The Night New York Slept
...It was one solemn, long night,
Tenebrous with the astuteness of perfidy,
And multiple hours before the break of an
Impatient dawn.
Lampposts froze through the pergola of winter.
Limp from exposu...
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Categories:
whizzed, city, new york,
Form: Free verse
Before the Latched Gate
...“Keep knocking as hard as one can and wait patiently before the closed gate is the best way to enter it. But find if it is a gate to perdition or salvation.”- By Poet
On a late evening...
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Categories:
whizzed, angst, confusion, fear, lost,
Form: Free verse
Calm Down Little Bird
...Calm down, little bird. Try not to speak.
You must have a bullet in your beak.
Just let me give this poem a tweak.
Cheer up little bird - forever fly.
Forget about the bullet that whizzed by....
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Categories:
whizzed, bird, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
1066 at the Imagine Inn
..."Ballinger's pride will be the death of him,"
Was the last muttering of the old cyclops before
The poison took over. Never trust unicorn bartenders.
Young Gallimay, the town's token centaur,
W...
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Categories:
whizzed, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Beauty Not on Zoom
...Wild electrification whizzed through the room
It was the celebrity beauty, and not merely on zoom
She had brought her witch hat and flying straw broom
Vah vah voom, vah vah voom, vah vah voom said...
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Categories:
whizzed, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
The Night Before
..."Life is so unpredictable. What we expect may not happen. Life deludes us with a happy beginning but can end up bizarre" - By Poet
‘Twas the night before Christmas, a time eagerly aw...
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Categories:
whizzed, christmas, confusion, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
One more moon
...A moon is moon even for a few days,
Let us thank a roaming stone’s wayward ways.
Too bad it’s too tiny
For naked eyes to see,
Wish, Cosmos has more such ways to amaze.
And yet what may delight
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Categories:
whizzed, moon,
Form: Limerick
An Uneasy Feeling
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Thoughts of confusion were swirling
in my head, and I desperately needed
a quiet place to be,
I headed to the seaside, where I sat,
gazing into the sea.
The calm, still body of water was
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Categories:
whizzed, break up, feelings, grief,
Form: Free verse
Little Miss Muffet
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“Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.”
After a long vacation a little girl ...
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Categories:
whizzed, nursery rhyme,
Form: Narrative
Strong Feelings About Money
...I am married to a man who gives money generously
Not only to me but to every person with their hand out
This used to not be a problem but these days panhandlings is a full-time job.
The panhandler...
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Categories:
whizzed, parents,
Form: Narrative
Be Lightning
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Written: January 01st, 2023
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My diaphanous wallet held the moon,
a curious sensation rose in my chest
pale at night
I stole a
massive...
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Categories:
whizzed, appreciation, encouraging, hope, success,
Form: Free verse
ah, wassailing!
...We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.
It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture post...
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Categories:
whizzed, christmas, holiday, humor, new
Form: Free verse
Santa Needs More Zoom
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After last year slow night ride~after all the millions of miles,
Santa's sled needed a check-up with smiles.
Last year his sled went way too slow,
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Categories:
whizzed, fun, happy, humor, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BC
...Sneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but ma...
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Categories:
whizzed, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form: Narrative
A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking Milton
...Their human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with the credits rolling past
And Raisin said, “That gu...
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Categories:
whizzed, cat, remember,
Form: Narrative
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