Blue cheese and old pickles
...
I shudder while peering at sepia photographs,
showing visits to my maiden Aunt Hilda’s house.
Even though I was very young
it was clear she didn’t tolerate children.
I was to be ‘Seen and not...
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Categories:
varicose, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse
Swimming in Grief
...It is as if cloudy eyes forecast rain
And the darkest heartache
Bleeds grief like varicose veins
All blue and distorted with pain
Hope is aborted and sadness
Is a black freight train of thought...
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Categories:
varicose, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Petals of Pain
...Turquoise tears stain my face
Like violet varicose veins
Stains of sentimental sensuality
Wrapped in white fears and black feathers
For love has fuschia flown away
Ruining reverie’s red roses...
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Categories:
varicose, angst, art, betrayal, black
Form: Free verse
FROMAGE BADINAGE
...FROMAGE BADINAGE
Some cheeses improve with age
But, in danger of being verbose
Just serve me plain and mature
Yellow, without that thick rind
And tastier on the tongue, I find
Not fancy, wit...
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Categories:
varicose, food,
Form: Rhyme
Ironing
...The afternoon sunlight filtered through her window drapes
revealing each age line molded to her face
alone in the dusky shadows working in her measured way
a basket of clothes at her feet
one b...
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Categories:
varicose, love,
Form: Free verse
Skip-It
...Ella was an old woman
Who wanted to learn to skip
She held tightly to the rope
So she would not lose her grip
Tossing the rope over her head
That's when everything went awry
Her face went ext...
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Categories:
varicose, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ecchymosis
...inflamed by its sputtering,
cavity muttering-
opened by oaken and metal frame fluttering,
lapsing from pavement and pierced into meat.
uttered uncomfortably, aortas ushering,
sizing in varicos...
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Categories:
varicose, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Of Sallow Pallor
...Trust is an oak tree with shallow roots.
so very treacherous in windy weather.
I feel as though I'm glued to the floor;
pinned like a moth to an insect display.
I wish to leave this horrible ev...
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Categories:
varicose, age, dark, death, funeral,
Form: Imagism
I Wax Poetic As Lifeblood Imperceptibly Doth Wane
...I wax poetic as lifeblood imperceptibly doth wane
Mine body electric analogous
to Google map pronounced
with arteries and countless varicose vein
visible popping blood vessels
leeches have...
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Categories:
varicose, adventure, anxiety, body, character,
Form: Rhyme
Behold the Workings
...A spider thin calligraphy, a varicose script
upon the shallow sheen of mortality.
Are these the genetics of a divine act
arriving as green stems,
weeds and blooms all in a tangle?
A scratchy n...
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Categories:
varicose, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Hope
...They stand erect on the hill side listening to a jubilant ceremony saturated in the wind and the lake side spilling waves of hope over amplified sound while the residue of life scampers all over the ...
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Categories:
varicose, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Come To the Hairy Leg Ball
...Come old and young, come big, little, wild and tall
Come down to the Legion, join the Hairy Leg Ball
Bring your varicose veins, please do not stall
Bring your grossest. hairiest ugliest furriest l...
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Categories:
varicose, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Place of Respite
...Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes
and birds of the air have nests,
but the Son of Man has no place
to lay his head.” Matthew 8:20 NIV
PLACE OF RESPITE
Cheek-tinge of pink daw...
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Categories:
varicose, bird, christian, color, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Varicose
...You're so varicose vein,
Youth is gone again,
I suppose I'm still lucky,
I found my glasses, you see,
That's as good as it gets today,
Let's hear it for oldies, yah!...
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Categories:
varicose, age, allusion, grandmother, humor,
Form: Free verse
Pensioners, Come Tomorrow
...What can it be if not ignited tension
Among retirees waiting for their pension
That weakly caters for their weekly ration
Their numerous legs, hundreds of suspension:
A carbon copy of the crimina...
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Categories:
varicose, anger, fear, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme
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