Tag: poetically incorrect
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July 28, 2007 06:57 AM EDT --
Blue, blue, a baby blue,
Is a boy dressed in sailor blues;
The word pops from the mouth, like blowing raspberries.
Blue, blue, is a baby boy
Whom we chuck under the chin
To make him laugh. . . .
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May 03, 2006 08:06 AM EDT --
To My Mother
God couldn't be everywhere, and so he created mothers. Anonymous.
A red headed little girl were you
Special to this world
You had to have that special cow's milk
Hair with bouncing . . .
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August 11, 2006 10:54 PM EDT --
Frustration
Searching for answers
Blindness leads the way
Hands outstretched and feeling
Through the crooked maze
At the end of the line
Solutions hoped by the seeker
Remedies of comfort . . .
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March 21, 2007 11:44 PM EDT --
Sniveling sibilance that only a sad sapling could enjoy,
No snappy, insouciant scheming from this scholastic sacrifice,
To wit, this saintly safekeeping shall sail to my sanctuary,
No sarcastic sage shall . . .
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June 12, 2007 06:23 PM EDT --
I waited weeks for them, the goslings;
I waited by the willow as it wept for winter's last hurrah;
I waited by the pond's edge as ripples spread near the edge;
I waited under the footbridge, searching . . .
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July 20, 2007 04:31 AM EDT --
cloud wisps
wedged between
fingers of sunlight, rays
upon a lonesome maple
golden leaves
hangers on
for dear life;
this day
a hush
between
Indian summer
and impending death
of summer
when wisps
become . . .
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November 23, 2007 05:03 PM EST --
To put behind our differences and get on with the business of our marriage;
Was it when the cat died and we reft into two, the summer you left for the mountains to a cabin by yourself, in search . . .
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March 29, 2008 06:46 AM EDT --
Looking back at my marriage,
my parent's marriages,
my sisters' marriages,
other family and friends' marriages . . .
I can see it is not so bad to not be married,
to have . . .
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June 28, 2006 11:33 AM EDT --
When I was in college, when I wanted to write, I would say 'I'm feeling mossy.'
It was an oblique reference to Walt Whitman. More mundanely, I was feeling creative. I made a deliberate . . .
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June 26, 2007 08:26 AM EDT --
Hey You! Want To Hear My Poem?
Well now that I have you here I will go ahead and tell you that it is a trick. Hahahahaha. But you cannot leave, see. Just look at the black print and concentrate. . . .
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July 06, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
Cloudy Days
Every day the clouds are gray
Warm water drips gently down
Relinquishing the anguish . . .
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June 29, 2006 02:17 PM EDT --
Heart aches
Minds race
Temper flares
Angers beware
Eyes hot
Prides sought
Voices collide
Finally subside
Affects sleep
Looks deep
Mirrors . . .
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March 15, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
a day in the life of cat
Mao well lives up to his name.
Mao, I wanna go out.
I let him out the back stairs.
Mao, he whines, less than a
minute later, I wanna come in. It
is cold on the back stairs. . . .
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June 16, 2007 12:17 AM EDT --
Sherry, I have 16 Candles
For You Belong to Me
This is Dedicated to the One I Love
He's the Leader of the Pack
So, Please Mr. Postman
Take Good Care of My Baby
He's Where the Boys Are
And Stand . . .
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June 19, 2007 01:23 AM EDT --
Mrs. Robinson, I love That Thing You Do,
It's your Black Magic that gives me Satisfaction,
Wild Horses cannot bring back Yesterday
Where our love was an Unchained Melody
I Can't Help Falling in . . .
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June 28, 2007 09:51 PM EDT --
I yearn for the pre-dawn, this steamy night; I yearn for the hush, that momentary moment of quiet between gray-scale and the rosy fingers of dawn, slipping over the horizon.
The chickadee chirps his mating . . .
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May 08, 2006 08:19 AM EDT --
Fun and dance in magical spring
Bees hum and Robins sing in green
Wink stars and flowers bloom virgin
Joyous Nature and lovebirds swing.
Taste… Fun and dance, Bees hum
smell… . . .
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May 20, 2006 09:57 PM EDT --
Bed-rest ~ by Pam Freeth
With swollen belly she is put to bed
Two weeks she must stay there they said
Her only job was to grow a life
With this news her husband became the wife
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October 30, 2006 10:14 AM EST --
Regarding Your Love
I deluged you with affection
Bestirred your bathetic soul
There was erotic, sexual passion
Two hearts merged into a whole
I your inamorata
Was ravishing to your . . .
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January 16, 2007 11:45 AM EST --
Winter Vacation
Calendar on the wall hangs January
Dresser full of sweaters and warm socks
Heaters silent motionless ceiling fans twirl
Stepping out the creaking back door
Wonderful . . .
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