Short Riley Poems

The
op art
illusion-
in colour-filled
leaps.

Nataraja by Bridget Riley...

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Caressing 'Lucille'
'Three O'Clock' in the morning
'Why I Sing The Blues'
I 'Worry, Worry, Worry'
'Darlin You Know I Love You'...

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Mixed
signals,
eye o brain-
may bring migraine
pain

Bridget Riley genre



http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=20978...

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Annus Horribilis until the birth of our Great Grandson, who brought love and joy to everyone.



Riley Beau Brooks, Born 17th December, 2023...

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This just might be a deal breaker,
But I do sound smarter on paper!

A Rambling Righting Riley (Shauna Riley Morrison)

For Linda-Marie's "Quote Me" Contest...

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MODIGLANI

narrowed 

necks

CONSTABLE

locale

landscapes

RILEY

migraine

mosaics


TWINKU a double word distich with integral title...

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Born 1925

The Blues
Reigning king
Riley B. King
A.k.a.: B.B. King
Heals souls.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    January 6, 2010

Written for Raul Moreno’s B.B. King Contest...

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J-oy
A-s
M-an's
E-motion
S-tays
W-ith
H-eart
I-nside
T-o
C-reate
O-ne
M-oment
B-y

R-eally
I-solating
L-ife's
E-rased
Y-esterday

Topic: Poet (James Whitcomb Riley)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Artist s Riley* & Vasarely**
present OpArt for you&me
Our brain sees movement by a trick
but,is it pyschology or artistic

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/bridget-riley
**https://www.wikiart.org/en/victor-vasarely...

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Eye Of A Sooner
By: #1 Fan
1/16/2021

O-mnicompetent
K-een
L-incoln Riley
A-ccomplished
H-ard working
O-ut of this world
M-agnifecant
A-cclaimed

S-witzer
O-utstanding
0-ptimum
N-ever failing
E-lectrifying
R-ecognizable
S-toops...

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Blues tunes B.B.King sung 
Brilliant tunes on guitar
Boyhood played street corners 
Boisterous on Bayou 
Better World In Summit
Band played Jazz melody
Bright Riley than ever 


Pleiades 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May


10/19/2020...

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J-ovial
A-uthor's
M-use
E-mploys
S-ublime

W-ords
H-aving
I-nspiring
T-errific
C-omposition
O-nce
M-essage
B-rings

R-ighteous
I-mpressive
L-ine's
E-xpression
Y-early

Topic: Birthday of poet James Whitcomb Riley (October 07) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Another little bundle of joy
Born today, a baby boy
Riley Beau is so pure and sweet,
His innocence made our hearts beat
Thankful for his safe arrival
And our Granddaughter's survival
All our faces looked content and smiley
As we had all witnessed, the beginning of
THE LIFE OF REILLY...

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I've turned into a self-loathing,
promiscuous attention-seeker,
and you've turned into a drunk,
arrogant, emotionless misogynist. 

Look how far we've come,
thriving without the love of one another.
Look at how we flourish
like the decaying flora of a prize-winning garden.

We were better together....

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PHENOMIMISTA riley appel
hue
  tone
in saturations
dazzling
  & intriquing
focus
  falling
concentrations
   colliding
creating
  coherent
sensations
    continuous
experential
  elaborations
intense
   & dense
spectacular
     simultaneous
contrasting
   proportions
in
perceived
   peculiarities...

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Ready Set Go always moving faster than any other boy your age
Intellagent and to grown up to be only nine your will can't be caged
Loveable sweet and cute as can be
Everyone wants to be as young and free
You my baby my angle on earth


To me you will be always you
Only my baby boy dressed in blue
My  angle since the day of your birth...

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Mrs. Riley the best reader in the universe
Thought she might die of cancer or something worse
She fell and hit her head while dumping her purse
To find her copy of a Genesis Bible verse.

Welcome to heaven! The book worm said.
I am really sorry that you have hit your head.
Here are books by Ted you may not have read.
Don’t take this wrong, she said, but I’m glad I’m dead....

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With all your beautiful moves. 
With all your sequestered wish.
I still fall for you, 
I miss you 
and I love you always.

Never mind the riley sun
Spring is love, our happy time. 
Another day not today, rain shall come
Drops of dew, shades of sun. 
Between peculiar and twisted way
Love shall make a way
and like every previous time, 
I will be with you 
and love you always....

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 Boo Hoo Lincoln
Miracle Man
7-4-2022

 Today Lincoln Riley might be missing O.U.,
for the ship he jumped to is going big time too.
His wish was to be a big fish in a small tank,
but in the big 10 he’ll walk the gang plank.

He showed his true character in the way he left,
taking players and coaches was next to theft.
But everything has a payday or so they say,
I wonder if Southern Cal he will also betray?
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Happy Snappy Ladybug me.
I am as cheerful as you think I ought to be.
I fly brief ways from flower to flower.
Some are tasty, others are sour.

Happy Snappy Ladybug me.
What you get is what you see.
Red back with spots so pretty and black.
I fly from one flower, taste, and promptly fly back.

Happy Snappy Ladybug me. 
It is the life of your human Riley.
Loving the flowers that are freshly washed.
Having a great life until I am squashed....

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As the Mother of all Mothers,
mixes yellow into blue...
Fahrenheit shall rise.
Hence forth, the snow melts...
Brings the ferocious waters.
Ownership nay!
She shall consume all!
Fastidious wench,
be gone again...
with the new season...
of the weddings.


I wrote this Feb. 2005, it is about Mother Nature turning the Earth to Spring and how she is in 
control of us and how hard she is to please, we are at her mercy until June comes and 
summer settles things down.  Judy Riley...

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