lulls
...It was 64ºf and overcast this morning when Lisa and I started our 5-mile jog to the Harbor and back. We always start our semesters this way. We’re emotionally ready for fall weather and hopefully, a ...
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Categories:
semesters, friendship, humor, morning, school,
Form: Free verse
USA Sells Out on an Ally
...
It is the second night of Passover.
Biden and team, supporting Palestine?
And accusing great Israel of genocide?
Please pass me a tall, glass of cyanide!
Our strongest ally, Israel ...
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Categories:
semesters, america,
Form: Rhyme
Adolescent infatuations never consummated
...Adolescent infatuations...never consummated
Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; ...
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Categories:
semesters, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Til the World Ends--Three Dog Night 1975
...Surfing You Tube, I come upon
“Til The World Ends” by
Three Dog Night. It was a lesser
hit of theirs from 1975, but
it always reminded me of you,
and that time we were
going to up to ...
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Categories:
semesters, love,
Form: Free verse
Summer In Ames
...A voice inside said,
come, come back
to the place where
my college years
started.
Burnt out
I came back
from college
in Cedar Falls
for the summer
to a familiar place,
and I was reborn.
S...
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Categories:
semesters, places,
Form: Free verse
Getting Linkedin With Meaningful Friends of Yore
...While idling away the precious minutes
tapping into the wide whirled web
a smattering of random words and phrases
(in an attempt to jump/kick start
pinteresting material to sink figurative teeth)...
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Categories:
semesters, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Solstice Blues
...'Twas the night before tomorrow
And the morning after that.
Father Time passed by discretely,
Didn’t even tip his hat.
The calendars of bygone years
Stacked up to nothing much.
The women I’d b...
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Categories:
semesters, allegory, betrayal, christmas,
Form: Burlesque
Adjunct Professor
...New semester.
Did my courses run?
Oh yeah, but too many.
Work on my syllabi.
I promise I won’t cry.
The night before class.
I pace the kitchen.
Sending prayers up.
Are you listening;
Plea...
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Categories:
semesters, hope, school, work,
Form: Free verse
Man of No-Esteem No One Wants Me
...i'am not handsome
by any sight of the imagination
not a Billy D. nor a Densel Washington
don't have a job like Warren Buffet or Bill Gates
in fact in my wallet may have the sum of soft money $128...
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Categories:
semesters, absence, cheer up, deep,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
semesters, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Life In Engineering College Iet
...The joyous moments remain even in semesters,
With every night struck in the hostel terrace to see sky full of clusters;
Spending time with roommates and friends is best part,
Jokes during the time...
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Categories:
semesters, career, cool,
Form: Light Verse
Life Is Like a Waterfall
...My life is as the waterfall
No matter the effort I put forth
I continue to fall into the canyon
With strength of hope and prayers
I climb against forces with my head raise to the heavens
As water...
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Categories:
semesters, depression, water, life, water,
Form: Prose Poetry
College Students Shaping My Wings
...COLLEGE STUDENTS SHAPING MY WINGS
"She did this" and "She tore my paper, I’m red mad!"
"Miss, tell her to quit copying my lines!"
Every nail of rampage was tolerable,
as brigh...
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Categories:
semesters, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Scene In Daze
...Can’t keep my mind steady
Paranoid about where I’m headed
Asking me why I changed
I tried not to
But at the time
It seemed inevitable
Leaving spectators to judge my heart
Tell me was it cred...
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Categories:
semesters, adventure, caregiving, life, music,
Form: Lyric
Reminisce
...Walking near the old schoolyard
these ears can hear a child's laughter HARD
Voices of my friends YESTERDAY
Our world was young as we continued to play
Semesters,
to the study hall and BASKETBAL...
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Categories:
semesters, angst, happiness, sad, social,
Form: I do not know?
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