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Oktoberfest

...It’s the time of the year for Oktoberfest,
The nip in the air, the leaves skittering about
A fall festival that rates among the year’s best.

Custom beers and homemade pretzels to tes...

Categories: polkas, fun, holiday, october,
Form: Villanelle

Advice For the Not Dead

...Write a Self-Help book
that works only for you.

Become one with the One,
or at least give it a try.
It doesn’t get any easier after you’re dead.

If you have a nasty personal problem
become ...

Categories: polkas, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Winter Dances

...Winter Dances

Winter dances in stately gavottes -
With children of wintry gardens -
A kiss of frost on their cheeks –
Remnants of summer twirl
Among bright berries
Where cardinals
And Snowbi...

Categories: polkas, bird, dance, garden, winter,
Form: Nonet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Autumn In Georgia

...Catch Fall’s foliage Brasstown Bald —
Highest peak for colorful leaves.
Red squirrel’s cache of acorns, seeds,
pine cones, bird eggs in felled log sleeve.

Serve up Helen’s Oktoberfest
in Alpin...

Categories: polkas, autumn,
Form: Rhyme

The Avenue of Gastronomic Delight

...The Avenue of Gastronomic Delight

Down the broad avenue called Gastronomic Delight
City life gathers when twilight awakens;

In eateries, drive-ins, greasy spoons and taverns – jumpin’ joints j...

Categories: polkas, america, food, international,
Form: Verse

I'M Just Getting Started

...I am just getting started
Wait a little bit
I have seen your blue iris


Do not forget
You promised me
We will go together


For the blue forest
And look for the beehive
In a moonlit nigh...

Categories: polkas, emotions,
Form: Free verse

The Meaty Hun

...As I kept my raised eyes hooked to rivers
A shining swing of swords like the sliced moon
In polkas of blood a dark blue shiver
From red jungles comes up a meaty Hun
______________________________...

Categories: polkas, moon, red, river,
Form: Rhyme

As I Took the Right Turn

...As I took the right turn, lo, the crescent
Like Urdu letters but pink and silken
From two mountains meandering descent
Raw hues of hours dark and blue keep folding


As I kept my raised eyes ho...

Categories: polkas, blue, life,
Form: Sonnet

Dear Deer

...DEAR DEER

                    Dear Deer, I love you.
                  the nice cute pretty creature,
                       as gift of Nature.
                Your alluring appealing eyes
   ...

Categories: polkas, animal, appreciation,
Form: Tanka

The Rise and Fall of the Worlds Greatest Air Rock Band

...As I step through the door
Of my office - Doughnuts Galore
Mildred from behind the counter nods her head at me

I come here every day for a few
Jelly doughnuts and nasty brew
Looking for the pe...

Categories: polkas, funny, humor, irony,
Form: Free verse

Feeding the Ducklings

...My quaint little cottage 
rests by a cool serene aqua
with rights reserved only 
for my prettiest rosy bloom.

Her two little feet walk down-
wobbling like a penguin-
on the rain brushed green...

Categories: polkas, baby, bird, friendship, water,
Form: Free verse

Church Picnics

...Summertime memories of better days
Playing outside way past dark
Bungalo was the community pool
Church picnics at Dutch Hill Park

Sliding boards and old metal swings
A box for the little ones ...

Categories: polkas, childhood, nostalgiadance, old, dance,
Form: Rhyme