Long Warwick Poems

“Smoking Gun”


Twisted Blistered dance with me
Come on Brother Snow get off your genuflection mojo knees
The World’s about to turn and merge
Vibrating dimensions souls that turn 4th and 5th must be better than 3rd
The World’s a...

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"Kris Kringle Kisses Kalliope"

A Dream: the 4th Christmas.





deck the halls 
with memories
poets whisper pasts
that are ne’er forgotten

where presents 
a life 
that’s neatly wrapped
and attempts at 

frostily forgotten 

tucked under
that big 
beautiful
green fir tree

where all the...

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Thelma Leeson.......
is in a nursing home, dementia will take her,
 and I will recite this at her funeral.

Thelma Jane was a Leeson and she was premmie born
Size of a sauce bottle to a tent her...

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American Bandstand, Aqua Velva Ads, Aretha Franklin, and, the Andy Griffith Show
Black lights, Bewitched, bean bag chairs, beads, Batman and the Beatles
Cleopatra, Corvairs, Corvettes, Chevelles, Captain Kangaroo, Civil Rights Movement
Dionne Warwick, Derek and the Dominoes,...

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Missirio Mannex Milton
     " the best ever"
                 And
"The FargoCity Groove"
  Stamble Prancer
  ...

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Oliver is the cox of the LTA mixed cox four team, 
And graduated from Warwick Uni in Philosophy, 
Where he started rowing at once in his first year, 
Soon to become the cox of lively...

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Tom’s the longest-serving member, 
Of the British para-rowing squad, 
Because whilst at a party, thunder, 
He fell, slipped with all his quad. 

He played rugby for Warwick Uni, 
Because he lived for, loved sport,
But Coventry’s...

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Dion Warwick shook me awake this morning
unfairly accusing me of being a 'Heartbreaker'

Over coffee, Neil Diamond chimed in
with his girlfriend 'Sweet Caroline'

The Allman Brothers piled in my car
and did a punishing version of 'Whippin' Post'

J....

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To Lovell's Wharf Warwick and I would go,
In need to find what little of our selfs was left,
After the storm-passions of domestic life had carved their share.
Answering the call, as mating birds do, we took...

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On a recent visit to Warwick Castle,
We saw the death mask of Oliver Cromwell:
The man famous for asking an artist to paint 
His portrait and show him warts and all.

I studied the stern features of...

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Just a honeymoon beach vacation,
a fine nuptial love celebration;
   we arrived a night early,
   we would find hotel surely:
“No rooms” was the sad proclamation.

“An hour away you might find one.”
They were...

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When?

When will peaceful ways be found?
When will God’s good faith shine down?
When will men erase hate’s frown?

Peaceful men embrace loves’ ground.
Faithful men let God surround.
Respect for all; please, come ‘round.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 26, 2010

Poetic...

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The Frail

The frail know not the zeal of robustness. 
Nonetheless, hopes seal
Daydreams that hearts conceal.


© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 26, 2010

Poetic form:  Englyn 
NOTE: There are several forms for this type of Welch poem. ...

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mum said she needed a stiff drink 
me, at the wheel,
closing my eyes and actually praying

a rented car, a wide car
narrow roads
tractors and horses 

getting my brexercise
not knowing how to use the GPS
getting beeped at...

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