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701 · Dec 2021
Sign of the times
DENNY R ALLISON Dec 2021
Leaving the forest in an enlightened mood,

A hemlock root did intrude.

Sending me crashing upon my knee.

And the crow flew away mocking me.
Apologies to the reader, and Mr. Frost, for my state of mind. We seem to have lost everything that made us bind. Hellopoetry would not take this when I titled it Alternate Truth
633 · Feb 2021
UNREQUITED CANDLE WISH
DENNY R ALLISON Feb 2021
I WISH I COULD WRITE A POEM, SO PROFOUND SO CLEVER,

THAT KNOWING SAGES, WOULD QUOTE IT FOR AGES,

AND MY NAME WOULD LIVE ON FOREVER.
"OOPS" I WASN'T SUPPOSE TO TELL YOU. NOW IT WILL NEVER COME TRUE
620 · Apr 2022
In The Wind
DENNY R ALLISON Apr 2022
Dreams, swirl around, like leaves in a breeze.
                        Life, is the ones, we seize.
437 · Jan 2022
ANOTHER DAY
DENNY R ALLISON Jan 2022
Another day
      has slipped away,
and in that time,
      the choice was mine.
To make the world, more bright.
      doing what, I know is right.
Did I cause, someone to smile,
      did I go that extra mile.
Was I quick to lend a hand,
       was I forgiving of my fellow man.
If I failed yesterday,
       may I succeed, if I get "another day."
425 · Jul 2022
% = 0
DENNY R ALLISON Jul 2022
When the essence of two join as one,
            A new life has begun.
387 · Feb 2022
Speak to Me
DENNY R ALLISON Feb 2022
Take the language of humanity,
    Choose the words that Sing, to Thee.
Arrange with the precision of universal time.
   Write them down in perfect composition, and rhyme.
Leave us mortals, one and all,
    Envious, and filled with awe.
                 Speak to me,
                         Speak to me
                                    In poetry.
383 · Mar 2021
IN EVERYTHING
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2021
Unfortunately "Cs" look like an "A",
after the "Fs" have their say.
357 · Dec 2021
CHRISTMAS AT MICKEY'S HOUSE
DENNY R ALLISON Dec 2021
I WANT TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT MICKEY'S HOUSE THIS YEAR.

I WANT TO STROLL DOWN MAIN STREET, EATING A CHOCOLATE EAR.

I WANT TO RIDE ON DUMBO, CLIMB IN ROBINSON'S TREE.

I WANT TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT MICKEY'S HOUSE WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE ME.

IF I MUST SPEND MY HOLIDAY IN THE MOUNTAINS, PLEASE MAKE IT SPACE OR SPLASH.

I'LL HOLD MY ARMS ABOVE MY HEAD, AND SMILE FOR THE CAMERAS FLASH.

I'LL SEARCH FOR HIDDEN MICKEY'S WHILE I STAND IN LINE.

OH' WHEN IS THE THREE O'CLOCK PARADE, I MUST BE THERE ON TIME.

I WANT TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT MICKEY'S HOUSE THIS YEAR.

I WANT TO STROLL DOWN MAIN STREET EATING A CHOCOLATE EAR.

I WANT TO RIDE IN A TEACUP, DID THOSE PIRATE'S GET THAT KEY?

I WANT TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT MICKEY'S HOUSE WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE ME!

IF I GO ON A CRUISE, IN THE FRIENDLY JUNGLE, LET IT BE,

AND LATER HAVE A PALE GREEN GHOST, SITTING NEXT TO ME.

I WANT TO SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH THE PRESIDENTS IN THEIR HALL,

AND MY FAVORITE FRIENDS, MICKEY, GOOFY, DONALD, AND THEM ALL.

I WANT TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT MICKEY'S HOUSE THIS YEAR.

I WANT TO STROLL DOWN MAIN STREET EATING A CHOCOLATE EAR.

I WANT TO RIDE A SPORTS CAR, LISTEN TO A STORM IN THE OLD TIKI.

I WANT TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT MICKEY'S HOUSE THIS YEAR, WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE TAKE ME!!

IF NO ONE WILL TAKE ME, I'LL HIDE IN SANTA'S SLEIGH.

