Short Extemporaneously Poems

These two dice are now out to you.
And in case you don't know what to do,
you win with a seven
you win with eleven, 
but you don't want a twelve, three, or two.


Composed extemporaneously while working the stick position at a craps table in 
Atlantic City years ago....

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Love poems are written
By better men than I
I am not that outside-your-window
Serenading kind’a guy

My proposal wasn’t offered
Bent down upon one knee
Romantic sonnets I cannot read
I trip up on the word “thee”

But romance is not foreign
In the heart of this old man
Although showing it extemporaneously
May be out of my command

I am hopeful that with three little words
My romantic side can shine through
As I look you straight in the eye
And simply say, “I love you”...

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