters inanely.
When he’s irked, he’s not placid;
He gestures insanely.

When he’s full of strange antics,
some folks won’t go near him.
He just gets on their last nerve--
no reason to fear him.

When he makes...

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warm,  the early dawn begins
swarm of honey bees on bouquets of wild flower
mourn as sunlight erases the dew
adorn the coming day with skies of blue



with eager emotions I rise up early
this day to conquer,...

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Poem for contest
Was a big test
Must be funny
Right on the money
Now it’s through
Screen goes blue
COMPUTER CRASH!

Get up early
Feeling squirrelly
Need a bang
Coffee’s the thing
Get a cup
Pot burned up
FORGOT THE WATER!

Canoeing the river
Start to shiver
Waterfall in store
Get...

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His nuts were in the open
He couldn’t hide them well
The females that had noticed
Were under his nut spell
He tried to hide them quickly
But, it was much too late
As the female with the biggest nerve
Did not...

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As the sun begins its return
mall parking is available
shadows pencil mark their growing length
as breezes in Canada huff and puff
the ten day forecast  leads listeners to therapy
super markets or hardware stores
rubbing salt into not...

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Well what d'ya know
Still ain't no snow

January twenty- eighth
My mind's in a state

This is really bizarre
The mildest by far

Find it quite funny
Weather's so sunny

Wearing bikinis
Drinking martinis

Old man's thoughts
Are hot to trot 

Charming the fillies
Acting quite...

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