Long Woman of the house Poems

“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”

That man built a house 
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -

all consuming the titled prize;

like a bird 
sings a song
the metre repeats and...

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By 9:00PM I was ready to go.  Dark pants, shirt, shoes, and watch cap.  The classic night on the town combo setup for a not so hip killer.   But these days...

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Don’t wait for Mr. Right

Before you say “I do”
Be the Mrs. Right, don't wait for Mr. Right  
Think deeply and search through your heart
if you're the type of woman who can manage her home
if...

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She has sacrificed almost everything to make him happy she has given him everything he wanted and asked for, from having sex with other women to never asking him who he is talking to, texting...

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I live in a house of Pain
and it reflects the neglect and hurt
of the children who live here. 
The furniture is broken or torn 
and the floors stay dirty.
No matter how hard I clean
I can’t...

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She wailed her way into the world...
An avatar they said, Goddess Lakshmi had taken birth...

Her parents' pride, her brother's delight...
She loved and shone her brightest light...

She smiled she laughed in her radiant sight...
She didn't notice...

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He masquerade through out the ball 
Pretending to be every Jon to get a doll 
He teased, he laughed, he juggled it all 
This devil was no baby from the fall 

Enjoying trickery as everybody...

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WOMAN'S WITS
By  Ronalyn M. Pupa
“There is a woman in the house!”
She is the man’s partner and supporter,
Maintains household’s peace and order,
          Alone or with you,...

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a doomed affair


when a young doctor/padre came to the convent 
to check on the nuns' health, he met the young abbess, and their world ignited
when he touched her arm, her impulse was 
to kiss him,...

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A girl around 13, sitting at a kitchen table of the home where she baby sits,
is waiting for the woman of the house to finish getting ready to leave.
She is startled by two brazen hands...

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Does everything really exist?
Forgive me I tend to philosophise when I’m pissed
Scientist’s say that energy wants to exist
Like the warmth that you feel when you are kissed?

But they say that energy has to exist in...

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My father was locked in on an Alzheimer’s unit of a nursing home.
I asked my mother “how will I know when to leave?”
“You’ll know,” she told me.
So I went. Dad was playing cards with a...

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Try talking to me without instant interruption, 
I may get a lil’ excited and try to guess your next words-
I am known to do this beyond human consumption, 
and I may come off rude or...

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The backbone to every great man
For behind every great man is an even greater woman
Whether it's his mother,daughter, or significant other
An influential woman can push a man like no other
They become mothers and can endure...

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Take me back to a time when have a Pepsi was for merry people at Christmas,
When General Electric fairy lights hung on real trees and pine needles fell,
Father Christmas smoked Pall Mall cigarettes because they...

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LOVE THEM ALIVE...

I write with hot passionate streams rushing down my cheeks. 
Have you taken out time however minuscule
To contemplate the Romeo and Juliet that set your life's stage
You ever paused to ponder the mystery...

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Mixed Treats

Nuts, and berries, 
crazy people and sane, 
the definition 
not so much different... 
now as then. 

The flat Earth-ers discern things, 
that most believe are myth. 
The scientists tell us stuff, 
they have learned....

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The quiet woman cleans the house
that she does not own,
she washes the dishes she did not eat from,
she does not mind.

The quiet woman puts afternoon tea
in her morning coffee cup.
She writes morning letters
to past relatives...

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The cat fell into our wall today, upstairs, where I did not even know we had a hole.
I am the mom of three excited girls who are all shrieking 
for they can hear the pitiful...

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There is a man in a bar
Drinking a bottle of whisky
And a couple in the hospital
Welcoming a new baby

There is a guy on the beach
Selling cotton candy
There is a woman in court house
Waiting to be...

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Ungrateful World 
Afternoon the sky was blue to the point of banality and
clouds are silk dreams are made of when I saw a rat 
cross the village road; it was aiming for the overgrown 
garden...

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As I was sitting...
observing things about
I seen coming from afar

Twas a white.. long car
I noticed it has 5 doors 
as it pulls up slowly out side...

For a few moments of time
I thought... could this be???
My...

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Covers Over Windows

With no compassion
Put covers over windows;
Now through cannot view.

After seeing news about windows
being covered up at Mira Lago.

An underpinning
Also an underpainting;
Picture was hidden.

One of the members of 
Poetry Revisited that one
of her husband's...

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Parenthood

My father hung in the belfry 
so many called him father, but the old woman in the house where I lived
said he was my father.
When I met Mother superior, her eyes softened for a moment.
The...

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Waterway
When I saw the river it was not new to me I had often
seen it my dreams, its brownish water steadily seeking the ocean
and unquestionable becoming inconsequent.

It was obeying the law of the nature and...

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