Short Kansas City Poems

Kansas City girls
laughing and dancing life
with golden long legs....

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quarterback
Patrick Mahomes
Kansas City Chiefs
quarterback
Tom Brady
Tampa Bay Buccaneers...

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It is winter. 
Ta da ta da ta dah
It is snowing. 
Ha ha ha ha ha ha

There were one hundred and seventy car wrecks
in Kansas City yesterday.
I stare at the screen in disbelief 
not knowing what to say....

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There once was a young man from Kansas City
Who considered himself very witty.
For him others wrote a little ditty
"He jokes with bartenders,
snaps his suspenders,
jokester no less, that’s his nitty gritty.”...

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The Kansas City Chiefs will try
To chop the Buccaneers down
But the boss Tom Brady
Isn't messing around
He'll throw more touchdowns
Than the law allows
Snatching out the Chief's
Feathers, making his fans proud...

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Patrick Mahomes
Cutest quarterback in the NFL
Sweetest smile
Darling of Kansas City
Go Chiefs!

Patrck Mahomes
in all kinds of Hy-Vee grocery store ads
Making friends with all of us
Young and old
Go Chiefs!...

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Woo hoo there it is
That brand new cadiz.
The latest, greatest whiz
Out of marketing biz.
It's on most folks list
Straight from known em stiff
With a Kansas city twist
Gotta have a new Cadiz
That's the way it is.
Brand new Cadiz....

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mommy dropped to her knees
right there in the Kansas City airport
pulling her baby into her body
She could never get enough hugging
Her daughter was thrilled to see her
and luckily did not understand how close mommy came
to not ever returning home from Iraq...

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It is fifty-five degrees in Kansas City
a balmy Christmas Day
My bare feet laugh

Glad to be out of fuzzy socks
My toes tap happily against cool bricks
my dog prances beside us

My happy heels
Dancing with my excited soles
We are thrilled with fifty-five!...

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Patrick Mahomes may be world’s nicest guy.
Kansas City shows him off with pride.
Chief’s quarter back hails from Texas, Ty.
Hall of Fame MVP, at  twenty five.
He exudes a joyful mask every day.
Injury does not slow him or delay.
We love him in every single way!...

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Caren
Creative, assertive, respectful, enthusiastic
Painter of Cartoons
Lover of Free Expression,
Who feels spirits, emotions, and distance.
Who fears anger, rage, and violence.
Who would like to give love, joy, and freedom.
Resident of Kansas City
Krutsinger...

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it is Christmas in Kansas City
Patrick Mahomes is taking us to the Super Bowl
We are all Chief’s fans now
Barbeque restaurants are feeding the homeless
There are more of them this year than before
Our famous fountains are blinking in Christmas colors
Jesus peeks in on us....

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August sizzled our eyebrows off this year
However, our barbeque places were in full gear
We ate our ribs, and yelled Kansas City Chiefs!
From the outside, however, there was no relief.
The weather has been brutal, the heat stifling and mean.
It's the worst August this hotspot has ever seen!...

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Quarterback Tom Brady proved he was not too old to play.
He won the Super Bowl for his new team in Tampa Bay.
By a 31-9 score, Brady led the Buccaneers to victory.
The losing team was the Chiefs from Kansas City.
After the results in Super Bowl number fifty-five,
at the age of forty-three, Brady can still thrive.
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The first game was played in California;
LA Coliseum the arena.
Here, you may have a doubt.
The game was not sold out.
This is just some more useless trivia.

The Packers were led by Vince Lombardi.
Hank Stram brought his Chiefs from Kansas City.
In this football showdown
from this West Coast town,
the team from Green Bay won the first trophy....

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Like a nuclear bomb
It is dropped on us with a bam!
Kapow! Kapow!
Everyone I know has it.

It’s a pandemic like no other.
Even the Spanish Flu was not this bad.
Kapow! Kapow!
I am wearing two masks now.

