Short Anecdotes Poems

back porch memories
of old front porch anecdotes
adds color to bland...

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grandma's anecdotes
on the back porch in summer
volumes for the mind.......

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anecdotes and jokes
are a way to loosen up.
they change a person's
visage in moments to joy
or flashing consternation....

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Warm sunlight,into perspective
percolates upon pensive portraits.
Anecdotes of the bourgois domestique
commissioned to decorate &please...

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golden
        bells,
        a harp
and silver spoon,
feasts,
frolics
       in myths
      &mysteries:
anecdotes
      lyrics
      &eulogy
a romance
       oblivious
to
everything...

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Friends, let’s share delicious
Food, laughter, anecdotes,
Funny songs, birthday toasts. 
Full glasses clink as the
Family celebrates:
Father is eighty years!
Feel the joy and the love.

September 24, 2016
For contest Pleiades F
Sponsored by Kim Merryman...

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tales told in the wind
          anecdotes of seashell bliss-
          echoes of blue in the sky
fictional sailing
          fleeing beyond eventide-
          ivory silk shades parchment


I chose picture #2

Fives and Sevens Poetry Contest
Joseph May
July 14, 2019...

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An eloquent stutterer he was,
whose anecdotes were luscious and true
he lived in the days of aesthetics,
but had no comeliness in size or stature;

His teachings were unadulterated and void of fallacy
Ipso facto he was condemned to the gallows,
he tasted of the legendary hemlock potion
And died before he lived....

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Lyrics from a song,
A chapter of a book,
A certain scent,
Could be all it took.
A scene in a film,
Lines from a play,
A walk in the park,
On a certain day.
Funny anecdotes,
A time in the past,
An item of clothing,
Having something to last.
Seasons of the year,
A favourite flower,
A beautiful view,
Memories hold that power....

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Johnny Boffo was a comic's comic.
Johnny, JB to his friends,
had the late night crowd in stitches
with a variety of one-liners 
and amusing anecdotes.
After his last set he
left the Comedy Barn
and while crossing the street 
to his motel room
was struck and killed 
by a speeding cattle truck.

They say he died happy; 
but I kinda of doubt it....

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The small things
That do not matter
At that time
Trivial anecdotes
Embellish our lives
Like a play that emotes
Part of our chronicle
That keeps us afloat
During troubled times.

As we recall
Events of the past
Regardless of importance
It brings some balance
With a smile
A moment of nostalgia
And a sense of warmth
A port for an
Emotional storm....

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floral fluidity 
     disclosed 
in fragile beauty

artifacts announced 
                in allegory
a semblance 
     of stilled life 
ornate 
yet commonplace 

enjoyment ancient&modern 
in fragments 
       of familiarity
assemblage of emblems
of 
the everyday
              motifs
anecdotes 
of the incidental 
ostensible&elementary 

inanimates
 to deceive
    the eye....

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You clean, you shop, you stir, you chop;
You add marshmallows to the top.
You cannot stop or all will flop;
The doorbell rings – you smile and hop.

The sweat you mop or oven prop;
With guests, the anecdotes you swap.
A drink you cop but dare not drop
A morsel of your festive crop.

From shop to chop to hop to mop,
The day will pass – and then you’ll plop!

*Happy Thanksgiving Day!...

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What makes him tough? She asked me.
I dared not say, for she is a rounder with glee.
Seriously, she prodded. Please give me an example.
Variety of anecdotes about this thug were more than ample.

However, she is my cousin, and she always goes after the bad.
This Tom is seriously not a nice guy, a thug, a thief and a cad.
I got invited to their wedding the sixteenth of July.
It surprised me although to this day, I have no idea why....

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this moment of fear is actually a moment of fun
for it is here that i realize that i am not the only one

the bravest of the brave always have stories to tell
of how they got up from that spot where they fell

it is then that i am inspired to forge on with my excursion
and let God be my Guide and the Foreman of my next version

my experience will be many....my anecdotes massive
i can then discover My Self....and never again to myself be passive...

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Here's another new year
I wish health and prosperity for all dear
I know nothing bad will happen ,I've no fear
If it happens, I know I'll steer. 

New year resolution I've made
I'll work on past memories to fade
I'll hold no grudge I'll accept what is layed
To remain happy ,this will be of aid. 

May everyone's life end on  a happy note
May all sail happily ,on the life's boat
May this happen and our lives we will dote
May our lives become anecdotes....

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Indianapolis welcomes you.
Navigate, find your place, sailing through
synthetic waterway just for fun.
Off’ring journeys with anecdotes,
carriages, kayaks and pedal boats
worthwhile way to enjoy snow or sun.

We'll park your vehicle, while you fete
with friends, fam'ly, or special date.
Hire out a gondolier; he can hunt 
for local sites, you don't want to miss -
hideaways where you can reminisce,
use Indy’s canal at Riverfront.

written November 29, 2016...

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She said she wasn't the same,
So what do I have to lose,
Besides being rejected by the dame,
Still bereft of the right to choose,
Still the lawyer's feels to pay,
When will justice have its way,
Over the anarchy of the home,
Fight back against the monopoly,
Even when you stand alone,
Anecdotes do not personify,
The enemy lurking in my arms,
Hold fast the flood's approaching,
For their verbal onslaughts will cause you harm,
Prepare to become revolutionary....

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I am that faded black album
Buried deep under your bed
Something new comes along,
You forget all my songs
Lyrics gone from the back of your head

You used to put me on and dance-
Twirl to the cascading notes
But my style is old, 
And my tales have been told,
Bitter anthems and bruised anecdotes

But don't you dare forget the past
Though the future may claim that it's dead
For there once was a time, 
Long before this sad rhyme
When you heard my soft music instead....

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Old wooden pepper grinder’s
thinking of the past.
Dreaming ‘bout its days of glory,
now collecting dust.

It’s got stories, it’s got wisdom
but no one’s there to listen.
It’s feeling rusty, useless and lonely 
somewhere in the kitchen.

Wanting to retell old anecdotes,
 just to be taken into warm hands.
Instead Alzheimer’ s at the door,
saying he wants to be friends.

Old wooden pepper grinder’s
thinking of the past.
Praying to be used again 
before the journey’s end....

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Not again shall I fall a victim of folly,

Or again allow my heart be melancholy.

I shall let loose my fancy roam unroped,

And my dreams wander unstopped.

 

Ideas shall rule my mind,

And all I have shall respite find

In the autonomous flow of ease,

Till I slumber in eternal bliss.

 

Never again shall I follow the dictum of demagogues,

Nor be counseled by empty anecdotes of conceited pedagogues;

I shall let all slither free,

And all ordained to be shall be....

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