being Frank and Earnest

With women I always strive
To be frank or earnest

I always try
my absolute best

For as long as
I’m known as frank or Earnest

My real name’s
not gonna show up

In any paternity
Tests!

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Break of Dawn

Slats of sunshine…
laddered light

Beating back
the Stygian night

Fireflies clothed
in orbs of gold

Seek sleepy refuge,
from pre-dawn cold

While daybreak dithers…
Twixt dark and light

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Alone

Come out of the shadows
Where you wait patiently
Come take my hand
So I’ll not be alone
Wrap your dark cloak
tight about me…
As if I were your own
Step out from the shadow
Please take me home

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Mom

Grey hair…
Red wrinkled cheeks

Warm smile, always ready
Oer the years, days and weeks

Time worn fingers
Thin gold band… so old

That’s my mom… made with hugs
Wrapped round a heart of gold

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Companionship

Companionship is keystone
To any relationship

Coming together
Cannot be staying apart

Companionship is aggregate
To cement the relationship

The absolute adhesive
To affix companionship to heart

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A few words on love

Love Is a word
That women prize
As a token

To men love’s a thing
Better shown…
Than spoken

To women,
love in words
Is a passionate potion

While to men
Love in deeds…
Is the ultimate devotion

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Sans Inspiration

Tonight I’m inspired
By my lack of inspiration

I’m inspired to write
And defy this Mental constipation

Tonight I’ll write…
Simply out of spite

entirely, and completely
Without inspiration

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Googling

You can Google yourself
All day and all night

You can Google yourself
And no one will mind

You can Google your brains out
That too is all right…

But if you Google tooo much…
You just might go blind

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Before The Buildings Fell

“Those are people”
Gasped the woman at my side
“No, surely not”
I confidently replied

“Look! Their arms and hands clawing”
Then I too saw them slowly falling
I was wrong and sadly
She was right

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Poetry...McDonalds...and me

A goodly part
Of my poetic production
Is conceived over coffee
At my local McDonalds

So if you think some are good…
Then those are mine…
And the one’s that are stinko….
Well… those are Ronald’s

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