Victorian Christmas Past
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Upon a grassy hill, so long ago,
our lovely, old Victorian-style home
was built in eighteen eighty-six, aglow
with cozy rooms and firesides burning bright.
So charming were the win...
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Categories:
rambled, christmas, tribute,
Form: Blank verse
Undeniable
...Met you on Thursday,
'Cause it was the heart day.
You don’t not like so —
Sushi — my type.
For every date, is there anything you’d bite
Sushi body — You must like it, right?
Night-long calls,...
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Categories:
rambled, emotions, goodbye, heartbroken, romantic,
Form: Free verse
A Shining Afterglow
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A Shining Afterglow
we have rambled together
along the Ganges river
just you and me
gazing at each other
we have trodden together
the streets of Bombay
through narrow
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Categories:
rambled, feelings, life, love,
Form: Free verse
A teacher's recurring nightmare
...Today again, I went to go teach, totally unprepared.
And fearing the principal would come observe me had me so scared,
I rambled through the room, floundering and fluttering.
And then a st...
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Categories:
rambled, angst, dream, high school,
Form: Rhyme
Bojangles
...I swore
over and over
and
over and over
Forever
to love her
no matter
the whim
But time
after time
as each siren
would call
I rambled
and left her
my nose
— in the wind
(Dreamsl...
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Categories:
rambled, love,
Form: Rhyme
Library stained red
...The clock chimed twice,
Habitually, I folded my scarlet marked sheets,?
Adjusting my smeared diopter glasses as I glanced at the empty library beneath.?
Empty, no surprise, since the earlier hours...
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Categories:
rambled, absence, horror, lonely, lost
Form: Free verse
After the Party, I Woke up on a Tropical Island
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It being a holiday, with friends, I went to chill out
In a gregarious company, partying was sheer fun
After a heavy booze, my first-time experience,
I fell flat, plunging into deep ...
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Categories:
rambled, appreciation, confusion, dream, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Past Pastime
...Humpty Dumpty lived in make-believe land, like dreamy shadows get long;
And he dwelt in a house near a wall, among merry, crimson, oriole throngs.
He had a figure equally rotund and jolly...
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Categories:
rambled, beauty, fantasy, joy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Sanctuary
...I was a stylish, assertive travel agent, arranging getaways for busy people;
Like sudden getaways of jewel, shooting stars, on ebony nights of upheaval.
I planned calm, exotic, trip itine...
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Categories:
rambled, beach, beauty, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet
HMO Will Only Pay for a Witch Doctor
...We all stood up to let the witch-doctor work
He rambled and cried, and screeched with a jerk
Her HMO would pay for no other service but his
He has a contract with them, and it is a whiz
Other d...
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Categories:
rambled, work,
Form: Rhyme
advice from the front seat
...prim and proper she sits in the back seat
going to a birthday party is always a treat
Her parents were throwing advice her way
She did not care, she was here to play
She knew the birthday girl ...
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Categories:
rambled, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Rambler
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His soul alive when he rambled
Hours and hours upon end
Being alone with mother nature
His one and only true friend
Confined, suffocated between four walls
He needed to roam free
Through th...
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Categories:
rambled, beauty, freedom, identity, nature,
Form: Rhyme
To Make a Long Story Short
...I asked about her family.
She started to say “to make a long story short.
her story went on and on and on
There was a barn, a country road, a duck pond.
It rambled and ambled,
My eyes were scram...
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Categories:
rambled, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Many Words, Many Words
...Whenever I look upon his poems
I wonder: Why so many words today,
words concerning so many things, expressed
so aimlessly as if to meet a deadline?
He must have so drifted, rambled,
this way o...
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Categories:
rambled, anger, spoken word, words,
Form: Free verse
Backdoors of My Town
...I was a whimsical, interior designer, bringing colors and joy into living spaces,
Subtly changing neighborhoods and lives, like vibrant arcs the rainbow traces.
People were as dissimilar as their...
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Categories:
rambled, beauty, fantasy, imagery, life,
Form: Couplet
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