Intermezzo
...Intermezzo
I was in Huelva in 1958, a poverty-struck town in Spain
there were Tivoli carrousels and all that
I met a beautiful gipsy girl barefoot in the dust.
We laughed a lot; I don’t know wh...
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Categories:
tivoli, blessing, books, break up,
Form: Sonnet
Swing Sets and Jungle Gyms
...(or swing sets and monkey bars)
A pitch perfect spring day
such as today April 8th, 2022
within quaint hamlet
of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
in close proximity within mind's eye
to Lake Wobe...
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Categories:
tivoli, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Tivoli Deja Vu
...A place called Copenhagen, do you know its song?
Joy and laughter safely ride waves of light.,
and summer days are twenty-five hours long.
Do you still hear the sprocket's cadence and pedals ...
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Categories:
tivoli, friendship love, fruit, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Tivoli Gardens
...It doesn't feel like Disney World
Though it has lots of rides
And food and fun and shops galore
It naturally provides.
Since 1843, it's been
A Copenhagen treat,
A perfect place downtown
For...
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Categories:
tivoli, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Swing Sets and Jungle Gym
...When, while a father with two young girls,
ah charming children indeed
both wrapped around mine middle finger,
whose playful rebukes
this papa did heed
(who wished for a son),
he never did bree...
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Categories:
tivoli, absence, adventure, age, daughter,
Form: Bio
Duty Wotlis Boy
...I can't tell you my address
Imagine your fear when I say...Tivoli
All you see is the inner city
I am linked to death yet I have never killed one
I find it strange no one sees my pain
I was...
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Categories:
tivoli, anger, conflict, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Jamaica Jubilee Years
...Remember it just like yesterday
'Twas the sixth of August, independence day
Manley called the election, Busta took the drive
New nation at UN assembly, Jamaica arrived
Topsy turvy, hurly burly, bric...
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Categories:
tivoli, anniversary, business,
Form: Rhyme
Some People
...Some people
like chocolate
like wine
like spring sale
like tivoli
like confetti
and then other people
like bedbugs
like hiccup
like the song on your mind
like an alarm clock
and the warm r...
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Categories:
tivoli, people
Form: I do not know?