The Worth of a Smile
...It started one evening, simple and bright,
Two strangers met, beneath the soft moonlight.
Online they crossed paths, not long ago,
With laughter and fun, their chats began to flow.
In the...
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Categories:
ludo, for him, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
Yew Tree Lodge
...YEW TREE LODGE - Story poem
When I was young we had a local witch, or so they said.
Meg Reid at Yew Tree Lodge. That’s the legend we were fed
The lodge was dark and forbidding,...
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Categories:
ludo, grandmother,
Form: Narrative
Those Connections Are Sure
...There’s some tie between ‘Steal’ and ‘Steel’:
One with a Heart of steel could steal;
A clear link of Sought Rice with price:
At shops we stop to price Rice
A clear connection between Twice
And T...
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Categories:
ludo, allusion, analogy, health, people,
Form: Rhyme
Little Darlings
...I met her in a bar in Trinidad,
a mother to the sisterhood was she -
three little girls what merry fun we had
and what sweet memories of you and me.
Madame Estrella, a tongue like a sword...
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Categories:
ludo, friendship love, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Sonnet
Billy Carts and Marbles
...Billy Carts and Marbles
Yes, we all played marbles when we were just kids,
Had a big ‘Tom Bowler’ and a bag full of migs.
Held onto your marble with fingers and thumb
No fudging allowed, and yo...
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Categories:
ludo, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Candy Crunch Saga Number 6999
...God allowed us to invent them: chess, mancala, Ludo, CC-saga;
And Candy Crunch Saga claims to be played everywhere
Methinks "On all seven continents, including Antartica."
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Categories:
ludo, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form: Acrostic
Beneath the Facade
...Million doubts, hundred solutions,
Then why can’t I sort this confusion?
Stuck between the angel and the devil
Digging my own grave with the shovel.
This may sound very dramatic,
But the reali...
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Categories:
ludo, 10th grade, age, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Ludo
...Is it wrong to think of Christ as ludicrous?
Did he laugh at jokes, and smile,
and sing hearty songs
and need to brush his teeth?
Was he not made like us, save for sin?
It is after Easter,
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Categories:
ludo, christian, easter, fishing, fun,
Form: Free verse
Make Do and Mend
...Make Do and Mend,
Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And never ever lock it
But still so many struggled
To...
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Categories:
ludo, community,
Form: Verse
Cheap Entertainment
...Cheap entertainment
We didn’t need computers
To keep us entertained
We didn’t need no Donkey Kong
We had that Ludo game
We didn’t need no gadgets
To count the steps, we’ve gone
We just had ...
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Categories:
ludo, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
So Many Times I Wanted It To Be Dead
...And you can't paint him a laugh
his face is a metal curtain
with attached sign -
no emotions allowed
you can't
nor you know how
and you gladly would
breathe life into those cells
the sa...
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Categories:
ludo, child,
Form: Free verse
Stuffed Toys and Boardgames
...Stuffed Toys And Boardgames
A tinker mending
clockwork trains
And other broken things,
Peered over his
wiry spectacles
Scrutinising unwound springs.
Between the jars
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Categories:
ludo, childhood, irony, mother son,
Form: Rhyme
Love In the Royal Grove
...Adieu the king,
Long live the king:
The crown was in the grove
Where his forebears dwell
In their majestic transfiguration;
There he would inherit the fiat,
The power to say and to be;
In the ...
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Categories:
ludo, love, spiritual,
Form: Verse
The Attic
...The attic holds such fascination
I climb the ladder in trepidation.
The attic is a time machine
Most things hidden and unseen.
I lift the hatch and take a peek
The old rocking chair begins to creak...
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Categories:
ludo, nostalgia, old, old,
Form: Couplet
Never Again, To Regain the Past, I Thunder Why
...Yesterday, was an adolescent,
while we where the innocuous fluorescence that lighted up the floral hopes of the sun and transformed it's smile, into a cheerful full moon.
The sky was always brightl...
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Categories:
ludo, timemoney,
Form: Free verse
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