The Can'T Keep Still Kid
...The sun is up, and I'm up. Both the sun and I are up, we're up, we're up
Off with my sleeping clothes, off it goes, off it goes,
On with my play clothes, on it goes, on it goes,
Down the steps, I ...
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Categories:
varoom, boat, boy, car, childhood,
Form: Lyric
The Motel Goodrest
...With plates and words in anger flying
My wife and I now deem it best
To cease all our screaming and crying
As I check into the Motel Goodrest
I arrive and plop down for a blissful night
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Categories:
varoom, funny, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Death of a Sweet Gum
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Death Of A Sweet Gum
Miracle Man
3/14/2022
Leaves cascading as if indiscriminately lost,
casualties of nature and multiple nights frost.
Once a coat of many colors on our Sweet Gum T...
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Categories:
varoom, death, tree, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
My Granddaughter
...She sits with her head tilted over her shoulder
The typical sixteen-year-old, or not much older,
Her long brown hair sweeps down to her spine
This sweet graduating granddaughter of mine.
Her eyes...
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Categories:
varoom, graduation, granddaughter,
Form: Light Verse
Summer
...Summer sun bakes the desert hot rocks near sand
Swimming pool, cool decking, green grass welcomes
Warmest season, diving board jump and splash
Smiles, laughter, enjoyment; now lunchtime chips and ...
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Categories:
varoom, family, firework, happy, independence
Form: Rhyme
Dark Driver of a Fast Car--
...Hot, smokey cars calmly grab and old, fast car.
Where is the dusty roads?
The sun flower loudly fights the rain;
O, exhaustion!
The rain runs like a hot skyscraper
Varooom...
Fast, ...
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Categories:
varoom, adventure, analogy, car,
Form: Free verse
Humbly Intrepid Jedi Leader
...I aver, an auspicious dark shadow(s) will zoom
as if birthed, sans starry eyed nebulous debris
across infinite fantastic space/time catacomb
constituting whirled wide web ringing Gaia's in utero
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Categories:
varoom, allegory, business, dance, destiny,
Form: Free verse
If I Would Have
...If I had been a governess, I would have been paid.
Maybe a pittance, maybe a penny, maybe in francs or yen.
Who knows?
If I had been a race car driver, I would have been revered
By my pit crew...
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Categories:
varoom, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dog Day Endure
...Hark! Wispy ghost of Indian summer is in sight,
Fresh on our amorous teenage heels, slow dog day night,
Hot Iowa corn on a cob, fresh with sweet oozing butter.
Makes autumn’s imminent encroachment...
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Categories:
varoom, love, summer,
Form: Rubaiyat
Chocolate Milkshake
...A fine meal we had this evening
Somehow though it was not fufiling
My mind keeps slipping over to the Dairy Queen
Holding a frozen chocolate milkshake taste sensation
Sensual and creamy with a ...
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Categories:
varoom, food, funny,
Form: Free verse