My Pet Poems, First Dog, Blake
...Pet Poems, First Dog, Blake
No matter, of course, how many times I asked,
The answer came, “No!” Thus,
At age 9, at the start of summer, I searched
Our not especially well-kept house and yard
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Categories:
wastebaskets, age, dog, friend, life,
Form: Free verse
Color Outside the Lines
...Color outside the lines
Coloring outside the lines
Not at my school
Nuns frowned on that;
Skirts above the knee
No way
Not at my school;
No gum, no pens,
No make-up
Not allowed-uh-uh
No...
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Categories:
wastebaskets, anger, feelings, growing up,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Cosmic Joke
...A design of
never-ending procreation
with genes that in the end
become petroglyphs on walls
or words in wastebaskets.
Rationalization's for meeting
the Unknown are
all the accumulations for ...
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Categories:
wastebaskets, death, mystery, nature, cancer,
Form: Free verse