Peoria Poems


Out On a Limb

Ok I am going to trot this one out once again
not knowing if it will be better received than
When it flopped in Peoria.

I love to hear people laugh.I love to have a part in making people laugh.Sometimes I get carried
away in that pursuit.

Once while talking on the phone to my oldest sister
and hearing her little giggle I retold a joke
my brother the crass master had told.

Granted it was borderline yet bizarre enough
that it would not offend I believed

You be the judge......Hey Deloris I said did you hear about that guy that died while eating fresh mountain oysters?No,in a voice of concern she said. Yeah,seems the hog drug him through a barbed wire fence............silence.......more silence
Yet still more s....... well you get the picture.

I don't consider myself to be a heathen but then this stuff happens.

Don't know exactly what she found off color about it.Feel free to clue me in.I never asked her about it
as her infinite silence was all the chastising I can handle in that regard.So shoot me a line kids,Set me straight. Should I cull this one for good?
Categories: peoria, mentor, motivation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGloria

A well-known stud in Peoria
Brought lots of women euphoria
But married rather well,
After casting his spell
A gal he fondly called Gloria.

Written January 27, 2022
Categories: peoria, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick


Born

We were born to offer
each other our own plates 
of suffering wounds.
No poultice will do.

Crying is out. Marriage also out-
each with our own insecurities and stubbornness -
two mules going down the same narrow path.

Money weighs heavily like bricks
in your jean pockets 
so you must throw it in the air
and see where it lands.

Your home looks like Circus Vargas
equipped with a pretty girl spinning plates,
clowns making balloon animals,
and two acrobats teetering above
on a thin wire without a net.

I protest as loudly and as often
as wailing babies prevalent
in the bloody air of a local park
in Peoria, Arizona.
Categories: peoria, angst,
Form: Free verse

July 6th

Today is my Birthday, and you are here with me
   
   I do believe you were there the year and day i was born

   for my breath and heart is beating for you are with me

   Today is my Birthday and yes you are.. inside of me

   I would like us to dance taka chance chance chance chance

   Today and everyday is my Birthday everyday you have been in my life

   I believe it was this day in Peoria, Illinois at Methodist Hospital at 11;04 am

   The day I was born, the day I fell in love, the day I took my 1st breath

    the day i cried a tear the day I've always been in love

    Today is my Birthday and you have been here my whole life

    you are here now , i feel complete , I've loved you all my life , I loved

    you since this day....
      
                             ~ Today is Our Birthday ~
Categories: peoria, happy birthday, love,
Form: Free verse
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