San Francisco
...Take me on an awesome drive along the crooked street.
And treat me to a big burrito in the Mission District.
I see no rival to San Francisco where I spent 8 years
of my life as a young adult wit...
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Categories:
trolly, city,
Form: Rhyme
Trafficante
...Star lit skies down seventh ave.
you and I on the Centro cobblestones
dancing for the trolly strolling about
Ybor city cigars stained the air while
Columbian porcelan floors calls me
to p...
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Categories:
trolly, city, romance, wine,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Trolly Dolly
...We went to Aunty Sue’s for tea
my cousin wants to play with me
So I have to play with Cousin Jean
we wash doll clothes till they are clean
then dress the doll and comb her hair
but C...
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Categories:
trolly, angst, childhood, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Willy Milly Dilly
...I know a boy named Willy Wolly Way
Parties all night and sleeps all day.
He is a boozer. He is a shmoozer.
Like a tomcat,he must stray.
He is a layer.He is a player.
I know a boy named Willy Wol...
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Categories:
trolly, anger, betrayal, change, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Latent Halls
...In latent halls, where memories dwell
Mist gathers on a shunted trolly
Abandoned wreckage
A decaying track runs forever
From shrouded heights
Fall unnamed questions
A bell’s toll fades
Resting...
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Categories:
trolly, dark, gothic, life,
Form: Free verse
Thinking Anew
...Old Charleston Charlie is sick of waiting
For all of the haters to stop hating
So is his friend Savannah Sue
She’s fed up with all of the poo
Birmingham Bob recalling Bull’s dogs
And how that hi...
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Categories:
trolly, abuse, addiction, betrayal, change,
Form: Rhyme
Sorry - Me Only
...Well, today has been very jolly,
I have written some poems, golly!
Pity they don't all earn me some lolly
No worries I've got a big trolly
it should have been a big lorry
The times I've had to s...
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Categories:
trolly, humor,
Form: Monorhyme
Living In Brooklyn
...Flatbush . . . Bedford Stuyvesant . . . Saint Jerome's . . .
Our Lady of Good Counsel School . . . The Sisters of Mercy . . . The Franciscan Brothers.
Double features at the Farragut movie on Satur...
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Categories:
trolly, change, childhood, culture, growing
Form: Free verse
Why Me
...So,
There I am
Browsing in a book store
No one around but me for a mile or more.
Suddenly
I feel someone's heavy breath
On the back of my neck
Looking over my shoulder to see what I'm lookin...
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Categories:
trolly, abuse, angst,
Form: Free verse
A Life Once Lost
...Have you seen the cardboard man,
with feet without no shoes.
walking with a shoppin trolly of things he cannot lose.
Belitteling himself for all to see,
a proud man once with family.
walking i...
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Categories:
trolly, life,
Form: Ballad
My Economic Woes Doze .
...The Soup kitchen's queue are in line .
The economy , banjaxed and dyin' .
When Lehmans went bust
The bankers just cussed
So now , " Buddy who can spare a dime " ?.
I called up my banker , by c...
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Categories:
trolly, funny
Form: Limerick
Days Longed To Be Remembered
...Fifty years ago came
to me this morning
days long pass
a June day so cool.
Waking up to musical
sounds of birds singing
to me. All summer
long to freely do
as I pleased.
No cares, no wo...
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Categories:
trolly, nostalgiajune, me, high school,
Form: I do not know?