Nattering Poems

like a breath of fresh air

...like a breath of fresh air...

and all things considered,
broadcast on national public radio
Frequency: 90.9WHYY-FM,
I (a liberal democrat)
counted myself as an avid fan
particularly listening...
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Categories: nattering, absence, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Cash strapped despondent citizen banker

...Cash strapped despondent citizen banker
in unrelenting deep purple Depeche Mode crisis...

the yeast you could do
for a crusty and crabby old man,
(who I know 
like the back of my clawed hand),...
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Categories: nattering, adventure, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse


Cash strapped despondent citizen banker

...Cash strapped despondent citizen banker
in unrelenting deep purple Depeche Mode crisis...

the yeast you could do
for a crusty and crabby old man,
(who I know 
like the back of my clawed hand),...
...
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Categories: nattering, adventure, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Summer Solstice 2025

...Summer Solstice 2025

Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. 

This demarcates
most daylight hours of the...
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Categories: nattering, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFireflies

...fireflies
dispel omens
of the dark black hills
of knots
of knobby toads
nattering evils...
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Categories: nattering, dark, light, nature,
Form: Verse


Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears

...Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears...

of diverse and sundry sizes engaged 
in woebegone wild rumpus
as a last hoorah 
for diversity, equity and inclusion,
whose somber bowed heads
(hide t...
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Categories: nattering, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Shattered dreams of New Canaan

...Shattered dreams of New Canaan

no longer land of the free home of the brave,
original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified,
where diseases xeroxed
ambushed, crushed, extinguished,
squashed...
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Categories: nattering, allegory, america, analogy, animal,
Form: Free verse

Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance

...Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance

Despite being an amateur
paperback writer wannabe,
whose storied protagonist
stars colporteur wannabe
(thinly veiled cover as yours truly...
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Categories: nattering, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Victorious flirtatious foreplay

...Victorious flirtatious foreplay

I awoke early - now my body will sleep,
though thoughts rise like the Azores
of snuggling next to such an adorable atomic
bombshell of a beauty - boars
into my ...
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Categories: nattering, 12th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now

...I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...

despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before und...
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Categories: nattering, 7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Sneezing fit tests nasal septum

...Sneezing fit – tests nasal septum

The word Gesundheit was first used in English in 1914. It became popular in the United States due to the many German immigrants who moved there. Many Americans ma...
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Categories: nattering, 12th grade, body, endurance,
Form: Free verse

WINTER IN AN IOWA CORNFIELD

...WINTER IN AN IOWA CORNFIELD

Why start nattering about lucky tracks
Neath a tarnished night of a waning storm?
Haystacks in a disciplined platoon wait
With hooded coats, caves of hibernation,
S...
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Categories: nattering, america, art, metaphor, poems,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberThe Lady With the Smile In Her Eyes

...We see each other as the day passes by
Down aisles apart as ones laughter throws
Customers chattering colleagues nattering
Melding the days business in hourly grow

Then its the next day, like t...
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Categories: nattering, business, career, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme

Expectation

...High hopes built on imaginations
And human frailties
A meandering mirage on hot tarmac at noon
A recipe for hunger

In hollow voices, whisper winds of expectations among the trees
Drowned by th...
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Categories: nattering, hope,
Form: Free verse

Loving My Refurbished Fifteen Inch Mid 2015 Macbook Pro

...Loving my refurbished fifteen inch mid 2015 Macbook Pro

A lightning fast machine
purchased three days ago
now comfortably nestling with
said technological wonder,
where outside a cold wind how...
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Categories: nattering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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