October Seventeenth Ninety Sixty One
...October seventeenth ninety sixty one ...
Born sixty one years ago,
the follow poem from your bro
transmitted courtesy flagship
named Jacques-Yves Cousteau
constituting countless ones and zeroe...
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Categories:
roadshow, absence, adventure, anniversary, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Anita and My Antique
...I watched as she dusted and sneezed;
'It's worthless, I'm certain,' she wheezed.
I thought I'd be rich -
oh, life is a b.tch!
(My desk got a clean, so I'm pleased...)
written 26th April for Jo...
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Categories:
roadshow, money,
Form: Limerick
Donald Trump Das Fuehrers Braggadocio
...Donald Trump Das Fuehrer's Braggadocio
Wrapped up in the Christmas holiday spirit,
I surmise doth allow
nationally collective obliviousness
to steer ship of state
(these United State...
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Categories:
roadshow, discrimination, imagination, innocence, night,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Antiques Roadshow
...collectible things
tweaks our brains
and pleasure it brings
its odd but still
the antiquing bug
got me to a thrill...
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Categories:
roadshow, adventure, appreciation, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Gaz Choudhry
...Gaz is a class 4.0 wheelchair basketball player,
He saw a roadshow when he was almost a teen,
From the UK Wheelchair Basketball Association,
Having become an amputee aged ten and keen.
He ...
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Categories:
roadshow, basketball, body, health, sports,
Form: Quatrain
Antiques
...My parents would be horrified if I described them antique
With their laughter lines and wrinkles they really are unique
They are getting old now but are invaluable and precious to me
I dread to thin...
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Categories:
roadshow, i love you, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Gsa Roadshow
...Glad those GSA jerks had a grand time
Trouble was it was on my hard-earned dime
I hope they all go to jail
Sans the benefit of bail
Their atrocious song and ...
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Categories:
roadshow, funny,
Form: Limerick
Fogging
...Walk rosie, walk on the serrated thorns;
exiting the blue abyss, shamelessly a baby god climbs
a salt mountain, incantatory, flicks
through: cranberry, cranberry it was the end of beginning,
the wh...
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Categories:
roadshow, art,
Form: ABC
Collective Synthesis
...People who collect marbles also
collect like terms. These people
may collect unemployment in
Florida as well.
Trailing starboard they collect flotsam
stored in their pockets, as they
conve...
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Categories:
roadshow, humor, metaphor, people, water,
Form: Light Verse
Fogging
...Walk rosie, walk on the serrated thorns;
exiting the blue abyss, shamelessly a baby god climbs
a salt mountain, incantatory, flicks
through: cranberry, cranberry it was the end of beginning,
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Categories:
roadshow, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Bayeta *
...an east meets west show
the Navaho laid low-
on western art nouveau
* a baize and handspun wool blanket-widely pictured in Stikley's Arts& Crafts mag 'Craftsman'
c 1900
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Categories:
roadshow, art, people, places
Form: Ekphrasis
One Man's Personal Party....Prose
...The squeaky wheel of a shopping cart
caught me before the morning dew
a tattered figure pushing the limits of both
collecting his pot of gold called aluminum
Gene Pitney blared from a radio
it...
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Categories:
roadshow, life, people, sad, morning,
Form: Free verse