HE'S ALWAYS IN THE CHRISTMAS PARADE, SO HE MUST BE ON HIS WAY.

I KNOW I WILL GET THERE, IF I HAVE TO RUN, WALK, OR CRAWL.

I WILL PROVE TO EVERYONE, IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL.

I WANT TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT MICKEY'S HOUSE THIS YEAR.

I WANT TO STROLL DOWN MAIN STREET EATING A CHOCOLATE EAR.

OH' PLEASE MOM AND DAD, WHAT'S GRAMMA'S AND GRAMPA'S NUMBER, MAYBE UNCLE DONNIE'S, OUR AUNT KATHY'S.

I WANT TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT MICKEY'S HOUSE WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, TAKE ME!!!
This is an odie I wrote to my daughter when she was living her dream of working for Disney. She was on the graveyard shift at her Disney hotel on Christmas Eve. Her first Christmas ever away from home.I wrote it as a song to cheer her up. She survived and is now a Disney Legacy Employee, and I am proud of her sticking it out
345 · Jun 2023
From the Heart
DENNY R ALLISON Jun 2023
From a distance, the heart knew,
   I was her guy.
Up close, the heart beating,
   made me, to shy.
Looking back, the heart
    regretted,
  I walked by.
344 · Apr 2022
Night and Day
DENNY R ALLISON Apr 2022
I sleep the nights away, for in my Dreams you still appear.
I weep the days away, for in my Life you're no longer here.
325 · Dec 2022
a long or a little
DENNY R ALLISON Dec 2022
I hope there will be a future, "while"

Where the pain will ease,

and I remember your smile.
322 · Jan 2023
Do it Now
DENNY R ALLISON Jan 2023
What else, needs to be
done or said,
Before we pass into the
             realm of the dead?
Is there anything unique
     in our mind,
Of life's journey to
         leave behind?
315 · Oct 2022
A Magic Trick?
DENNY R ALLISON Oct 2022
I Will,
Using only ordinary words, arranged just right.
slip through your eyes, and sense of light.
Enter your imagination, with what I write.
295 · Apr 2021
WHAT REALM?
DENNY R ALLISON Apr 2021
TO THE COSMIC SEEKERS, AND PIOUS WITH NO DOUBT,
MAYBE THE ANSWER, OUR BRAIN NOT DESIGNED TO FIGURE IT OUT.
COLLECTIVELY WHAT OUR BRAINS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED NO LESS THAN MYTHIC.
WHAT THEY CAN DREAM, MAY DWELL ONLY IN THE REALM OF THE MYSTIC.
282 · May 2022
Yes We Do!
DENNY R ALLISON May 2022
One thing this country, needs to do, is flush our Number "2"
275 · Jun 2022
Word of the Day
DENNY R ALLISON Jun 2022
Awewelletry \'o\'wel\e-tre (n) 1a. When you really have nothing to say, but write down something anyway. : I wanted to write some great poetry, but just came up with this  awewelletry.
awewell
273 · Aug 2022
Destiny ?
DENNY R ALLISON Aug 2022
What's done,
          been done.
              What happened,
                         has happened
                               What you do,
                                       is up to you.
272 · Mar 2022
AGING
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2022
It seems lately, I push the pause button all the time,
Realizing it's the rewind, I really need to find.
268 · Jun 2022
Vanishing Words
DENNY R ALLISON Jun 2022
It seems my pen, for ink, seems to lack.
       While experiencing a gravity attack.
              When trying, to write on my back.
259 · Dec 2022
REFECTIVE
DENNY R ALLISON Dec 2022
I awaken in the dark of night,
     To a stark and chilling sight.
         11:34 reflecting the alarms red light.
I got a big surprise when I typed up my poem. You see my alarm is digital and 11:34 looked much different, and it startled  The you no what out of me
258 · Sep 2022
At 4 A.M.
DENNY R ALLISON Sep 2022
I'm just a man,
       trying to understand,
                     If there is a plan,
                           mortals, can understand.
253 · Mar 2022
??
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2022
??
Oh, the decisions of the heart.
       To live without your voice,
                 or let it tear me apart.
246 · May 2023
Prime Directive
DENNY R ALLISON May 2023
As I see it, the would
       be poets
           prime mission.
To leave their
         take, on the
             human condition.
Like no two snowflakes,
          in light flurry, or
               blizzard, the same.
No two earth bound
           humans ever played,
                an identical game.
Giving to the future
            our feelings
                 from the past.
Seems a most
             noble, present
                   day task.
236 · May 2022
Advise?
DENNY R ALLISON May 2022
If You want to be content in Life.....Do.
  Remember, the World, was Never, About You.
225 · Mar 2021
THE FINAL WORD
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2021
HERE I SET A LITTLE PERTURBED,
MY POEM FINISHED, EXCEPT FOR
THE FINAL WORD.
SO I LOOK INWARD, SEARCHING AROUND,
KICKING UP ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS, AND THE OCCASIONAL NOUN.
THERE IT IS, IT LOOKS JUST RIGHT,
SO I GRAB IT, AND TO MY PAPER I WRITE.
YES I THINK, I'VE FOUND IT THIS TIME,
BUT NO MATTER HOW I TRY, IT JUST DOESN'T RHYME.
ALARMED, I'M GETTING NEAR THE BOTTOM OF MY LIST.
COULD IT BE THE FINAL WORD, JUST DOESN'T EXIST?
FEELING LOST FOR THE WORD,BEGINNING TO DESPAIR.
THEN OUT OF NOWHERE, IT'S JUST THERE!
FINALLY OVER, WRITTEN AND PENNED.
AFTER FINDING THAT FINAL WORD THE "END".
223 · Feb 2021
MIST & STORM
DENNY R ALLISON Feb 2021
THE ETERNAL MIST WHISPERS TO OUR MIND HOW IT WILL BE,

