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Joseph Robinette Biden Junior

...Joseph Robinette Biden Junior

The last prescient perspicacious politician, 
who presided at the White House
ran out of office despite victorious landslide win
most Democrats gave their signed, ...

Categories: scranton, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Quidsworth Quibbler

...Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.                                                                                                                    the wandering schooner                                   ...

Categories: scranton, america, humor, patriotic, political,
Form: Clerihew

Who's left but me - in Joe Bidens words

...I know I'm slightly losing it and Jill sees that now too,
So all we can but hope for is to Bluster and to Woo.
What If I sometimes falter with names or something more,
Only Fox is bent on keeping ...

Categories: scranton, celebrity, humor, memory, parody,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom

...Au revoir oh perilous freedom...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.

Ever since the notions
of life, liber...

Categories: scranton, age, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

The Vagabond Whippet

...A vagabond whippet in Scranton PA
Will be your best friend before running away
Neither callous nor rude
He just craves solitude
When open roads call he must always obey

2/27/23...

Categories: scranton, humor,
Form: Limerick

Suffragist

...There once lived a lady in Scranton
Named Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She dared to promote
Women’s right to vote,
‘Tis said she threw many a tantrum.

written January 14, 2...

Categories: scranton, history, humor, voice, woman,
Form: Limerick

Devin's First Deer, Part I

...Devin crunched slowly through the frosted grass
as he made his way down his grandpa’s field,
it was the morning after Thanksgiving
with a chill that was bracing and real.

While most of the stat...

Categories: scranton, adventure, autumn, family, farm,
Form: Narrative

From Trains To Trucks

...most railroad tracks gone
and the trains went to Scranton
its the highway now...

Categories: scranton, travel, work,
Form: Haiku

Beer

...This is the best beer I've ever had. 
Yes, The best beer I've ever had. 
No beer is really bad, but 
This is the best beer I’ve ever had. 
 
Beer’s invention was accidental I’m told. 
Something about...

Categories: scranton, adventure, best friend, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

My Mall Memories

...Wyoming Valley Mall been there the most
even sat in for Santa for a bit
now with stores closing looks more like a ghost
bus stops there with plenty places to sit

the Steam Town Mall in Scranton has ...

Categories: scranton, wife,
Form: Sonnet

In and Out

...A young Shepardflees fascist Italy,
in a boat crossing a tereachorous sea.
His rudimentary education,
ending sheep in Abruzzi, Italy.
His venture, to seek a life of freedom,
on the cold gold gro...

Categories: scranton, allegory
Form: Iambic Pentameter