Category: to a prompt
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Khamsin Kelpi
mischievous breeze strolls by shapeshifts your desire with kenspeckled hips in a flowered caftan you say sand is in your eye and look away embarrassed 5-31-22
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Diego’s wife
a poem written to the prompt: Ashes. She hoped her exit would be joyful She hoped she’d never return She patiently waits at home on a shelf Because they will not let her leave He swallowed a mouthful of ashes Gathered the rest in red silk sash Placed them in an pre-Columbian urn And made…
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Blue
Picasso paints a blue guitar, Blue flowers, blue ladies, an old man with a brown guitar Neck bent as if broken against a blue background Jared declares love is like living in a blue Delft porcelain cup Blue sapphires and bright diamonds on a blue couch, Pretending you were born with blue blood Carry a…
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Irreverent poem written from a prompt
12/14 – See and Hear ‘Teaching the Deaf to See’ On a blind date, Underdog must sniff ass ‘Cause Sweet Polly Purebred looks like Joan Rivers Olive Oyle’s voice is sandpaper on glass Popeye and Bluto fight over bones Tits and sass, Annette Funicello or Haley Mills Walt Disney fantasizes about Tinker Belle Epstein and…
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the zen of couch surfing
two windows light and shadow I’ll sit a bit longer wait until shadows disappear open the door that leads to morning 4-3-21
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Senescence 2021
Stop waiting for change; it will happen. Squash some bugs, pull weeds Water your garden; flowers grow into tomatoes 1-17-21
My husband's poetry 