Sitka Sunset
...Pink and sallow lemonade, marmalade and tangerine…
Explodes the Alaskan expanse - a slice of apple pie.
Apt U.S.A. hurray! My fanfare-fire flowers are serene.
Listen closely to the swoosh, the Si...
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Categories:
rockettes, america, imagery, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Tango Innuendo
...I’m ready for investing in some ballroom real estate.
The music starts at nine o’clock; we’ll get there half past eight.
Be sure to wear your sexy dress. I’ll wear my sexy pants.
The rooftop loung...
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Categories:
rockettes, allegory, dance, romance,
Form: Lyric
Thinking of Dad
...Well, I guess I’m finally that cranky
old Slow Poke: the one who does
25 in a 35—the one who rolls up
his driver’s window, when you pull
alongside with your rock-n-roll
blaring. The one who alw...
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Categories:
rockettes, appreciation, freedom, independence day,
Form: Free verse
Doing Laundry On a Farm In the Fifities
...Grandma Gretchen's in her rocker and she has something to say.
She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely has a lot...
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Categories:
rockettes, age, farm,
Form: Prose
I Tumble On Me Bummo
...Well hello there all my sweet dudes and dudettes
As I write this I contemplate dancing with the Rockettes
However when attempting their famous kicks
This endeavour leaves me in quite a fix...
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Categories:
rockettes, silly,
Form: Limerick
Cameron Diaz
...Herpetologist meets actress (Cameron Diaz).
If he's funny he's me.
South America or Africa (on location).
In a diamond mind.
The protagonists (lovers), the diamonds, the miners and the minders.
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Categories:
rockettes, america, beauty, funny, happiness,
Form: Verse
Poetry Hiding
...Melting mannequins
I’ll pin you to the ground,
dress you in cocktail black
and shiny white heels.
Sashaying syllables on
the catwalk of my pages,
kicking in harmony,
you will be Rockettes.*
©Kat...
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Categories:
rockettes, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse