A Married Spend Thrift Readjusts
...A Graham used to wealth lavish
And to easy fun The slavish:
In the two had not seen blemish
"Let those who wish it be squeamish!"
Now, it is Graham's white wedding;
He knows where the thing i...
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Categories:
readjusts, care, change, devotion, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Sisyphean Climb
...Each day I climb the fleshy
stalks of your love to perch
outside your castle in the sky.
I watch the currents ebb and flow
as clouds are carried away
downstream. I lay patiently in the
sun's wa...
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Categories:
readjusts, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
The Perfect Shot
...The perfect shot:
Looking up to the sky so blue
The grass is a soft, luminous hue.
Every blade is perfectly cut;
He has every opportunity to sink that putt.
He finds the sweet spot, familiar ...
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Categories:
readjusts, birthday,
Form: Ballad
Angel Wings
...I carve angel wings on the go,
under a sky of twinkling lights.
It's the only art form I know,
creating angels in the snow.
Ascending; Luna moves so slow
giving birth to the long, cold n...
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Categories:
readjusts, angel, beautiful, feelings, imagery,
Form: Triolet
On His Special Day
...The groom sweeps pass the floor,
Like the flood does with her pride.
He matches pass the crowd like a moor,
Examining intensely while on his ride.
He flashes back the day of plan,
When he draft ...
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Categories:
readjusts, celebrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Spaghetti Grandma
...Spaghetti Grandma
She scratches her pulpy ruby nose,
Heaves, and leans her heavy bosom
On the pitchfork, dangerously bending
The prongs over the swollen tomatoes.
Trying not to stare ...
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Categories:
readjusts, childhood, giving, grandmother, voice,
Form: Free verse
Loon Song
...Motor is nudged to life in an arcing motion, arm pulling
cord. Vein-furrowed hands grasp the fishing pole,
slinging bait and tackle beneath one arm. Another
arcing motion, arm casting pole. Bob...
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Categories:
readjusts, childhood, children, emotions, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
A New Day I Guess
...There's something strange up in the sky
It's been days since we've seen it
The clouds look growly and black
Is it possible they'll chase it back
The buffalo enjoy the new grass
The ponds the d...
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Categories:
readjusts, funnyme, me,
Form: Verse