Deciphering Crossword Puzzles, Cryptograms and Scrabblegrams Once Favorite Pastimes
Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes
Livingsocial at 324 Level Road
circa post high school graduation
found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of time
within familiar four walls of his bedroom.
He preferred solitude versus
interacting with either his father or mother,
practicing perfect aggressive passive posture
whereby one or the other parent hurled curses.
Non-social trademark characteristic
thwarted him
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Categories:
pastimes, 12th grade, angel, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Eternity
Why are days looking like endless lifetimes,
Mistimes of pastimes...
As all I have is a mortal heart...
Foretime the thwart, an impart.
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Categories:
pastimes, extended metaphor, image, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
About Pastimes
About Pastimes
To be a scatterbrain is a blessing and a curse;
Jumping from play to play, immaturity at its worse.
Painting is so gripping while it’s being done,
Reading takes its reader to serious or fun.
Writing verse as it comes and hope that it's enjoyed,
Is a past time to add to the past times employed.
And then there’s the
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Categories:
pastimes, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Pastimes In Old Novato
crawling through tall green grass
making miles of tunnels
in fields all around
a lake, the yearly rain makes
floating on rafts
crafted from grandpa's woodpile
hot brown hills of slick dry grass
slid and sped down
in cardboard boxes
old knotted oak tree
climb up like a ladder
jump into leaves piled high
acorns falling
my childhood pastimes
wonderful memories of home
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Categories:
pastimes, childhood,
Form: Haiku
My Pastimes
Twelve was the number Roger Staubach worn.
Eight was the number Carl Yastrzemski wore.
When they played I needed lots of popcorn
Watching them play was something to adore
They were yesterday’s players which I miss
Today there is so much coverage to watch
I watch sports instead of trading a kiss
Its poetry and sports I’m out of scotch
Baseball has
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Categories:
pastimes, football, sports, write, sports,
Form: Sonnet
Summer Pastimes
Sipping sodas with my sweetie,
Strolling with him hand in hand,
In the warmth of summer evenings
Listening to our favorite band.
We would linger in the moonlight
Out on the porch at my front door.
When I said, “ I must go in now.”
He
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Categories:
pastimes, seasons, summer, summer,
Form: Rhyme