No Bigger Than God's Thumb
...One day just like that she began. A little smudge no bigger than God's thumb.
Forgetting old bones and scarred memories she was born one early March.
A lion in a baby carriage roaring and carryin...
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Categories:
perambulator, child,
Form: Narrative
They Kidnapped My Baby Sister
...I was six years old, the year was 1966. Mom left me alone in a plaza
with my one year old sister in a perambulator.
She went inside to do the grocery and asked me to take care
of her while sh...
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Categories:
perambulator, child, fear,
Form: Free verse
My Addingham
...(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)
After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of gre...
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Categories:
perambulator, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Verse Freed To Sequence
...MONOKU SEQUENCE #A
a perambulator arrives - emptiness takes its leave
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a quietness descends - fresher term opens
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Categories:
perambulator, poetry, word play,
Form: Monoku
Verse Freed To Break
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dear john she replies - dipping her pen into tears
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listen to the pause - silence is golden
A tribute to Erik Satie
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the school-bus departs - she eats the advent candy
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on garibaldi's ...
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Categories:
perambulator, poetry, word play,
Form: Monoku
Elevated Thoughts
...The little imp bawled lustily
as it lay in its perambulator
there by the water fountain
in a secluded garden
right in the middle of a concrete jungle,
disturbing my elevated thoughts
that churn...
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Categories:
perambulator, child, cry,
Form: Free verse
The Perambulator
...It squeaked as it slowly rolled out the door
Trundled out the rusty gate
Over the sunken wooden bridge
and onto the sandy sidewalk.
The daily trudge had begun.
Nestled and nurtured within wer...
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Categories:
perambulator, childhood,
Form: I do not know?
Compendium of Broken Monoku
...Monoku is a senryu/haiku with a slight enigmatic flavour written in its earlier as a one line form
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dear john she replies - dipping her pen into tears
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listen to the pause - silence is golden
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Categories:
perambulator, imagery, words,
Form: Monoku
Lament of My Life
...I think I achieved a lot of what I desired,
But failed at my best physical aspiration,
Only dressing myself for ten days admired,
Because I couldn’t overcome agitation.
My parents came over...
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Categories:
perambulator, anti bullying, growing up,
Form: Quatrain
Steering Precision
...For years I've hugged a dream
Not a very lady-like one
But then again
Who said, I am a lady?
Not me!
I want a pile of rustic junk
A few bicycles
A perambulator
A pile of wood
Nails plus ag...
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Categories:
perambulator, inspirational
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Hell You Say
...Hell you say
So tell me really where is hell
Shall I, should I maybe tell
Things are rough in your perambulator
From time of birth, nips like a Gator
At 2 I’d lurk under a shack
Me and the...
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Categories:
perambulator, adventureme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Monoku Sequence #a
...a perambulator arrives - emptiness takes its leave
.
a quietness descends - fresher term opens
.
room-to-let s...
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Categories:
perambulator, life, people, sad
Form: Monoku