Author: cfblack
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a holiday party poem
Something at the holiday party didn’t agree with your stomach. Maybe, it was the store bought cheese dip in the fondue pot, or Costco Swedish meatballs boiling in a bottle barbeque sauce or The fancy triangles of deli chicken salad on crustless white bread. Whatever it was, now you find yourself waiting in line to…
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Tanka for a drizzly morning
up early reading fresh coffee in the next room peanut butter toast need to get up from my chair before I fall back asleep 11-15-22
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Dear America
Next week is Thanksgiving And I believe words that rhyme Should have similar meanings, but English language professionals won’t listen to me. Even though cobble and gobble share five letters They have little in common. To push my false belief and narrative I am forced to run for President in 2024. The Russians and Saudis…
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Brrrr
While she sleeps You catch up on messages and communications with friends, Prepare the coffee pot And count out your vitamins for the morning The bottom of your computer screen says 4:04 am, 35 and clear You didn’t move South for this 11-14-22
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autumn haiku
my Dad’s grey hat waits on a hook behind the door to keep cold at bay 11-14-22
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Hoosier in the land of cotton haiku
nip in morning air thoughts of home six states away close as memories 11-13-22
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Nicole’s one night stand
rain came knocking on windows in the darkness bending trees, tossing limbs in the street shaking the last gold from trees briefly floating on water until it disappears 11-11-22
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Because I wasn’t paying attention
because I wasn’t paying attention I set my favorite coffee cup down on thin air because I wasn’t paying attention sipping morning coffee will never be the same because I wasn’t paying attention I sweep shards of fired clay to throw away 11-7-22
