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ONE WAY TO BE REMEMBERED

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At a memorial service for a friend in a park down by the sea
as we remembered her I wondered…how will people remember me?

I imagine most of the people at the memorial…from her friends to her fa...

Categories: shamus, remember,
Form: Rhyme

S For Fun

...Sophistication should always include a spoonful of spotless spontaneity
Shamus shivered, silently seconding Sheila’s sassy sage suggestion....

Categories: shamus, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Alliteration

House of Commons

...Canadian Willie Amos
Was so eager to be famous
To prove he's no prude
He zoomed in the nude
And peed to confound the shamus

26.IV.2!...

Categories: shamus, political,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Shame of Shamus O'Toole

...There was a leprechaun, Shamus O'Toole
On St. Patrick's Day he drank like a fool
His pot o'gold, stolen
Jaw broken and swollen
Brawlin' o'er Guinness with Aiden O'Doul



February 24, 2021
L...

Categories: shamus, drink, holiday,
Form: Limerick

Dr Mccrory

...The old man sat on a bar stool all alone.
Acting like a king holding court on his throne.
While most patrons sat absorbed in their phones;
He spoke to any and all in cheerful tones.

I perked up...

Categories: shamus, age, allegory, character, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Fate Is Sealed

...FATE IS SEALED

This road I've walked before 
I should know it so very well
Because it opened up a door
One that lead straight to hell

 I met a rider upon a dark steed
He asked m...

Categories: shamus, conflict, corruption, evil,
Form: Rhyme

My Nose Is Hard

...Murk Rammer froze as he felt the nuzzle
of a snub-nosed thirty-eight’s deadly muzzle.
Louis The Retch poked it into his back.
“The jig’s up, Rammer. I ain’t cuttin’ no slack.”

Murk had been tri...

Categories: shamus, mystery, , cute,
Form: Rhyme

Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz Dive

...Saul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely the ...

Categories: shamus, humor, murder, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Dog Gone It

...Finns dog just died
And a loyal friend was he
I picked two shovels up
And passed one to McGee

It's body in a box
Was carried just by Finn
As we slowly made the walk
Where the funeral would b...

Categories: shamus, bereavement, christian, death of
Form: Rhyme

So Many Shades of Green

...visitin me aunty Cushla
For the first time in Ballybay
I found meself beside a signpost
An I stopped to find me way.
It was then I spied a little feller
Laid behind a bale of hay
He was prepared to h...

Categories: shamus, funny,
Form: Narrative

Singing In the Shower

...I know of a lass by the name of Kelly McGower 
Who would sing like an angel when she took a shower. 
But when she finished and came out of the rain, 
It seems that her talents would wash down the dra...

Categories: shamus, funny, sweet, home, sound,
Form: Light Verse

Shamus

...Down these mean streets a man must go
  come shine, come rain, come hail, come snow;
a trenchcoat, gun and cigarette,
  with hardboiled charm and gumshoe sweat.
Pink neon signs light up the place...

Categories: shamus, life, lost love, mystery,
Form: I do not know?