How many times has my name been duplicated
perhaps more at least tripled or quadrupled
I check the on line library
Eleven at least Individual Douglas Gillies
I wonder are they all like me
married to young fillies
My wife then decides
she will look on line too
She discovers same name totals
adds up to twenty two
Add middle name Alexander
now my name's unique
Individuality at last
It's a trait I like to seek
I'm in a park and perched upon a bench
is a man he plays guitar
I wonder does he have the skill
to play an Indian sitar
His hair is long and white
his beard is in a plait
Around his neck there is a harp
I wonder how does this all equate
A tiny tambourine on a foot pedal is attached
in every way it seems that we are matched
Like me he even plays a Beatle song
acoustic there is no microphone
Am I looking in a mirror
or perhaps I am a clone
Footnote Harp an abbreviated name for a harmonica
A crowd had gathered outside the malt shop.
Some people had gotten out of the line for their blizzards.
This interested me, so I pushed myself into the crowd.
Nothing to see here! A carnival barker type was barking.
Let me be the judge of that! A woman’s voice sang out.
The crowd doubled, tripled, and quadrupled. We were big now.
I heard a cheer go up from the front, but I could not see anything.
Here he is! Someone yelled. I was thinking king or president.
More cheering. Closer to me now. I could see a tiny bit of the street.
An elephant riding a walking egg walked by.
“Nothing to see here!” the carnival barker said.
Getting it right for the second time.
Qualms, I've had too few to admit to you.
Scruples quadrupled, I've had some doubts as well.
Leaving me squeamish, uneasy, unwell.
I fear my regrets will breed and accrue.
Like palms, qualms are arrayed with spiral heads.
Their tough, frilly spiky fronds need tuning.
And rough scruples, misgivings need pruning,
As the spikes can get in your eyes and beds.
When qualms queue up like guests uninvited,
Confront and challenge them with steely gaze.
Eyeball to eyeball their gawk will erase,
Like gatecrashes they'll leave when confronted.
Qualms only succeed when you let them in.
Nip them in the bud, before they begin.
A crowd had gathered outside the malt shop.
Some people had gotten out of the line for their blizzards.
This interested me, so I pushed myself into the crowd.
Nothing to see here! A carnival barker type was barking.
Let me be the judge of that! A woman’s voice sang out.
The crowd doubled, tripled, and quadrupled. We were big now.
I heard a cheer go up from the front, but I could not see anything.
Here he is! Someone yelled. I was thinking king or president.
More cheering. Closer to me now. I could see a tiny bit of the street.
An elephant riding a walking egg walked by.
“Nothing to see here!” the carnival barker said.
Getting it right for the second time.
would, that there were four of me
the ways that I could pleasure thee
each tentacle to tender tickle
fancied freckles, firm or fickle
one all-at-once massage, divine -
all hands on deck, in grand design
perceptive palms with petting jives
could raise a rash of ‘rotic hives
oh, goosebumps of the finest kind
quadrupled thus to blow your mind
four tens of fingers, fixed just SO
to warm the embers down below
mass touches placed with dermal love
bear moans from zones rare spoken of
pray how could one but NOT adore
a mate like me, (and mine) …
times FOUR?!?
Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, March 16, 2023
Please, mom, I want a pet!
I know no dog or cat, but please, two cute, white mice
Let me get?
At the pet store:
Two white female mice will suffice-
No more.
Mix-up!
Quadrupled twice!
Yup!
Please, mom, I want a pet
Two white female mice will suffice-
Yup. . .
April 23, 2021
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Sponsor: Mohan Chutani
True Story- many years ago
What transpired to a desire
Cos I cared more than a car hired
Felt like torture for I never desired
Melancholy quadrupled cos Even when paired
I could still feel pensive sadness that had already existed expired
Days gone nights ran out with the hope of light at the end of the tunnel my heart praised
Nevertheless He still put a song and I remembered
There once was a banker from Britain
Who sat on a snake and was bitten
But his assets were apprised
To have quadrupled in size
While attending nurses were smitten!
Timothy I. Brumley
Always building cars,
Dodge enjoyed framing grand historical ideas.
Jaguar kept long models noble.
Overdrawn Pontiac quadrupled.
Rare Saturn tested unfair.
Victorious winner xeroxed yet zany.
1
Then praise thy love vouch honour thee,
Thy queen from this romantic tale,
Shall smooth to mellow melting spree
contained within by each detail
Quadrupled by the smile, if not by manner!
Though soften'd by politeness proves,
She'd raise my status, Lord of manor
To please this gent, he thus approves,
The way in which not once I judge
Nor otherwise shall he likely be!
Complacement, nor should she begrudge
This man thy pleasure courting she.
2
Our love shall vouchsafe both as one,
If woeful bridge so separates;
Where parting brief like love begun,
For springs eternal season waits;
It seems inspired to having made us wanton!
Our bliss, be this on earth as these desires,
Should loving her be due to this divine
Whilst caring all the while, should she dismay
Discover that for always she is mine,
When love far much conveys me to assign.
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