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Date Posted	PoemTitle	# Views	Form
10/17/2020	Itinerant In Space	441	Quatrain
12/26/2017	The Loch Ness Monster	2437	Quatrain
08/18/2017	Snail, Stretch of Time	1000	Quatrain
08/18/2017	Life Is Fragile As Is Poetry	610	Sonnet
12/05/2016	River Romance	763	Verse
11/25/2016	A Castle In the Sky	1029	Quatrain
11/21/2016	Music That My Grandchildren Play	747	Light Verse
11/11/2016	House Mouse and Titmouse Quarrel	1630	Quatrain
10/03/2016	Rhythms of Literary Art	734	Narrative
10/02/2016	Diagnosis Blubber	1199	Rhyme
09/30/2016	From the Grave	728	Quatrain
06/12/2016	Hello, Jesus, It's Me, Jim	3895	Rhyme
06/11/2016	Same Dirty Dishes	1258	Free verse
05/27/2016	Haiku Glass Objects	1038	Haiku
05/24/2016	Hieroglyphs and Holograms	895	Quatrain
05/22/2016	Purple and Red Hat	1160	Quatrain
03/08/2016	Wolfgang Mozart Paints In Tones	775	Rhyme
03/02/2016	Tiger Cat	1543	Quatrain
03/02/2016	Cyber Family Poetry Soup	880	Quatrain
01/27/2016	Imagination	1384	Quatrain
12/26/2015	What Mom Likes About Christmas: the Day After	821	Quatrain
12/22/2015	A Star Is Born	1283	Quatrain
11/27/2015	Smiling Kingfish	981	Quatrain
11/21/2015	Scarred Hands	964	Quatrain
08/03/2015	The Little Train That Could	2299	Rhyme
07/31/2015	Ringing Bells of Love	837	Rhyme
07/29/2015	The Little Red Devil	1379	Quatrain
07/06/2015	Donut Hole	2886	Quatrain
07/03/2015	Laughter In School	1936	Limerick
06/30/2015	A Poetry Souper On Planet Mars	1445	Quatrain
06/28/2015	Hit Me With Your Best Shot	952	Rhyme
06/28/2015	Altar and Rose Short Version	746	Quatrain
06/23/2015	Lion Without a Mane	1439	Rhyme
06/17/2015	My Precious Stuff	861	Rhyme
06/16/2015	Wolfgang Mozart In Five Lines	941	Quintain (English)
06/12/2015	His All Seeing Eye	847	Quatrain
06/08/2015	Einstein's Relatives	1008	Rhyme
06/08/2015	Advice For New Poets	893	Quatrain
06/05/2015	Multi-Task Joe	1045	Quatrain
08/21/2014	Hypotenuse Cooked My Goose	2029	Quatrain
08/21/2014	For Lack of a Smile	2164	Narrative
08/21/2014	Spiked Heels	1607	Pastoral
04/04/2014	Etatsemaj Format	970	Shape
04/04/2014	Etatsemaj Format	884	Shape
03/16/2014	Grandfather's Clock Original Part Two	1096	Dramatic Verse
03/16/2014	Grandfather's Clock Original Part One	1219	Dramatic Verse
09/29/2013	My Soul	971	Free verse
12/02/2012	Light's Effusion	1274	Rhyme
10/28/2012	Autumn Daunting Goes	1248	Quatrain
10/05/2012	Partly Cloudy Pastiche, Catie	2377	Diamante
10/05/2012	Bio James	1181	Bio
10/04/2012	The Drunken Pen	1146	Free verse
08/19/2012	The Shovel	961	Quatrain
08/10/2012	Hey Kid, Who Did You Say Was Old	1316	Quatrain
07/31/2012	Priceless Treasure	1282	Quatrain
07/31/2012	Family Heirlooms	3774	Quatrain
07/31/2012	On the Ocean Waves	1143	Free verse
03/19/2012	Soaring Around Heaven	1312	Sonnet
03/11/2012	Last Night While Asleep	1114	Quatrain
03/09/2012	Mellow Years	880	Quatrain
01/19/2012	Candidates	891	Rhyme
08/22/2011	Salty Sentinels	1243	Couplet
08/04/2011	Riddle	1016	Quatrain
08/03/2011	Garish Galapagos Turtles	1907	Quatrain
08/02/2011	Now, I Lay Me Down To Sleep	1449	Narrative
04/16/2011	Carefree Etheree	892	Etheree
03/09/2011	My Soul	1346	Free verse
03/09/2011	Empty Chairs - Oklahoma City Bombing	4436	Free verse
03/08/2011	A Child Jabbers Spondees	2308	Quatrain
03/02/2011	Super Bowl	1832	Haiku
02/25/2011	Three Blind Men and a Horse	1831	Quatrain
02/25/2011	Grandfathers Clock Revisited	1322	Prose Poetry
02/23/2011	Stream of Life	1050	Dodoitsu
02/20/2011	The Name Is James	1581	Enclosed Rhyme
02/16/2011	Magnetic Force	2119	Couplet
02/16/2011	Flicker of the Mind	1227	Rhyme
02/10/2011	Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - Second Part	1338	Narrative
02/10/2011	Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - First Part	1023	Narrative
02/10/2011	Websteristic	1028	Light Verse
02/10/2011	Humpty Dumpty Smoked Out	1490	Clerihew
02/08/2011	Tale of Tails	1124	Quatrain
02/07/2011	The French General	1279	Clerihew
02/06/2011	Architects Warning	1140	Rhyme
02/04/2011	Four Fabulous Years In the Key of F	1040	Couplet
02/03/2011	Valentine's Legend - Adaptable	1145	Quatrain
02/02/2011	The Dandelion and My Wife Strike Again	1110	Couplet
02/01/2011	An Altar and a Rose	1154	Quatrain
02/01/2011	Taxes	1697	Limerick
01/26/2011	Eve of Purple Leaves In Deep Space	1175	Rhyme
01/26/2011	Crystal Treasure	984	Narrative
01/25/2011	Finding Jesus	1282	Free verse
01/24/2011	Historic Creature From Jurassic Park	1414	Narrative
01/22/2011	Pluto Downgraded	1152	Narrative
01/22/2011	Have You Seen My Lovely Miss	1124	Ballad
01/21/2011	My Dog Spot	2057	Light Verse
01/21/2011	Dog Prodigy	1127	Quatrain
01/20/2011	A Sunbeam Journey	1189	Quatrain
01/20/2011	A Rooster Crows	1395	Rhyme
01/11/2011	Poet's Narcissus	929	Quatrain
01/10/2011	Mystery of the Shoe	1348	Didactic