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 Mar 2015 GGA
Ariel Baptista
Evergreen and ivory
Turquoise tears bleed ebony
Fuchsia trees bear violet cherries
Blood oranges,
Mushroom clouds and ashberries.
These are the thoughts that grace my mind
As I turn to leave
Garden gnomes and rose scraped knees
Faster now
Faster than before
Kiss me golden,
Less, then more
And tell me who I am.
Coteries and clandestine deals
Soft-sweet midnight chamomile
And indigo aspirations
Somber February celebrations
Anniversaries white and red
Blue and green and white and red
And can you keep a secret?
Black-tea memories always slap me sleepless
And I have never known quite exactly how I feel.
Clementines suspended in yellow lamplight
Cross it out to scarlet rewrite.
Beige mountains and Alaskan hills
Crescent moon and sawdust mills
Silver smiles on a benign boat
Blessed if I'm an allusion to a footnote.
 Feb 2015 GGA
Mike Hauser
It ain't the pork, it ain't the beans
It ain't the mustard on saltines
It ain't the redneck social scenes

I love about the south

It ain't the ice cold sweet southern tea
It ain't the way that we say please
It ain't the way we lemon squeeze

I love about the south

It ain't the perfect slice of pecan pie
It ain't the wink in the bullfrog's eyes
It ain't the fireflies that light the night

I love about the south

It ain't the way we say yes ma'am
When you visit Alabam
It ain't the attitude of yes we can

I love about the south

It ain't the way that we say ya'll
With the syrupy sweet southern draw
No it ain't none of that at all

I love about the south

It's the crisp clear starry nights
Through the shifting shadows of the loblolly pine
As I stand here with your hand in mine

I love about the south

Just the fact that you are here
And that I can hold you near
As I hear you call me dear

*I love about the south
I actually love everything about the South.....
 Feb 2015 GGA
Ellis Reyes
Harry the Hippo was a circus fave
For 15 years on the center stage.
He delighted kids young and old
Balancing ***** on his oversized nose.

Year after year
Show after show
Harry delighted
with his big, whopping nose.

No one under the big top
could have guessed
What horrible thing
Would happen next

From the front of crowd,
in a colorful seat,
A blond haired boy
tossed Harry a treat

Harry chomped it down
and continued his act,
Then
Suddenly
Harry stopped,
And fell flat on his back

Harry rolled right
Harry rolled left
then
Harry died a
Painful...
choking...
death

The Ringleader called for the hippo doc
Who told him that Harry died from
Anaphyalactic  shock
Brought on by a child’s
Peanut lollipop
 Jan 2015 GGA
soumya mandal
Stay awake.
And wait for him,
As the love
Is on stake.
Stay awake.
And think about him,
Retrieve the memories
And bear the ache.
Stay awake.
And miss him.
Hear the silences.
And realize your mistake.
Stay awake.
And try to forget him.
Feel the pain,
slowly in fragments, the heart breaks.
 Jan 2015 GGA
soumya mandal
In the recent times,
I saw myself
Growing impudent
And losing elf.

I told people and believed,
That I need no men
Oh God, I prithee
To bless me with strength.

I shall not require
Anyone's sympathy.
Even at the times of failure
Oh God, I prithee

I don't want life
Going rellentando,
Though sometimes it takes my
Senses to be ambedo
 Jan 2015 GGA
Dorothy Parker
In youth, it was a way I had
   To do my best to please,
And change, with every passing lad,
   To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know,
   And do the things I do;
And if you do not like me so,
   To hell, my love, with you!
 Jan 2015 GGA
Shel Silverstein
GOD says to me with a kind
of smile, "Hey how would you like
to be God awhile And steer the world?"
"Okay," says I, "I'll give it a try.

Where do I set?
How much do I get?
What time is lunch?
When can I quit?"

"Gimme back that wheel," says GOD.
"I don't think you're quite ready YET."
 Dec 2014 GGA
WILLIAM WORTHLESS
there was a little rabbit he lived underground
everything so quiet he coudnt hear a sound
underneath the soil buried oh so deep
that is where he goes when he needs to sleep.

oneday he was playing outside his rabbit hole
he came across his friend a lovely little mole
mole began to cry he was very sad
his tunnel was filled in by all the rain they had.

dont worry said the rabbit you can stay with me
you can come to  my house it is water free
rabbit made a bed for the mole to sleep
way down in his hole so vey very deep.

now they live together and are the best of friends
happy ever after thats how the story ends.
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