The Heat of the Moment
...(Cabin Sunset, summer 2025)
The Heat of the Moment
Settling into our new mountain cabin,
Dogs and humans equally overheated
In the shadeless August afternoon,
The only way to be is na...
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Categories:
paneling, mountains, nostalgia, retirement, summer,
Form: Narrative
April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad shy of
fif...
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Categories:
paneling, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Free verse
9 HELPLESS PERSONS BURNED ALIVE BY GARGANO OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE BY JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY
...NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS TO ME 9 HELPLESS PERSONS PERISHED MOST FROM NO AIR SMOKE FILLED THE BUILDINGS OTHER REACHING FIR HELP WHILE THE BLAZE CAUGHT ON THE PANELING PAISLEY DRAPES APRONS HOUSE DRESSES...
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Categories:
paneling, allah,
Form: Naat
Wyatt
...Wyatt
by Edmund Siejka
We were in London
Dining in a four-hundred-year-old pub
Dark wood paneling
Beams carved from tree trunks
History and privilege
In medieval England
For us it w...
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Categories:
paneling, life,
Form: Narrative
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil...
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Categories:
paneling, absence, age, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
The Lady Roach
...Hitler's final attack on quote unquote
undesirable humans from the bile's of slave
ships prison camps European complete
infestation thee German female cock roach
feasting on poor captured hum...
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Categories:
paneling, allah, corruption,
Form: Grook
Old Fashioned Fantasy
...Sauntering into the pub from out of the fog
the varnished wood paneling on the walls
reflecting the amber light from the Edison bulbs
in their Art Deco fixtures hanging overhead
the air scented w...
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Categories:
paneling, angst, celebrity, death, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
My Dream House
...My dream house no longer a mega mansion it needs to be
with ceilings so high in them clouds can be seen
No more acres of gardens with streams and ponds and fountains galore
no more glorious storie...
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Categories:
paneling, desire, dream, house,
Form: Rhyme
April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
...April 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft uni...
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Categories:
paneling, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
April 9th, 2022 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa Ii
...vi. etching, detailing (ala fresco),
vii. plus trimming living room ceiling,
viii. shingling (while fiddling) on the roof,
ix. tiling the kitchen floor,
x. building a cistern for brethren,
xi. w...
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Categories:
paneling, absence, adventure, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
April 9th 2021 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
...April 9th, 2021 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad more'n six months ago,
...
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Categories:
paneling, absence, angel, april, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
My Childhood Church
...My church is gothic, ancient, and smells like wax.
Many business dealings here, all kinds of pacts.
The daddies are sleeping, or pretending, at least.
The mommies are fawning at the cute youngish ...
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Categories:
paneling, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
The Saddest Days
...And there are not enough cubicles and grey paneling that
sugar rock candy lights won’t cut
the sapling eye from its still decline into Abyss.
And there are not enough sad thoughts wars rapes t...
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Categories:
paneling, death, hope, humanity, sad,
Form: Free verse
I Met Myself and Turned Away, Refusing To Believe
...i hit my brother’s dab pen and got high so i could play guitar better
instead i saw jesus’s face in wood paneling
like what a god might see before he dies, immortally of course
if i didn’t have...
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Categories:
paneling, drug, mental illness, psychological,
Form: I do not know?
Time Markers
...When I receive old magazines the first thing I seek as I flip through the pages, I find
Are the advertisements that bring to my mind the brands, fads, and trends that found favor in bygone times.
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Categories:
paneling, appreciation, culture, eulogy, history,
Form: Rhyme
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