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Date PostedPoemTitle# ViewsForm 
10/17/2020 Itinerant In Space 393 Quatrain
12/26/2017 The Loch Ness Monster 2257 Quatrain
08/18/2017 Snail, Stretch of Time 932 Quatrain
08/18/2017 Life Is Fragile As Is Poetry 552 Sonnet
12/05/2016 River Romance 734 Verse
11/25/2016 A Castle In the Sky 994 Quatrain
11/21/2016 Music That My Grandchildren Play 709 Light Verse
11/11/2016 House Mouse and Titmouse Quarrel 1560 Quatrain
10/03/2016 Rhythms of Literary Art 688 Narrative
10/02/2016 Diagnosis Blubber 1109 Rhyme
09/30/2016 From the Grave 699 Quatrain
06/12/2016 Hello, Jesus, It's Me, Jim 3671 Rhyme
06/11/2016 Same Dirty Dishes 1229 Free verse
05/27/2016 Haiku Glass Objects 986 Haiku
05/24/2016 Hieroglyphs and Holograms 832 Quatrain
05/22/2016 Purple and Red Hat 1121 Quatrain
03/08/2016 Wolfgang Mozart Paints In Tones 714 Rhyme
03/02/2016 Tiger Cat 1501 Quatrain
03/02/2016 Cyber Family Poetry Soup 833 Quatrain
01/27/2016 Imagination 1329 Quatrain
12/26/2015 What Mom Likes About Christmas: the Day After 783 Quatrain
12/22/2015 A Star Is Born 1228 Quatrain
11/27/2015 Smiling Kingfish 916 Quatrain
11/21/2015 Scarred Hands 876 Quatrain
08/03/2015 The Little Train That Could 2158 Rhyme
07/31/2015 Ringing Bells of Love 802 Rhyme
07/29/2015 The Little Red Devil 1331 Quatrain
07/06/2015 Donut Hole 2798 Quatrain
07/03/2015 Laughter In School 1892 Limerick
06/30/2015 A Poetry Souper On Planet Mars 1394 Quatrain
06/28/2015 Hit Me With Your Best Shot 916 Rhyme
06/28/2015 Altar and Rose Short Version 712 Quatrain
06/23/2015 Lion Without a Mane 1348 Rhyme
06/17/2015 My Precious Stuff 828 Rhyme
06/16/2015 Wolfgang Mozart In Five Lines 892 Quintain (English)
06/12/2015 His All Seeing Eye 806 Quatrain
06/08/2015 Einstein's Relatives 958 Rhyme
06/08/2015 Advice For New Poets 870 Quatrain
06/05/2015 Multi-Task Joe 990 Quatrain
08/21/2014 Hypotenuse Cooked My Goose 1917 Quatrain
08/21/2014 For Lack of a Smile 2112 Narrative
08/21/2014 Spiked Heels 1554 Pastoral
04/04/2014 Etatsemaj Format 919 Shape
04/04/2014 Etatsemaj Format 827 Shape
03/16/2014 Grandfather's Clock Original Part Two 1042 Dramatic Verse
03/16/2014 Grandfather's Clock Original Part One 1164 Dramatic Verse
09/29/2013 My Soul 940 Free verse
12/02/2012 Light's Effusion 1221 Rhyme
10/28/2012 Autumn Daunting Goes 1203 Quatrain
10/05/2012 Partly Cloudy Pastiche, Catie 2330 Diamante
10/05/2012 Bio James 1144 Bio
10/04/2012 The Drunken Pen 1062 Free verse
08/19/2012 The Shovel 927 Quatrain
08/10/2012 Hey Kid, Who Did You Say Was Old 1249 Quatrain
07/31/2012 Priceless Treasure 1229 Quatrain
07/31/2012 Family Heirlooms 3729 Quatrain
07/31/2012 On the Ocean Waves 1104 Free verse
03/19/2012 Soaring Around Heaven 1236 Sonnet
03/11/2012 Last Night While Asleep 1067 Quatrain
03/09/2012 Mellow Years 825 Quatrain
01/19/2012 Candidates 824 Rhyme
08/22/2011 Salty Sentinels 1203 Couplet
08/04/2011 Riddle 987 Quatrain
08/03/2011 Garish Galapagos Turtles 1855 Quatrain
08/02/2011 Now, I Lay Me Down To Sleep 1420 Narrative
04/16/2011 Carefree Etheree 861 Etheree
03/09/2011 My Soul 1311 Free verse
03/09/2011 Empty Chairs - Oklahoma City Bombing 4347 Free verse
03/08/2011 A Child Jabbers Spondees 2246 Quatrain
03/02/2011 Super Bowl 1777 Haiku
02/25/2011 Three Blind Men and a Horse 1728 Quatrain
02/25/2011 Grandfathers Clock Revisited 1248 Prose Poetry
02/23/2011 Stream of Life 1003 Dodoitsu
02/20/2011 The Name Is James 1527 Enclosed Rhyme
02/16/2011 Magnetic Force 2045 Couplet
02/16/2011 Flicker of the Mind 1180 Rhyme
02/10/2011 Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - Second Part 1264 Narrative
02/10/2011 Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - First Part 978 Narrative
02/10/2011 Websteristic 969 Light Verse
02/10/2011 Humpty Dumpty Smoked Out 1430 Clerihew
02/08/2011 Tale of Tails 1084 Quatrain
02/07/2011 The French General 1224 Clerihew
02/06/2011 Architects Warning 1071 Rhyme
02/04/2011 Four Fabulous Years In the Key of F 1003 Couplet
02/03/2011 Valentine's Legend - Adaptable 1081 Quatrain
02/02/2011 The Dandelion and My Wife Strike Again 1070 Couplet
02/01/2011 An Altar and a Rose 1084 Quatrain
02/01/2011 Taxes 1653 Limerick
01/26/2011 Eve of Purple Leaves In Deep Space 1130 Rhyme
01/26/2011 Crystal Treasure 945 Narrative
01/25/2011 Finding Jesus 1254 Free verse
01/24/2011 Historic Creature From Jurassic Park 1366 Narrative
01/22/2011 Pluto Downgraded 1094 Narrative
01/22/2011 Have You Seen My Lovely Miss 1078 Ballad
01/21/2011 My Dog Spot 2005 Light Verse
01/21/2011 Dog Prodigy 1058 Quatrain
01/20/2011 A Sunbeam Journey 1126 Quatrain
01/20/2011 A Rooster Crows 1324 Rhyme
01/11/2011 Poet's Narcissus 881 Quatrain
01/10/2011 Mystery of the Shoe 1296 Didactic
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Quotes

Quote Left Better to whet your appetite than whet your pants. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment | by James Tate

Quote Left Having gray hair doesn't matter, but having gray-matter matters. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment | by James Tate

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