Short Massachusetts Poems

For others to appreciate
  —but never understand

(Westborough Massachusetts: April, 2018)...

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In a house in Massachusetts
A wealthy mother of two sits
Her son's in the Sox
Where she has a box
And that's where his sister Sue sits....

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•	Connecticut
•	New Hampshire
•	New York
•	New Jersey
•	Massachusetts
•	Pennsylvania
•	Delaware
•	Virginia
•	North Carolina
•	South Carolina
•	Georgia
•	Rhode Island
•	Maryland

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Late September holds onto the summer
  like that promise you made
    —you can never forget

Late September holds onto the summer
  as shadows fall distant
    —and memory regrets

(Amherst Massachusetts- September, 2013)...

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Late September holds onto the summer,
  like that promise you made,
  —you can never forget

Late September holds onto the summer,
  as shadows fall distant,
   —and memory regrets

(Train: Amherst Massachusetts- September, 2013)...

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The Bee Gees/Gibbs Brothers
   Stayed together so long
They're the undisputed kings
   Of heart-rending pop songs

Three true-blue Britishers
   In America, never to die
With songs like 'Massachusetts'
   They're forever 'Stayin' Alive!'...

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how forcefully must nature state its case for Man to understand the peril he is in?







© Demetrios Trifiatis
    07 January 2018

*Temperature has dropped at an all-time record of -35 Celsius in Berkshire Hills  Massachusetts,  USA....

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~Nancy Kay Lee~
(1712-1752)
Boston, Massachusetts 

Herein lies a lady by the name of Nancy Kay Lee
Who just climbed a very tall tree.
A twig caught up her dress 'round 
And she just fell all the way down.


Dorian Petersen Potter
Ladydp2000
Copyright@2014

10.4.2014...

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Like children, pages
  drift away adolescent, 
  refusing what I offer

Defiant
  in their questions,
  beyond all answers in their parting

Forcing what’s left, to live trapped
  in the abandoned distance 
  between us now

All movement stopped
  and estranged, from the very things
  we used to know

(Worcester Massachusetts: March, 2011)...

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Basketball creator: James Naismith

Designed the game first used a round football
Late 1891 also used two peach crates
Teaching at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts
Kansas Jayhawks' athletic director and coach
Originator of America's beloved national pastime
 Basketball creator: James Naismith

3/26/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr. ©...

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Whilst in Massachusetts,
Amherst to be precise,
We watched the flickering fire flies
As lighting crossed the skies
And thoughts of writings past.

DEAR EMILY

Come a lady 
     walk with me,
Come a dear 
      as poets be,
Trading words
      of rhyming things,
Thoughts of birds
       preening wings
String moments 
      as beads or pearls
In a necklace 
      from other worlds....

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To see any clearer
  I drifted away

From your 
   lies

From your 
  madness

From your paperless
  tray
  
The word forest
   called

For my pen to break 
  free

From the blurred
  introspection

Hovering close to your
  tree

When my vision
  unclouded

A bigger picture
  appeared

In whose distance
  I found

What your emptiness
  feared

(Train In Massachusetts: March, 2015)...

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Under centuries of sediment
Tramped by stalwart feet
And twenty-two layers of blood
Laid down like concrete
From crunching force ambivalent
To this mottled seat

Dangles a shepherding spirit
Bathed in phantom mist
Playing on strings of circumstance
When souls coexist
With delusional flesh taunting once
So violently kissed

Until caressed in the nexus,
Songs resonating
In harmonic tempo profound
Patiently waiting
For the transitional gauntlet
Nature’s creating....

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There are types of young love
  that must be broken apart

For either or both lovers
  to survive

Like alcohol to the inferno
  their temperature gets hotter

Until nothing is left to share 
  except scorched remains

With no net to catch them
  they fall into each other

Tumbling and hurling
  like a flaming ball

A hunger unsated
  devouring their passion
 
Their souls trapped and burning 
   —in the fire they share

(Westborough Massachusetts: April, 2018)...

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If in a bit of fatherly pride I may indulge here
  My 22-year-old son's brought my old age new cheer

Today he just accepted his first full-time position
  Which my wife and I wish him much success in 

By the way, our son -- you should know -- is super brainy
  As shown by his job title, M.I.T. (!) ~ Mgr. in Training







           M.I.T. also stands for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
           which has long been considered the top college in America...

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I check the license plates of cars
Parked all around my block,
Which proves that to New York
So many people still do flock.

Here’s Arizona, Massachusetts,
California, too.
Of course, there’s Pennsylvania
And New Jersey, passing through.

Surprisingly, there’s Kansas,
Also Carolina (North).
I wonder why these people
From their native states set forth.

It’s hard to find a parking place
(For on the street, it’s free),
Especially when out-of-towners
Grab a spot from me!...

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Christmas cards came in today in three’s.
Silvery stars with love from Lu, if you please.
Three-D firehouse popup arrived from two,
Massachusetts retirees, pretty sweet too!
One photo card from my cousin also named Lou.
Three beautiful cards, made Thursday feel fine.
I have to smile because they are all three mine.
Michigan card my favorite by far.
With snowman, love, and a silver star.
So nice to feel love from a poet friend far away,
One I have known less than two years and a day....

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