Still Holding My Own
...He took everything of value from me
Except a house with a busted sink
He thought I was screwed
With the denim divorce blues
He wanted to bankrupt dreams
But little did he know
Starting over i...
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Categories:
remodeling, appreciation, art, break up,
Form: Limerick
Halcyon
..."Halcyon moments are privileges for the destitute.", by the poet
The nectarous voices are whispering bye,
as seasons substitute one for the other,
remodeling landscapes harmoniously,...
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Categories:
remodeling, beautiful, blessing, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Scouring Self-Loathing
...Evict me from this grimy house
My son asked me what self-loathing is
His home still occupied with laughter
I was taken aback by his cleanliness
I told him it gathers like dust over time
Sweep m...
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Categories:
remodeling, bible, depression, home, house,
Form: Free verse
Remodeling
...Get out your sponges, stippling brushes and pens,
It’s time for makeover-Monday-night to begin.
Think Winky Lux, L’Oréal, Urban Decay,
Maybelline, Armani and Fabergé
It’s a black magic realm wh...
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Categories:
remodeling, celebration, color, creation, fun,
Form: Free verse
I Know Who She Is
...She lowers her legs down -
the woman.
I try to recall a name, three come to mind, they don’t fit
with the blue flowers on her inked ankles,
Alpine Gentians I think,
they ring around slim ceramic...
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Categories:
remodeling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Have a Childhood Home
...The basement I was born in
is now a walk-down bistro.
I was told about the new use,
try to imagine it
as a remodeling of that old place.
I dream now of yellow caterpillars on green leaves,
an...
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Categories:
remodeling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
She Wins
...She keeps a loaded barb
in her pocket book.
She once found an unused finger,
and has been thrusting it
at hapless men ever since.
She loves TMZ and Nancy Grace.
She sells space to cel...
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Categories:
remodeling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Watching the Henhouse
...Once upon Trump time,
Free-range,
organic,
totally uncaged hens
brown
and black
and even white
and all things in-between
prepared to vote for more green climate health
growing indoor/outdoor...
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Categories:
remodeling, betrayal, children, community, conflict,
Form: Political Verse
Who Will Be Calling the Shots
...It’s a swill no one interrupts—
A pill that consumes and corrupts
Our honor's been jailed
And truth’s will is impaled
As the blood PAC tempest erupts
Author's note: Many of the super-rich ...
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Categories:
remodeling, betrayal, corruption, lust, money,
Form: Limerick
True Story
...HE DID WHAT??????????
I got a call from my grandson
whose remodeling his "new home"
He said it's big and wide and spacious
And it even has a dome!
Fancy that it's full of marble
and he...
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Categories:
remodeling, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Pretender
...In less than 12 hours I will be starting a new job. The first job I've had other than working for myself doing remodeling for years. Ever since I fell off a roof breaking my hip in two places and hyp...
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Categories:
remodeling, anxiety, conflict, confusion, drug,
Form: Free verse
Saving a Marriage
...It's a curiosity to me
how we are so alike,
yet, so different in this manner.
I could never survive in your union,
my soul craves a more intimate bond.
You want things to change, and
need a s...
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Categories:
remodeling, divorce, friend, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
A Mirrored Wall
...We're going to get a mirror
Twenty-two by sixty-eight
It will be hung upon the wall
Where we get our old plates
Not because we want to do this
No_another reason
We need to cover a mista...
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Categories:
remodeling, funny, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Depressed
...I feel the agony of your anguish,
The pulsing pain that now persists
I hear distant calls of your distress
And hear tell your tears of torment
Hold my hand and hear
The words I write
Modest but me...
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Categories:
remodeling, absence, betrayal, boyfriend, break
Form: Rhyme
Frankly Yours
...lop.
Lose his number,
as it seems to be...
you were a dirty secret.
His "sister" likely a wife,
don't wreck her life...
just walk away.
His phone neither broken,
nor is it hid...
you naive kid.
He is not shy,
simply attempting to be shy...
"remodeling" a tricky lie.
His homeT you won't see,
gather what remains of your dignity...
flee this deception.
Focus upon your work,
be a brilliant mother...
eventually you'll find another....
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Categories:
remodeling, betrayal, boyfriend, imagination, mentor,
Form: Free verse
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