richard-l-ratliff - Hello Poetry

Cookies Does it hurt? Is it painful Or just a gnawing hunger Something misplaced or used up Going to the cookie jar And finding it empty You can’t bake anymore because The recipe is lost Enjoying snacks one by one Year after year tasting small bites Returning to the jar Always expecting a handful Until there were none And you wished you had baked more Or somehow made them last longer The recipe is lost Copyright 6/6/19 Richard L Ratliff

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Jun 10, 2019

Jun 10, 2019 at 8:21 PM UTC

Cookies

Cookies Does it hurt? Is it painful Or just a gnawing hunger Something misplaced or used up Going to the cookie jar And finding it empty You can’t bake anymore because The recipe is lost Enjoying snacks one by one Year after year tasting small bites Returning to the jar Always expecting a handful Until there were none And you wished you had baked more Or somehow made them last longer The recipe is lost Copyright 6/6/19 Richard L Ratliff

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Ice man O’Neil was right he did come **** I’m old to remember when he came We had a freezer, but he came to jimmy southgate’s house In what looked like an old medic truck from WWII Down the ruts in the unpaved alley to the back door Those tongs for ice cubes as big as concrete blocks Scary giant tweezers loading that wooden box Nice man wearing a dark leather apron told Jimmy’s mom (Who looked like Peggy Lee) “Have a nice day” I think she liked the milkman better His delivery took a lot longer Copyright 3/14/19 Richard L Ratliff

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Apr 29, 2019

Apr 29, 2019 at 2:43 PM UTC

Ice Man

Ice man O’Neil was right he did come **** I’m old to remember when he came We had a freezer, but he came to jimmy southgate’s house In what looked like an old medic truck from WWII Down the ruts in the unpaved alley to the back door Those tongs for ice cubes as big as concrete blocks Scary giant tweezers loading that wooden box Nice man wearing a dark leather apron told Jimmy’s mom (Who looked like Peggy Lee) “Have a nice day” I think she liked the milkman better His delivery took a lot longer Copyright 3/14/19 Richard L Ratliff

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Sand bag Life is a sackcloth bag, helically stitched And filled with earth and sand I've carried my self like that sackcloth bag Firm yet shifting subtly as it moves With small flaws at the bottom stitching Leaking a little here and there along this path Unnoticed for years: mental incontinence Parts of me here and there left behind Carried myself with seeming ease Unconcerned of the trail I left Grains of sand that were hard to follow Nothing more than moral flatulence Just a bag of sand Slowly leaking as my life moves on A trail for others to follow or avoid Grains of wisdom and lunacy Who am I to judge Now just a bag of bones Copyright 3/14/19 Richard L Ratliff

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Apr 28, 2019

Apr 28, 2019 at 3:37 PM UTC

Sand bag

Sand bag Life is a sackcloth bag, helically stitched And filled with earth and sand I've carried my self like that sackcloth bag Firm yet shifting subtly as it moves With small flaws at the bottom stitching Leaking a little here and there along this path Unnoticed for years: mental incontinence Parts of me here and there left behind Carried myself with seeming ease Unconcerned of the trail I left Grains of sand that were hard to follow Nothing more than moral flatulence Just a bag of sand Slowly leaking as my life moves on A trail for others to follow or avoid Grains of wisdom and lunacy Who am I to judge Now just a bag of bones Copyright 3/14/19 Richard L Ratliff

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Plans for Christmas ? Expect me to seep into your dreams When you are napping I’ll be there While trimming the tree with thoughts of me Or rapping presents I’ll be in your mind This season is your reason to remember me And all the time we have shared Decorating each other’s lives Copyright 12 - 9 - 18 Richard L Ratliff

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Dec 21, 2018

Dec 21, 2018 at 3:53 PM UTC

Plans for Christmas?

Plans for Christmas ? Expect me to seep into your dreams When you are napping I’ll be there While trimming the tree with thoughts of me Or rapping presents I’ll be in your mind This season is your reason to remember me And all the time we have shared Decorating each other’s lives Copyright 12 - 9 - 18 Richard L Ratliff

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Python Python got tied in knots Pulling Eve's leg about an apple Adam tried to get a word in edgewise All to no avail Who got that apple After the first bite Ah that's a tail for later Copyright 2016 Richard L Ratliff

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Dec 6, 2018

Dec 6, 2018 at 5:03 PM UTC

Python

Python Python got tied in knots Pulling Eve's leg about an apple Adam tried to get a word in edgewise All to no avail Who got that apple After the first bite Ah that's a tail for later Copyright 2016 Richard L Ratliff

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Animal Crackers A smal book of illustrated poems in my new book Animal Crackers Now on Amazon.com/author/richardratliff My quirky humor available for all Order now hellp a starving poet Great Christmas guilt

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Nov 3, 2018

Nov 3, 2018 at 1:10 PM UTC

Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers A smal book of illustrated poems in my new book Animal Crackers Now on Amazon.com/author/richardratliff My quirky humor available for all Order now hellp a starving poet Great Christmas guilt

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Kiss across the sea Can we hold hands across far distant lands And share our kiss across the troubled seas Let us breathe the air from around the world Can we share thoughts in the clouded skies And embrace the images of lovers Carried along by thoughts of each other Let the words we share warm your heart And shrink the distance that separates us Copyright 2017 12/1/17 Richard L Ratliff

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Oct 9, 2018

Oct 9, 2018 at 11:43 AM UTC

Kiss across the sea

Kiss across the sea Can we hold hands across far distant lands And share our kiss across the troubled seas Let us breathe the air from around the world Can we share thoughts in the clouded skies And embrace the images of lovers Carried along by thoughts of each other Let the words we share warm your heart And shrink the distance that separates us Copyright 2017 12/1/17 Richard L Ratliff

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