I Need To Reach That Phone
...I need to reach that phone box pleaded a girl at the station.
Many adults walked around her, but no one offered help.
Along came a little boy, a rascal, a neighbor, not a friend, a whelp.
He immed...
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Categories:
stepstool, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Lightbulb Thoughts
...A ceiling lightbulb blew and hark!
I needed to replace it.
For reading in the semi-dark?
I knew I couldn’t face it.
I found the bulbs and had to climb,
While worried about falling,
Up on a st...
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Categories:
stepstool, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
In the Line of Duty
...I got a splinter from the
Laundry basket made of straw.
I banged into the stepstool
So my shin is red and raw.
I knocked a chair right over
And it fell onto my toe.
Another one’s still injur...
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Categories:
stepstool, me,
Form: Rhyme
A Night Letter
...I knew you'd take pleasure in knowing
That I heavily drew myself from the bed,
Feeling for parchment and the familiar cylinder of my pen.
Giving up the rest in favor of curling, inky words,
to un...
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Categories:
stepstool, abuse, break up, dark,
Form: I do not know?
Chandelier
...My parents had a chandelier
When I was growing up,
Above the table in the room
Where company would sup.
Its crystal doodads dangled down
And sparkled in the light,
Creating quite a festive mo...
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Categories:
stepstool, home, light,
Form: Rhyme