Short Berkeley Poems

Berkeley fog
covers the city at dawn -
cool summertime...

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Ideas, opinions 
Lies, truth and deceit,
Multicultural, diverse 
Good or bad,
The world lives on Berkeley Street. 


            W.A CHOLT.  Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2020.

              14/11/20...

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It once sang in Berkeley Square,
So the song goes,
An ode to it written by Keats not in prose,
The lady who had a lamp,
Had its name too,
A fairy tale Anderson told a tale through.
They just sing at night and it’s only the male,
Too woo all the females, Hope migrations fail,
They've created hospitals with this birds name,
So glad to my garden a nightingale came!...

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Bergman Numbers


... there are no uninterest—
ing positive whole numbers—
“because if there were, there would—
be a smallest one, and the—
property of being the—
smallest uninteresting
number would be…be? You see?”

Thanks to Prof. 
--- George Bergman
	  Emer. Prof. Math. 
        UC Berkeley
*Poetry&Mathematics—A square: the number of syllables in a line equals the number of lines....

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Very popular in our country be.
Cannabis, now eaten as candy?

Thai sticks, so much stronger.
Their "high" lasts far longer.

No wonder people act so crazy.
Get out of a room filled with
unholy smokes, so hazy!

Drive through Berkeley, it stinks.
Fresh air puts you, right in the pink!

Get high on love and creation.
Be yourself~ you are the true sensation!


August 29, 2020
6:30pm PST...

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We All Scream for Ice Cream

Growing up in Berkeley
With my father
Was quite an experience

He had weird food tastes
Particularly ice cream
Just strange taste buds 
In his tongue I suppose

He would come home
From the store
With the strangest vice cream flavors
On a hot summer day

But on occasion
He brought home
The basic strawberry,
Vanilla and chocolate

Along with the peppermint
Which was my favorite
Never did get
Pumpkin pie ice cream though....

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