Our Amazing Dept.of Motor Vehicles
An arcane fact in the paper this day
About our DMV and it’s mysterious way
Seems for whatever you want there’s a questionnaire
And driver's license form requires color of hair
And not among the allowed choices is my brown-turning grey
Yet…(wait for it) …(wait for it)
Purple is absolutely allowable today
Thinking back o’er the past pulls my face to a frown
Purple hair, (at least in my experience) was…
(wait for it) …(wait..for…it)
Only worn by a clown!
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Why dreams?
Why dreams? …
Why not
soft surcease instead?
Why disturbing dreams?
Why not
Nocturnal bliss instead?
Why such puzzling dreams
That wakes one then
Disappears from one's head?
Why scary dreams? …
That causes one's head
To toss on one's bed?
Why not dream
Of flying…soaring…
In stead of being led
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Chasin' the wind
A promise is….
Something fated to be broken
A wave upon the shore
Silence broken by burst balloon
Reverie rent by rap upon the door
A promise …so very hard to keep
A pledge… so wafer thin
A promise is…a due. but unpaid debt
While still kept…A yet uncommitted sin
And no matter how hard it tis to keep
Resolve slips thru’ cracks e’er so thin
As well as you might try
To keep from breaking a promise (for most)
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Forget Me... Forget Me Not
Will you miss me
When I’m gone? …
I really rather
Doubt it.
Will you miss
What used to be
Once you’ve gone
A while without me?
Will you miss my words
My painful prose
My labored rhymes
I tried to pose?
Or will you even
Know I’ve gone
And if so, will you
Even care?
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Never...Ever be
If you’ve lost a child
You’ve lost a part of your heart
And you’ll never, ever
Be quite the same again
You will be forever searching
Each and every young face
For the rest of your life…
And perhaps even still longer then
You’ll still have the same name
Perhaps Live in the same place
you’ll never stop hoping
To somehow again see her face
But there’s one sad fact
On which you can depend
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cat in the window, Pug on the rug
Lazy cat on the windowsill
Watching curiously
The people passing by
Lazy cat on the windowsill
Seems much more happy
Than you and I
Sleeping puppy lying in the sun
Feet in the air
not a care in the world
Sleeping and dreaming
Puppy’s only concern is:
‘How to catch that squirrel’
Lazy cat wondering
where the people
are hurrying to
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Dream of fog and mist (if you can)
If you can…
Dream of beaches
Dream of fog
that slides ashore
And If you can…
Learn what it teaches
Before the fog returns
To the sea once more
Dream of yardarms…
Of dripping rigging
Of treasure chests
Just ripe for digging
Dream of islands
With crystal sand
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I'm Usually Happy...Tonight Not So Much
Not the man I used
to be…No more trust…
or faith
Rests inside of me
A bitter man
I’ve come to be
Devoid of faith
or charity
An empty vessel
A hollow shell…
poisonous as
A tainted well
A blank canvas
A sterile page
A muted man
of monstrous rage
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Marriage... fixed in time
With gathering wonder
I take within my eye
an ocean of diamonds
And rainbows that hold up the sky
Cliffs that stand sentinel
With feet in the sand
Time-wizened boundary
Between sea and the land
Mist is the icing
Frosting the wake
Of waves shattering the glassy
Silence as they break
Fog rides the tide in
With buttery grace
Then steals out again
To it’s hiding place
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Online Anonymity
The anonymity of Online poetry…
Is a blessing in disguise
No one knows the size of our nose
Or the color of our eyes
Whether we’re easy going…
Laid back types…or stuffy
Whether we’re a little overweight
Or better said, “a little fluffy”
We can write and post, cry and whine
Be meek or boast, be dull or shine
Let our artistic side show
Of which few acquaintances know
Thanks to the online anonymity …
you can expose yourself shamelessly
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