Victorian Christmas Eve
...There is happy ado on the old farmstead as Yuletide draws nigh!
Wondrous things to savor as gales blow and snow begins to fly!
The tempest rages for days - they will surely be snowbound,
But a bla...
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Categories:
venison, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
The Coming Andantes
...you are flying on a hazy dream carpet —
floating up there, above these old streets,
these ancient genuflecting pines and cedars,
rising above the sleeping dead on Broadway,
soaring now through ...
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Categories:
venison, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
A Psalm To Solemnize Pure Tin Forefathers Mothers
...A psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers/mothers...
Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably,
and unwittingly script vitality
and the prologue to Thanksgiving,
(which theme poem initially writte...
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Categories:
venison, adventure, africa, age, america,
Form: Rhyme
Rehashing History: Squanto and the Pilgrims, the First Thanksgiving
...The winter of 1621 in Plymouth was harsh as could be,
The Pilgrims were sick and sorry they'd come,
They missed their warm English beds and their tea.
The still ambulatory shivered and shuffled ab...
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Categories:
venison, history, humor, thanksgiving,
Form: Light Verse
My Favorite Cafe
...Blue skies are cloudy, blanketed in grey,
yet on this muggy, miserable day,
I ride off to my favorite café;
where they serve venison as an entree
and a baked Alaska for dessert; yea!
As ...
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Categories:
venison, animal, fantasy, horse, humorous,
Form: Monorhyme
Close Encounter With Humankind Pt2
...The three coyotes
Watched this all unfold
Waiting for Sam to disappear
They knew they had a half
An hour
Before the OSP would appear
They pounced on Maria
Snarling hungry scarfing her
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Categories:
venison, nature,
Form: Free verse
Victims
...Valentine’s day supper
Village restaurant booked
Vexed diners! We wait for
Venison steak meals but
Violins screeched out six
Viennese waltzes, the
V...
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Categories:
venison, conflict, food,
Form: Verse
Ode To Summer Sausage
...Trouble was caused by love of sausage,
Summer sausage by strict definition,
Which is any sausage loved by masses
That can be kept without refrigeration.
Until a day when a man arrives
Walking in...
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Categories:
venison, food,
Form: Ode
The Dead Doe
...The hunters could not find her
Venison they desired to eat
Then her carcass lay at the edge
Of an open field, next to the deep woods
Written: 4/4/2019
Taken f...
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Categories:
venison, animal,
Form: Free verse
First Day of the Holiday
...Cloudless the sky over beautiful water,
Sunlight at dawn as the day starts to break,
Open the blinds to let in the new day and,
Smile as the sunshine confirms they’re awake.
Croissants for breakf...
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Categories:
venison, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Thou Good and Faithful Friend
...THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL FRIEND
Farewell, thou good and faithful oven mitt.
Thou hast served thy time but now must leave.
But ere thou goest, let us reminisce a bit
About the thi...
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Categories:
venison, food, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Wild Country Abundance
...Wild as ivy vines climbing up pines,
in the outskirts of nature
where mountain lions purr,
my lungs expand like the open land.
Breathing in peace, as rippling as a creek,
watching an eagle sna...
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Categories:
venison, animal, creation, growth, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Principal Clown
...He walks around with his nose pointing upward in the air
With calculating eyes that are so fearful, mouth moving from side to side and a tongue that keeps twisting around the things that are profoun...
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Categories:
venison, break up, business, community,
Form: Narrative
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan Poe
...On the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready to snap if I counted more sheep.
I rose ...
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Categories:
venison, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Trying To Smear a Poor Defenseless Deer With An Archaic Spear
...There once was a ghost who loved the post
He enjoyed the thrill of the periodicals fill
Turning each page of the paper
Geared to those who picked up an honest wage as waiters.
There were all ...
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Categories:
venison, animal, environment, evil, husband,
Form: Rhyme
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