Preferably Poems

To Create My Story

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My story need not involve a person’s glory
though I hope it will be interestingly oratory
and preferably self-explanatory
rather than overly expository.
To titillate my readers, I could even ...

PREFERABLY

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          I do not claim that the days
       are the executioners of the nights,
           but as for me I prefer
      wandering under the light of the stars,
       filtering the...

What a State

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do you think it’s funny
hilarious, haha, a joke

how a billionaire’s money
is enough to make him an expert

on how to put his hands 
around your throat 
until you choke

how your taxes ...

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      I do not claim that the days
   are the executioners of the nights,
       but as for me I prefer
  wandering under the light of the stars,
   filtering the conspicuity of the moo...

Need to Play

...Looking for something to brighten my day
Want to run off and play
Preferably free but willing to pay
Something to take me away

Want to feel happy and gay
Maybe have some tea at the local café
...

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       I do not claim that the days
       be executioners of the nights,

          but as for me I prefer
     wandering under the starlight,

    filtering the conspicuity of the moo...

Indian Pitta

...White Supercilium, black face mask, 
White collar, 
Dark buff head with Black central stripe,
Dark gray stout bill,
Gray eye-ring with white awake – eyeliner,
Buff crowned,
Glossy blue, dark gr...

I Will

...I love you Bluebird, stay inside
I hope that someday we can glide
And soar above the earth below
Take me with you, I will go

Land wherever, I won't care
As long as I am with you there
I have ...

Cousins

...We were children that played, laughed, and cried together
ages that range different by years to decades
we all chattered or complained about each other
family gatherings brought us back together; ...

Thrill to craft poetry with motives simon-pure

...Thrill to craft poetry with motives simon-pure

Analogous to beckoning
think fickle finger of fate doth allure
gussied up with 
windswept orange coiffure
tantalizes like a kid 
in a candy stor...

My very own Fairy

...Mamma, please give me a fairy.
I want someone nice to play with.
Please, mamma, just a tiny one.
Preferably with lots of wit.

Come on, mamma, it can't cost much
We'll play on the porch, she an...

Cotton wool

...It is instinctive,
No parent can help it,
If cotton wool is in the house,
A parent will find it.

When single we don't see a need for it,
But as soon as that little bundle of joy arrives,
It i...

Lapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy place

...Lapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy place

I tip figurative hat to the late Cathy Robertson, longtime (lifetime) Thomas Paine Unitarian Church member, who unwittingly and quite casually made...

Admission

...I see the trees the trees 
Speak to me 
In siloquiscent tremblings
Of shaking branches 
And falling leaves 
So quiet and tense
A psychadelic panacea
Of hallucinegitic properties 
At night I l...

Circling Muses

...Music
especially sacred music
feels round

Not such clear lines
prescribing desecrating marches
needing to move somewhere
noting something
speaking against someone
in StraightWhite privilege...

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• Preferably Quotes