As Clean as a Whistle
...As Clean as a Whistle
The park is a dance of colour
as leaves pirouette and waltz
around brazen, undressed trees.
November, and the sun sits weakly
even rather streakily in the sky
while I fo...
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Categories:
vamoosed, dog,
Form: Free verse
Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
...Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shado...
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Categories:
vamoosed, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth,
Form: Rhyme
There's Something to this 'Santa Thing'
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Asked him for the good health I’d missed all year
This week my aches and pains disappear
Stress bombarded me every month, becoming quite severe
But now in Decembe...
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Categories:
vamoosed, christmas, happiness, miracle, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Santa Got Stranded in Florida
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The North Pole life can be so hard.
Poor Santa longed to take a break.
His missus told him, “Off we go
to Florida. It’s for your sake!”
While he lounged by the indoor pool,
she vamoosed with...
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Categories:
vamoosed, love hurts,
Form: Quatrain
THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD Part 2, from THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD
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CONT FROM PART 1 ...
PART 2 THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD
When she was a fully grown woman
she worried much less.
She and her worried parents
cried much less.
Fo...
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Categories:
vamoosed, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Princess of Atlantis
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Written: May 23, 2024
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I call you a Venus-blooded princess
deity related to grace and love
you, alone, lost track of your r...
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Categories:
vamoosed, adventure, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
...Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous ground...
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Categories:
vamoosed, adventure, america, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Dead End Street
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Written: November 08, 2023, For John Lawless Contest
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Quote by Zig Ziglar
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Categories:
vamoosed, analogy, angst, bereavement, dream,
Form: Free verse
Groundhog Day 2022 Or Forty Two Days Since 2021 Winter Solstice Part One
...Already noticeably marked
increase in daylight
yours truly courtesy affected
qua heliotropic phenomenon
finds me noggin gently being tugged
upward and westward ho toward sun
after dark mine tal...
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Categories:
vamoosed, fun, inspiration, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
To Catch a Poem
..."If poems could fly" they'd be "so hard to catch."
"Life hangs by a thread" that's prone to detach.
"A thought flew in" but it didn't stay long.
Music was playing; it escaped to the song.
"T...
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Categories:
vamoosed, dedication, flying, heart, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Vamoosed
...Got a question why did summer vamoose
It just started now we're waving toodle loo
It just ain't right
It's taken flight
Whomever's in charge, you're full of poop...
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Categories:
vamoosed, summer,
Form: Limerick
Trusted Non Trumpeting Flora and Fauna Emerge Out
...Trusted (non Trumpeting) Flora And Fauna Emerge Out...
Of Hibernation To Rejoice Arrival Of Spring 2019
Accordingly, other than
meteorologists plenti schooled
ascertaining onset of temperate ai...
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Categories:
vamoosed, adventure, angel, animal, appreciation,
Form: Lyric
Silent One's Gone Silent
...Mr. Silent has gone silent if you haven't noticed
Perhaps he's just vamoosed to the Ivory Coast
Wherever he be
Tween you and me
Missed he is, a dear friend of mine I boast...
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Categories:
vamoosed, friendship,
Form: Limerick
My Mother's Anger
...As I entered the house
I met fire
I felt heat
her face turned to flames
her eyes, a flame
I realized her fury
I quivered
as if it was Winter
she was sweating
exuding sweat like a Summer's ra...
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Categories:
vamoosed, anger,
Form: Narrative