April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad shy of
fif...
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Categories:
retooling, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Free verse
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil...
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Categories:
retooling, absence, age, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
CatCH Fish I WHO C EYE-
...eye whom be eye vogon
I
C
eye whem am not catch fish
yet I catch fish, say the Kat fish
pole in hand
I am retooling
While! I am drooling
There is a constant stain in my brain
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Categories:
retooling, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Vogon Poetry
April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
...April 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft uni...
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Categories:
retooling, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Enabled Empathy
...It's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult
I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patria...
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Categories:
retooling, culture, health, humor, identity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
April 9th, 2022 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa Ii
...vi. etching, detailing (ala fresco),
vii. plus trimming living room ceiling,
viii. shingling (while fiddling) on the roof,
ix. tiling the kitchen floor,
x. building a cistern for brethren,
xi. w...
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Categories:
retooling, absence, adventure, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
April 9th 2021 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
...April 9th, 2021 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad more'n six months ago,
...
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Categories:
retooling, absence, angel, april, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
God Is Change
...God Is Change
And the big wheel
dramatically turns
leaving that which was
recently at the top
sliding gracefully to the bottom
and what was once an
awesome potential future
now becomes a ...
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Categories:
retooling, change,
Form: Free verse
God Made Sixteen Bags My Witness
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God made Sixteen Bags My Witness
Written: by Tom Wright
5/7/2018
When loss of my life became a legitimate threat,
The grim reaper was present but I was not alone.
God comforted me fr...
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Categories:
retooling, death, god,
Form: Lyric
What Are We Really Trying To Say Here Or Get a Poetic Life
...This is a poem to those who think thinkfull;
whose thinkwrite, thinkthink, thinkprose, thinkcopy, thinkulate, thinkcujol
as a full member's fool.
My, me, mine contests are the bestest, contestest,...
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Categories:
retooling, abuse, allegory, angst, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The Lusitania (Part One)
...More than twelve hundred souls
Meet their watery grave.
German U-boat patrols
Spark a fatal shockwave.
This echo of the past
Resounds throughout history.
Rousing war unsurpassed,
Deadly shro...
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Categories:
retooling, history, warwar, war,
Form: Ballad