Pumpernickel
...Dress up this tasty circular bread
with cream cheese, lox, or veggie spread.
A pumpernickel choice with marmalade jelly, just cried out to my empty belly.
There are too many people in this wai...
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Categories:
waiting line, food, funny,
Form: Rhyme
My second letter to the little princess in waiting line
...I am having one usual day, as it is, most of the days
I, a misfit, wandering around, since
the ultrasound and incubator, they are ever invasive
The world with the main theme, and the off topic, o...
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Categories:
waiting line, blessing,
Form: Imagism
Sitting With Koans
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"Sitting with Koans"
Zazen sits zafu'd in the zendo
with the poetic monkey minds
echoing the sound of two hands clapping
producing sound bites bitten like Botticelli repr...
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Categories:
waiting line, muse,
Form: Free verse
Saving Lives
...8/25/21
Either first or last in the waiting line
Continually I ache inside
I'm breaking ties
Over taking sides
Making strides
Day and night
A better way of life
Among changing tides
At m...
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Categories:
waiting line, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Watching Amos Plowing With Horses
...“Howdy Amos”, “Howdy Seth”, without a glance.
Amos t’aint much for words as he stares straight ahead
His gaze as straight as his furrows.
Amos is what you might call a “deep thinker”.
I watch as ...
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Categories:
waiting line, history, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Do We Live Too Long
...Do we live too long?
I have been listening to a program on TV BBC about Health service
which in Britain is said to be too costly because we are living longer?
Longevity should be celebrated and ...
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Categories:
waiting line, africa, blessing, books, break
Form: Blank verse
The Christmas Message
...THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
I heard it on the radio as I awoke that morn:
The message in a simple song that Christ the Lord was born.
I heard it once again that day as I drove in my car
And tried to ...
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Categories:
waiting line, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Hearteater
...With that waiting line
I'm not surprised you're greedy,
On fresh hearts feasting;
Planning a different fate,
Mine won't be served on a plate...
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Categories:
waiting line, heart, scary, visionary,
Form: Tanka
The Waiting Line
...wait over there
please pick a number
excuse me are you next?...
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Categories:
waiting line, life,
Form: Questionku
God Is Waiting For You 11 38pm 11062011
...There is no waiting line
He will not finish your sentences
You can pray anywhere
He listens intently
Lovingly to all that you say
He cares for you like no one else can
He has known you
Lov...
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Categories:
waiting line, caregiving, confusion, depression, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Patience
...Patience
Patience is something I know that I lack,
I’m one waiting line away from a heart attack.
I want immediate satisfaction, immediate result,
I’m running a race, not dancing a waltz.
I’m ...
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Categories:
waiting line, lifeme,
Form: Rhyme
Crooked Canals.
...Crooked canals seem to cancer my minds passages,
They flank my system and the first symptom is anger,
The situation goes from capable to cancelled packages.
Forgotten practices redeem the handled ...
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Categories:
waiting line, death, cancer,
Form: Rhyme