I wasn’t intending this to be a “wake and bake” poem, but it came out like that, anyway.
#poetry #summerheatwave
Tracy Chapman wrote a song late i… which deserves to endure forever,… and a plaintive story about the di… that Life can sometimes bring. It received lots of airplay in the…
July 19, 2013 Chicago, Illinois On a brutally hot night Ed stood beneath the scoreboard of the ballpark he loves
Chicago’s party of the summer is the Pride parade up north It’s boozier than St. Patrick’s… Less explosive than the 4th Lots of people dance and play
Rhyme some words or maybe don’t. They’ll make sense unless they won’t
There was a young puppy named Gus Who charmed and amused all of us. While on a retractable leash He darted all over. Yeesh! It made Meg and John want to cuss…
All of the hard work and even harder hits that Marion Barber III endured resulted in fame, riches, and an adrenalized lifestyle
It’s not the death of a person but it is the end of an era for just about every American over the age of perhaps thirty-fiv… Gracing the cover of Sports Illus…
The cafes are always ready To serve their guests a meal Or sometimes just a drink will do Their setting is most ideal. Passing away an hour, sometimes mo…
Sometimes Inspiration finds you and it’s great when that happens. Just don’t expect it to remain ver…
Voting is a privilege As well as a duty. How can it be that so many of us can’t be bothered
We love and we laugh On this earthly voyage, Circling around the sun For an unknown period of time. The only thing we truly know
This poem stays in my pocket Until I take it out And read it to somebody That’s what this day’s about. Thanks for listening to my words
The band’s ferry got stuck in a sa… on their way to New York City on an April day in 1954 when music was changed forever. By the time Bill Haley and his C…
The monarchy seems very stuffy Not at all like the masses they se… Perhaps they could do with a more… From further down on the great soc… I already know one King Chuck
He has five of them with three different women which is more than any man I know on both fronts. From their perspective