Lazy Evening on my Porch with My Dogs
...the evening is alive with promise
dogs lie on their porch, loving the breeze
chimes are tinkling in a happy manner
there are two sounds – the air conditioner and crickets
the wind picks up stre...
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Categories:
run up, dog,
Form: Free verse
GRANDPAS PATH
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Our cabin in North Carolina was built by Deborah’s mom and dad in 1983…
It rests on the side of a mountain…nestled in among the trees.
When Deborah’s dad was alive he had a garden terraced off ...
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Categories:
run up, grandfather, memory,
Form: Rhyme
What Was I Thinking, O'Yes
...My arrival landed where I began my flight and journey
Sunny San Diego y e s, I was back and how I missed it
Oh-h-h-h, let me count the ways—rather days spent
in a border town, oh what...
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Categories:
run up, character, love, sweet, sweet
Form: Free verse
The Monster Under The Bed
...I no longer check under the bed for monsters,
I don't run when I turn out the light,
Or hide under my blanket when I hear a noise,
I don't run up the stairs, scared to look behind,
I no longe...
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Categories:
run up, 11th grade, anxiety, childhood,
Form: Free verse
She Smoked
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She smoked
She smoked,
my mother did, a LOT!
I never liked it.
To me she looked like
of those “molls” in
detective magazines,
later on television,
cigarette dangling
from the corner ...
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Categories:
run up, addiction, endurance, mother, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Just Dust
..."It's just dust," he said, kicking the dry ground
With a worn boot,
Toe pointed cowboy style
But with none of the flash.
"This could be grandpa," he said,
Shoulders rounded, eyes to the ground.
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Categories:
run up, family, loss, moving on,
Form: Free verse
sitting on my porch in Kansas
...It is over sixty degrees today
Unusually warm for pre-March Kansas
I sit on my porch, sunbathing
Wearing corduroy slacks, a jacket and tennis shoes
A swift breeze gives my face a bit of a chill
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Categories:
run up, life,
Form: Free verse
It's In Their Nature
...‘Twas the night before Christmas and baby
Liz-Beth cried, crawled, and sat waiting for me.
My police neighbor trains a NARC doggy
Liz sees, does, and sits by her need…daddy.
‘Twas the night be...
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Categories:
run up, allusion, analogy, animal, growing
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Early Morning
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honey rays sunbeams
enter through window
old oak tree's leaves dance
squirrel run up trunk
mate sits on back fence
feel recliner
yorkie silk hair
porcelain cup
forced vent warm air
new...
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Categories:
run up, nature,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
No Stranger To Love
...The cold night air wraps around my shoulders like a moth-eaten shawl.
A rasping rain pelts the bitter sidewalk below.
Visions of what once was flash in and out of the headlights passing by.
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Categories:
run up, heartbreak, heartbroken, imagery, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
a tempest for the almanac
...The evening stars were gone, replaced
by a spreading, ominous purple bruise of cloud.
When the wind rose, in sudden violent
crisscrossing gusts, everything went into motion.
White cabanas shook...
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Categories:
run up, holiday, humor, rain, storm,
Form: Free verse
Infertility
...Be kinder to the tree, they say
Don’t poke or prod or cut at it
Don’t try to break its branches
Don’t run up to attack it
Be kinder to the fish, they say
Be gentle with the guppies
If c...
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Categories:
run up, health, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Barking A Dog
...Barking at the dog
One day the dog got angry
I run up a tree....
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Categories:
run up, character, engagement, funny, perspective,
Form: Senryu
DESERT HAD ME
...DESERT HAD ME
Now ! Sworn by the wind
Toll! Hooked onto the desert
Gathered my thought from thy rays
Deep in my thought wants meditation
Down on kneel wants consolidation
Roses won't wan...
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Categories:
run up, health, life, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Up, up and away
...Heyyy friend, since we always UP to something, I wanna give a tribute to the word UP, because everyday of our life we do something meaningful with the word up.
So with that being said, I wanna know,...
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Categories:
run up, cheer up, life, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
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