A Poet in Disguise
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I am turning half of my garage into an office space so I will have more room to scatter my unorganized thoughts into even bigger piles. Of course, my neighbor had to mosey on over to see just what ...
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Categories:
turtleneck, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Propitiation
...I had lunch with Randy, between classes today. It was a perfect day. The sky was an infinite, capri blue, the wind was stirring the environment, clouds were wispy and on high - in the fast lane where...
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Categories:
turtleneck, friendship, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Sage Brown
...Peter is joining us for lunch in the cafeteria. I met him on a crowded Saturday morning at a coffee shop. He’s from the flammable, paper-dry, sagebrush hills of Malibu and grew up overlooking the haz...
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Categories:
turtleneck, boy, friendship, fun, school,
Form: Free verse
An Important Man
...Lisa’s dad has a visitor from out of town - a “very important man.” He came early. He was dressed casually, in slacks, and a jacket over a mock-turtleneck. He was genial, behind tortoiseshell glasses...
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Categories:
turtleneck, business, family, feelings, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
The Polar Vortex
...I check the weather on my phone
Before I head outside.
My jacket choices such a glance
Does helpfully provide.
For weeks, my trusty fleece it’s been,
With turtleneck below,
A sweatshirt somet...
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Categories:
turtleneck, weather,
Form: Rhyme
A Scarf
...I always thought a scarf was simply
Meant to warm your neck
And wore one only when I set out
On a winter trek.
But one day, having left mine home,
Just walking several blocks
I shivered from ...
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Categories:
turtleneck, clothes, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Riveting Thread
...Riveting Thread
Riveting
designs of antiquitity
Recovered ruins of the distant past
Mix and match with modern taste
Adaptations and variations
Cropped tops
High waisted pants
Shoulde...
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Categories:
turtleneck, age, culture, flower, hair,
Form: Free verse
I Simply Forgot
...I forgot to share
I forgot to show
I forgot what to wear
I forgot where to go
I forgot my keys
I forgot my purse
It’s 90 degrees
In a turtleneck shirt
I forgot what to bring
I forgot wha...
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Categories:
turtleneck, how i feel,
Form: I do not know?
Sariputra and Void
...Once Sariputra was attending a sort of book event: a dozen of young writers, men and women, met up on Wednesday of every week and read each other texts upon an actual literature. Sitting across a ver...
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Categories:
turtleneck, beauty, humor, literature, writing,
Form: Narrative
Up To My Neck
...I love to wear a turtleneck,
A boat neck or a cowl
But offer me a V-neck
And I guarantee a scowl.
A scoop’s a possibility
And I will sport a crew
Yet I cannot explain just why
A V-neck will ...
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Categories:
turtleneck, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
Alec the Czech
...I met a Czech now living in Quebec
Very handsome in crisp turtleneck
He tells a sad story about a shipwreck
But now has a highfalutin job here in high tech
Alec loves to strut muscles in a crew...
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Categories:
turtleneck, adventure, character, crush, dance,
Form: Monorhyme
Navy Turtleneck
...He wore a navy turtleneck
And man, he looked so cute,
An observation, I believe,
Nobody would dispute.
I can’t recall my outfit -
Don’t know if it factored in -
But on that night, our lives...
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Categories:
turtleneck, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Field of Vampire Dreams
...Nine on each vampire team
all eighteen clones of Bela Lugosi it seemed
one up at bat turning into one
flying super fast making a home run,
The umpire vampires would always call out safe
not wa...
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Categories:
turtleneck, baseball, gothic, humor,
Form: Free verse
Checklist
...Here’s a little checklist
If you think you’re getting old.
Check off fewer than a couple
And perhaps you’ll be consoled.
Are you losing hair or finding it
In places unexpected?
Do you crave a...
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Categories:
turtleneck, age, old,
Form: Rhyme
Without Benefit of Wimple
...Covey of nuns
without benefit of wimple
graciously attired
sport coat, turtleneck, skirt
scurry through the airport
iPads swinging
unaware the turtleneck
is their Roman collar.
Do...
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Categories:
turtleneck, change,
Form: Blank verse
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