THE RAGING STORM FILLS OUR MIND WITH THAT WE WANT TO SEE.
223 · Apr 2022
The poem on my tombstone
DENNY R ALLISON Apr 2022
With the first breath,
         a Cry!
     With the last breath,
            a Sigh.
         With all in between,
                  a Why?
213 · Oct 2023
Legacy
DENNY R ALLISON Oct 2023
Have you faced the
  soul crushing reality,
of a time you will no
  longer be.
What the memories
  those left behind
   will see?
212 · Oct 2022
Or so it Seems
DENNY R ALLISON Oct 2022
One thing, it seems human nature can't abide,
    Believing, it could be on the wrong side.
211 · Sep 2021
IF NOT FORGOTTEN
DENNY R ALLISON Sep 2021
Though I'm gone, I couldn't stay.
You can bring me back any day,
Meet me in your mind, and
we can play.
Don't forget the ones who are gone, It's through you they live on.
In "these days" I consider
it luck, if the the movie
I stream doesn't use F-word.

In the "good old days"
I'd get a back hand hit,
if I ever said S-word.

My grandma, would give a,
Biblical slam, if I muttered,
D-word.

Someone's fetching a switch.
if I called, my sister a B-word

Yet in the "old days" I
do recall my black
friend, braying like a
donkey, calling me H-word,
and we would snicker, when
I called him N-word.
In all "ages" some words, are better off, not said or heard. This was to be The last line, but then it would rhyme. My "good old days" child abuse, and racist words, remembered thru, colored shades.
I know, I took the time, to not make it rhyme.
210 · Jun 2023
Quick Stick
DENNY R ALLISON Jun 2023
Hurried
   Blurried,
     Wide
        Eyed,
          Attraction
            Action,
              Ending
                Sending,
                  Bedding
                    Shedding.
208 · Feb 2021
A Poet
DENNY R ALLISON Feb 2021
US'INS KNOW IT,
IF IT DON'T RHYME,
YOU AIN'T NO POET
199 · Jul 2023
Buy Bye
DENNY R ALLISON Jul 2023
I remember with a sigh,
     those days, gone by.
When someone told
      a lie,
the teller, we would
       decry.
198 · Apr 2023
A Wish To All
DENNY R ALLISON Apr 2023
As your yesterday's continue to pile,
   may most, be remembered with a smile.
197 · Nov 2023
Our Times
DENNY R ALLISON Nov 2023
A honest belief,
  Can bring relief,
    While causing
       grief.
        May effects,
         be brief.
189 · Jul 2022
Poetry Fact #1
DENNY R ALLISON Jul 2022
The poem that you write, that's such a delight,
         in the middle of the night,
             Seems, to lite, and so less bright,
                             in the daylight.
186 · Jan 1
More for 2024
I Cheer,
     For less Fear,
           In the coming Year.
179 · Mar 2021
MEMORIES 1
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2021
AN AWKWARD FIRST KISS, UNDER THE PORCH LIGHT,
THE COMEBACK KISS, REMEMBERED ALL NIGHT.
176 · Jul 2022
The Same Only Different
DENNY R ALLISON Jul 2022
Can't we see, our choice to be.

