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Purple
...My jeans I’d wear, twirling in the air the cousins, loved those kids; I’d see them hardly ever, flying, laughing, rising. Mother couldn’t understand the wriggling out of the purple dress; nails ......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
memory,
Form:
Narrative
A Dramatic Rottweiler
...A rottweiler with a dramatic flair is a thespian beyond compare He roams through Poughkeepsie as the resident gypsy always laying his emotions bare......
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Robert Gorelick
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
humor,
Form:
Limerick
1962 Christmas Surprise
...too-da-loo Christmas two kids in tow Buffalo grandpa won’t be there left the gifts in Poughkeepsie where faerie lights will not glow 12/1/2021......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
christmas, death,
Form:
Tanka
Happy Ever After
...A silly old man in Poughkeepsie In love with a beautiful gypsy She took him far away On a warm sunny day When he was a little bit tipsy. written October 4, 2021......
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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Poughkeepsie To Highland
...over the Hudson River, its heights my nemesis. I longed to drive and stay alive. Highland on the other side. Mid-Hudson thrill ride for a permitted driver. my heart would pound just looking at ......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
fear,
Form:
Free verse
Death of a Thirsty Man
...I once met a thirsty man from Poughkeepsie--uh, He drank four quarts a day of Diet Pepsi--uh, It was certainly no dry joke The over-saturated bloke Died from an extremely rare case of dys......
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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
humor,
Form:
Limerick
The Happy Wanderer
...I once met a man from Poughkeepsie Who appeared to be rather tipsy Wandering about; Drinking his dark stout, I'm fairly certain he's a gypsy. June 2, 2021......
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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
drink, freedom, humorous, lonely,
Form:
Limerick
Wrinkles In Time
...Like bookends, Grandma and Grandpa — those smiles — only one wears the apron and the music, classical and gypsy I was glowing in their eyes, growing only for one who kept her pride of me, when......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
death,
Form:
Free verse
My Hudson Valley Childhood
..."How sweet to the heart are the scenes of my childhood" Samuel Woodworth, 1785-1842 MY HUDSON VALLEY CHILDHOOD Mother dropped us — we’ve no fear o......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
childhood,
Form:
Terza Rima
You Just Never Know
...One early winter morning I was walking down the street, When a young woman hurriedly strolled past me. With My head down reminiscing , I glanced up to the same woman That had just passed; is now c......
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Marshall Thompson
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
deep,
Form:
Free verse
Poughkeepsie
...Poughkeepsie - Limerick 23/04/2018 There was a hot girl from Poughkeepsie When she was drunk she thought she was tipsy And she danced up a storm Though it was humid and warm And the peop......
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Jeff Kantor
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
funny,
Form:
Limerick
Gypsy
...There once was a young man from Poughkeepsie Who wanted to live life as a gypsy In far land Met rogue band He soon learned such life was very risky.......
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Alfred Berggren
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
humor,
Form:
Limerick
Poughkeepsie
...There once was a man from Poughkeepsie who wanted his fortune told by a gypsy. He sat down in chair, but got up to stare for old gypsy seemed a little bit tipsy.......
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Alfred Berggren
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
humor,
Form:
Limerick
Ibm Town
...IBM Town Dad whisked us away, Mom heavy with babe, Away from relative hands, Two year old's off to IBM lands. It was the machine of opportunity. A place with technical commotion. My Dad lo......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
childhood, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Captain Job Terry
...Don’t you know Job Terry? I thought everybody knew Job Terry My name is Captain Job Terry, my people from Kerry But I a Poughkeepsie Celt. I make a dashing impression, Held down the whaling ......
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Stephen Barry
Categories:
poughkeepsie,
adventure, allusion, celebrity, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
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