Implosion
...To be immune from aspersions mean and vile
May assuage our hurt feelings for awhile
But to really uphold the Golden Rule
We must also withhold words harsh and cruel—by poet
In an upsid...
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Categories:
oates, hate, world,
Form: Rhyme
Tina Turner Songstress Rip
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Tina, I saw you perform in Oakland, CA,yes, long ago.
But God has chosen to bring you to His eternal home today.
You, Hall and Oates, Huey Lewis and the News were all part o...
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Categories:
oates, dedication, emotions, loss, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Jammin'
...Privatize
Private I's
Private Eyes
It was a Hall & Oates Song...
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Categories:
oates, language, nostalgia, song, word
Form: Other
A Torch
..."Who are they, anyway..."?
My father would say. I could have argued,
there are different, many theys:
they might shape you with the delusional screams of their hatred through their words,
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Categories:
oates, absence, age, allusion, america,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Toy Boat Or a Boy Goat
...Sell me a toy boat or a boy goat
Make that one boy goat, two toy boats
No: Two boy goats, one toy boat
Wait. Make it one boy goat named Roy Oates
Ha, ha: Back again with soy oats
Soy oats for ...
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Categories:
oates, animal, boat, confusion, silly,
Form: Rhyme
She's a Good Girl - a Lyrical Collaboration With Darren White
...She’s a good girl - a lyrical collaboration with Darren White
She’s a good girl
But she tries too hard
And it just don’t get her anywhere
Living her life in another’s shadow
Wasting her time...
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Categories:
oates, song,
Form: Lyric
Look Who Showed Up
...As I set out
To jot down this poem
I had no earthly idea
Of what would transpose
And who all would be
Joining along
I'm as surprised as you
To these goings on
I don't recollect
A...
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Categories:
oates, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Pantheress On the Prowl
...Pantheress on the Prowl
She stalks her prey like a pantheress
on the prowl, confident and self-assured as
she glides into the room. She’s squeezed
into a low ...
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Categories:
oates, desire, sensual, sexy,
Form: Verse
His Hair Was Dyed Red
...the world watches Holmes
sit “dazed” in the courtroom,
with each mainstream media
monolith
churning out the sound bites
referencing his eyes & his
red hair---
the picture that goes viral is
of course...
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Categories:
oates, life, world,
Form: Free verse
Where Mrs. Oates Will Sit
...Where Mrs. Oates Will Sit
Waiting in his Cadillac,
silver gray, Dr. Oates
swerves his lighter
to his green panatela.
Next to Dr. Oates
a poodle barks, right
where Mrs. Oates will sit...
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Categories:
oates, people
Form: Free verse
Green Panatela
...Green Panatela
Waiting in his Cadillac, silver gray,
Dr. Oates swerves his lighter
to his green panatela.
Next to Dr. Oates,
a poodle, silver gray, barks
where Mrs. Oates will si...
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Categories:
oates, peoplesilver,
Form: Free verse
The Narrow Squeak 2nd Show Chapter Eour
...Well, I survived...
That stretchy thing!
Time to pause....
Have a bite to eat,
bed for the night
A good sleep,
is a real treat!
Now ,I am thinking....
It's been quite hot here...
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Categories:
oates, funny, me,
Form: Ballad