           A part or Apart
174 · Sep 2023
the "Best"
DENNY R ALLISON Sep 2023
Do you remember, the "BEST"
     Poem you ever Read,
the one that, to your love
     of Poetry, it led?
Did it set you upon your quest,
     to write a Poem to pass the test,
       of being someone else's,
            "BEST"?
172 · Sep 2023
Spark in the Dark
DENNY R ALLISON Sep 2023
When the power goes out,
     there is no doubt.
How dependent, we be,
     on our electricity.
172 · Mar 2021
LAMENT
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2021
SO MANY HAVE COME BEFORE MY TIME,
           TO THIS KNOWLEDGE, I MUST RESIGN,
                      AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT, WILL NEVER BE MINE.
171 · Sep 2022
Save the Trees
DENNY R ALLISON Sep 2022
I think That I shall never see,
               a book of poetry,
                     That didn't **** a tree.
Maybe Joyce Kilmer was a conservationist?
171 · Jun 2022
Wild 'N' Wet
DENNY R ALLISON Jun 2022
New Coaster,
     Big Boaster.
   A Dare,
        They Share.
      Up Creak,
           Over Peak.
         Loud Scream,
               A Stream.
             New Pair,
                  Underwear.
167 · Oct 2023
History's Loop
DENNY R ALLISON Oct 2023
It seems, human
  "civilizations,"
     only plan,
       to sacrifice
         their soul,
           and riches,
             to harm their,
               fellow man.
156 · Jan 17
Wonders
The wonders of nature,
    that so attract,
are made by forces under,
    constant attack.
The wonders of humans,
      the world begat,
when together they said,
      we can build that.
141 · Jan 26
Equality
All men are created equal. He said.
She raised her eyes, and shook her head.
134 · Mar 2022
"HARI KILVER"
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2022
In writing my poems, it's always my quest,
to take the time, to make it rhyme, but I'm in distress.
I wanted to convey, how much better I rest,
Since the purchase of a great mattress.
My problem you see after plenty of test, I bought a "Purple,"
and "Dang Me" the only thing I found to rhyme was, "Maple Surple."
One of the the worlds favorite pigments, after centuries of time,
has not a single word to which in can rhyme.
A color once held in history as the royal shade,
even now leaves this poet, his poem unmade.
A purple fruit, from which wine we could make,
And someone chose, to call it a "grape."
I say it's high time to correct, this to long slight,
And save the word "Purple" from it's unjust blight
How about you Auto Makers, with your Durango,Sienna, and Tesla.
Come up with a sporty "Verpule," if you wanna Impreza.
Hey, Disney you once rhymed, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,
would doing "Purple" be so atrocious.
Big Pharma, with your colorful, zides, mycins, and statins,
maybe you can use an "urple" in your next covid patents.
You TikTok influencers I'm calling on you,
#Purplechallenge, together, let's see what we can do.
Well, I was really pumped, but now, I just sit here sad.
The Purple Company, sent a gift, an "ORANGE" mattress pad.
So now I pull out my ceremonial sword of "Silver,"
and commit this poem to: "Hari Kilver."
Thanks to the late and great "Roger Miller" for giving me the only rhyme I could find for purple.
112 · Oct 2022
Or vice, versa
DENNY R ALLISON Oct 2022
If you want to write a poem,
         about being angry.
             You need to first get hungry.
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