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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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 ...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

The need for friction:

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Survivors of the next apocalypse Will be free of social media addictions Thankfully, the next millennia will be devoid of Boomers who thrive...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

14 things you don’t want to know about heaven:

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A typographical error made a mistake appear to An American President who’s dementia was post office so Ask me how much I have fallen in lov...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

103:

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I dreamt myself lost on the Albany Frontier. was rescued by Blind Peter and Freeborn Garrettson. They asked me what a Saint was face to face...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

102: The wild poetic kingdom is no place for the faint of heart.

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My poem didn’t get  Picked for the big game. There it sits on the sidelines Kicking dirt and ringing hands Knowing it’s true worth it moves ...
Friday, September 2, 2022

101- Boomers:

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We are winding down Tooling the lane Parking the car Putting the cows in the barn Walking the dog Soaking the coals Closing down the porch T...
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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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