Will they be enough?
I seriously doubt it.
I live in Kansas City.
Right now, the nearest hospital bed is eight hours away.

Kapow! Kapow!...

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Super cold today in Kansas City
Freezing 
No ice
No snow
The air is brittle
Brutally cold

My feet reflect this
My toes are icy
I stare out the window
Knowing how cold the glass is
Staying inside

Warm but not toasty
Slightly chilled
Not tempted to run downtown
and park six miles away 
So the Super Bowl parade
Honoring the KC Chiefs
Marches on without me today...

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Old beat brown truck has stuff sticking every which way out the back.
On sides of pallets he has added to both sides, to try and cram more.
As truck turns I see a rusty refrigerator, wheel barrow, and two bikes.
One of the bikes looks pretty new.
This is an affluent neighborhood for Kansas City.
I hope he did not just pick up some child’s bike in a yard.
That would be too cruel....

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Caren
artist, cartoonist, empath, healer
daughter of an engaging outgoing salesman
lover of research, oddities, and imagination
who feels hopeful, optimism, and joy
who fears snakes in my hair, mouse chewing my toe, angry words
who would like to see world peace, enthusiasm and love
Resident of Kansas City, Kansas
Caren 


Contest: Who Am I
Sponsor: L. Milton Hankins
Written 7-6-2021...

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falling into faerie land was a terrific start
they fed her gooseberry pie and a lemon tart
showed off her poetic skills and raved about her art
took her to court to see the king, which was very smart

do you want us to try to return you to Kansas City?
She stared at the queen who was sweet and enormously pretty.
I’d like to stay here for a bit first, she said, feeling witty.
They were very sweet to her in Faerie Land City....

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Today at two in Kansas City there is an annual meeting
of slave drivers, raw hiders, task masters, micromanagers,
and Simon LeGrees.

I noticed my boss was still hanging around the office at 1:30
And the convention center is twenty-two minutes away.
Aren’t you late for a meeting?  I asked him.
What meeting? He asked me, interested.
No where to go from here
but down.
I pretended 
I was in the throes
of a forgetful moment....

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Kansas City
Fountains of Lights
Beautiful Sunsets
Friendly Natives
Bar-B-Q

Kansas City
Friends galore
Stetson hats
Cultures from around the world
Hallmark cards

Kansas City
Royals
Chiefs
Easy Access Airport
My adopted hometown


Kansas City
Aquarium
Polar Bears and Giraffes
Tigers and Lions 
Zoo Friends

Kansas City
Fountains of Lights
Beautiful people
Welcomed me eleven years ago
My adopted city
Bar-B-Q...

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not a speedway
And yet they are racing
at a hundred miles or more
Down Interstate 635 in Kansas City

I hear them way before I realize what they are
Two race cars. One orange and green
The other purple and black, low and fast.

They are racing on both sides of me.
Sounding like whirring humming bees.
They tear past

I figure they will kill someone without dog ears
Tail lights in three lanes light up
I slow down, expecting to see body parts....

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Painting the mushroom is quite an endeavor
We end up with six faerie volunteers who do it forever
The red is a beautiful color, I think it is enormously clever.
Says a pixie who likes painting with a paint easel lever.

I want to introduce a faerie princess from Kansas City she says.
She is a bit odd, even her name which is Lucille Naomi Inez.
Okay, we agree, but you have to take off that rhinestone fez.
It clashes with the feather she found on the res....

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Kansas City is on fire with love for the Chiefs
I am only one of two people who forgot to wear red today
School has been cancelled for Wednesday.
The mayor called it.
We are blasting fireworks into the sky.
Sad for the 49'ers, but we are aglow with glory.
It has been fifty years since the Chiefs won the Superbowl.
The fireworks, the gun shots, the blasts and whistles 
Popping off last night, and again today.
We are going crazy here.
We are on fire for our Kansas City Chiefs....

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