I rarely drive now
...I procured a booth at ten fifty-nine
I was shocked the restaurant was open before eleven
Held the door open for the hostess
This gives me a bit of writing time
Cool down opportunity after my thir...
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Categories:
procured, retirement,
Form: Free verse
I Am
...
I Am
I am matter transformed to human shape
Through light energy to the earth`s landsca...
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Categories:
procured, god, life, light, love,
Form: Couplet
A Saint Once Procured for Her Phone
...A saint once procured for her phone
Entirely a new type of tone.
When starting to ring,
The angels would sing,
Direct from the heavenly zone.
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Categories:
procured, angel, faith, heaven, humor,
Form: Limerick
Alphabet Soup
...Alphabet soup
Brain food
Carrying mood
Daring attitude
Elicit creativity
Fudge negativity
Garner expressions
Hold court
Imagination distorts
Jam uncontrollably
Keen lyrically
Love life
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Categories:
procured, fun,
Form: Abecedarian
My Nikon
...Like my innate need for eating
Walking, sleeping, and waking
Photography seemed inborn in me.
My heart and mind could make it free.
Clicking photographs of black and white
With a Click-III, a ca...
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Categories:
procured, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Twilight Zone
...“We may think of freedom, not as the right thing to do, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” ~~Peter Marshall~~
"Need I say this was inspired by the t...
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Categories:
procured, granddaughter, grave, prison,
Form: Narrative
Aunt Maise Searches for an Orange Toilet
...Aunt Maise was a decorator, not well known, but fine.
Her attitude was catchy, her enthusiasm crossed a line.
I loved being around her, and remember spending a day
Where we ran from store to store...
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Categories:
procured, fashion, home,
Form: Rhyme
LET'S RHYME-
...Let’s rhyme as if we can and could
uncaught poet's schnook traced and pushed.
Writing rhymes words fluent posed well N, good
Poet on the end of each sentence a hood and crook
mellow laden ...
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Categories:
procured, analogy, confusion, meaningful, riddle,
Form: Monorhyme
For My Dear - Easy as ABC
...
A ton of hugs is for my dear for whom I care.
Barrels of fun together we both share.
Cookies (mostly chocolate chip) I make or buy,
Donuts too, for he is a sweet-toot...
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Categories:
procured, marriage,
Form: Abecedarian
In Her Life
...IN HER LIFE
In her life
So many days she endured
The pains she procured
Her plans fell through
But nothing came through
The plans of freedom
In her life
She lived in captivity
With ...
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Categories:
procured, courage, faith,
Form: Rhyme
In Her Life
...IN HER LIFE
In her life
So many days she endured
The pains she procured
Her plans fell through
But nothing came through
The plans of freedom
In her life
She lived in captivity
With ...
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Categories:
procured, courage, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Little Girl On the Tube
...A few days it’s been
since I rode the Orange tube
out from Enoch, nothing new.
Amusing myself with literature,
the glue that contends
our oneness.
As I dissolved and fancied myself
uniq...
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Categories:
procured, appreciation, children, fate, life,
Form: Free verse
Greed
...Greed of all kinds, more for power n’ pelf
Drives men to play many a mischief
It enters our world like an invisible elf
Making one demean his esteemed self
Greed is like an uncontr...
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Categories:
procured, character, passion, power,
Form: Rhyme
A Is More Wonderful Than B
...Some topics Ralph wants to survey
So as to salient facts convey,
Many textbooks available,
Quite a few: The Reliable...
Ralph thinks the few 'manageable'
For seen points undeniable:
On How Life...
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Categories:
procured, dark, education, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
A Lucid Dream As a Visitation
...I used to have a lovely mini-dog
who followed me wherever I would go.
Nobody in my family cared for him,
for only I he loved – that Eskimo!
Into my arms he’d leap when I got home
from having w...
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Categories:
procured, dog,
Form: Rhyme
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