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Open Poetry #49

Poets' Koffee Klatch

Ticklefingers
Senior Member
Posts 710
Louisiana

0 posted 2015-12-23 10:38 PM

cups brimming with dust
muttering faces of age
over dry chapped lips

She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast".

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2015-12-23 10:53 PM

Oh hell . . . I resemble that remark.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Ticklefingers
Senior Member
Posts 710
Louisiana

2 posted 2015-12-23 11:05 PM

Kind of autobiographical, so I guess that makes two of us around the checker barrel JerryPat.

*cough*...your move

She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast".

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2015-12-24 11:45 AM

Guess I'm the one refillin' yer cups fellas.
I'm the frumpy one in the apron with the coffee pot that's pushin' 60.

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

4 posted 2015-12-24 12:32 PM

Hush! you all are youngins--Im 71, and still drilling holes in ice. But my lips do get chapped sometimes.

Good stuff Tickle-enjoyed the little poem, and the replies.

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg

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