spontaneous/sonnets

In keeping with my current status: Retired. Ceasing to play the game. Quiet. No rules. No timeframe. Just 14 lines. Some structure but as little as possible. Simple. Clean. Evolving. Named for a Jack Kerouac poem.

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Sunday, November 24, 2024

#112

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#112  Yesterday I was sad. Today I’m just mad. Pissed off actually! How dare you?! We had it all and  you listened to that cult leader… Sacr...
Monday, June 17, 2024

#111

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My brain,  is a three on the tree. A six banger with a thrown rod. My thoughts,  vacuum based speed up and slow down as my foot plays with t...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

#110

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Elvis called today He said he saw me at the window watching the clouds in the desert. I was dreaming and he was driving when Joseph Stalin w...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

#109

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  May the Psychopomps find you on the bedpost before you lose your flavor: Oh my dearest Elvis,  Keeper of my youthful hopes…        ...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

#108

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  An email from you  so long ago One year to the day before you died “Your email is too long.” you said Years now I come across this ...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

#107

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#107 The wind blows away. and an umbrella lasts according to its quality. Down the street an organ grinds away melodiously as Jackdaw Pete m...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Trolley Dodger.

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My Nana was withered at the end. A fragment of crêpe paper caught in the wind. My mother, much the same at that age had been the picture of ...
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Mark W. Ó Brien has been widely published at home and abroad. He is an alumnus of the Blackwater International Poetry Festival. His fourth collection of poetry entitled "My Childhood Appropriated." is available from Foothills Publishing. http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2019/obrien.html
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