Sixty Two Poems - Poems about Sixty Two

Charise Collects Puppies and Birds

...Puppies and birds, they were Clarise’s go-to’s.
She always had her eyes out, she never did snooze.
Fishing them out of crevices, crannies and old boats.
She never brought home llamas, donkeys or g...

ice cream is delivered in the park

...ice cream cones will be delivered by the gazebo in the park.
We saw a large lumbering thing coming at us in the dark.
It was an ice cream cone delivery man in form of a red dragon.
Carrying four i...

the victim of amplified suicide

...she was the victim of amplified suicide
what does that mean? I asked Detective McBride
She tried to hang herself first, he rapidly replied
But the knot in the rope had become untied

She took fi...

Ghosts of Havana: A Letter from the Other Side

...I speak now, not with breath,
But through the bones of history,
Through palms that never bore fruit
Because your embargo starved the soil.

You feared not our weapons—
We had none to match your...

my nightmare

...They had rapidly turned from discussion group to angry mob
Screamers and yellers took the helm, storming the podium.
They expressed hatred for all humans over sixty-two.
Thought they should be sho...

I Have My Grandmas Hands

...I have my grandma’s hands
Polka dotted, wrinkled, silly looking
Skin barely covering the blue veins
There is a snake-like scaly look to them
Plethora of wrinkles and bumps
With a jolt I realize ...

I tell every Kazakh

...Read in Kazakh! If you want to understand me,
Think in Kazakh! If you want to understand me!
If you read and think in Kazakh, my words will reach,
We’ll move toward kinship, like siblings born tog...

Madness

...London City,
Light and pretty
One, nine, sixty-two
A woman we’d all later know,
Was born,
Dreaming black and blue
Her smile, it would curse her world,
Of laughter, love, fear and grief
To kno...

FOUR CUBED

...FOUR CUBED

Four words a line,
Four lines a stanza.
Four of these comprise
Ms. Hawley’s next extravaganza.

Three words won’t satisfy;
Five are too numerous.
And, one more condition,
She’d ...

Don Fell in Love

...Don was heartfelt, honest and sincere
When he fell in love with Miss Lynn McVere
She was flamboyant, redheaded, her ego overblown
Not her! Said his family, you are pure and home-grown!
She is as ...

The Fence

...The sun is high
More joy is nigh
I cannot lie
Why should I sigh
But the neighbor’s fence

We are friends
We see each other’s ends
We have the same trends
We each help when the other bends
W...

Dave Crandall - Third Party Perspective

...Dave Crandall is a fella who is always in tune.
Don't believe it when they say he's crazy as a loon.
He's a vegetarian, so you might not relate
to the curious items that you find on his plate. 

...

luxurious hotel lobby in 1962

...New Orleans’ 1962 ostentatious hotel lobby
extravagant crystal fluted chandeliers
highly polished walnut counter tops
opulent Italian marble floors
plush scarlet velvet cushioned couches
swankly...

September 17, 1862

...(Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862; 2,100 Union dead, 1550 Confederate dead)



the day September seventeenth
	in eighteen sixty-two
found stalks of corn in Maryland
...

Is This Ample Enough

...none of the McCormicks knew which insect had made the crying sounds
odd since usually every McCormick is an expert about thirty-nine things
I know because my mother and her sixty-two sisters are al...

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