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Star Crosser

21 Thursday Jan 2021

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Now passing
Too quickly
The Earth’s sphere

Nearing the Moon
With its
Companion star

I’d like to fly between the two
Separate
Them
For
A
Moment

So when rejoined
They’d know their love again


Charlene James-Duguid
Amissville, Virginia
Recast June 23,2018

Fated

19 Tuesday Jan 2021

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Once, only once,
The Magic Marble Man
Forgot his line.

But what a time
To “go up.”
The command performance
Had been in the works for months.

Trumpeters engaged,
Jugglers hired,
Singing mermaids,
With a few baritone mermen
Thrown in for good measure.
Swimming in.

And there he was,
The one and only Marble Man
Gone blank,
Not a word coursing through his
Brain.
A vacuum.
Ah, yes.

Brain, yes, then it came.
In a split-second.
“Brain.”

“The key to all knowledge is
The juicy syrup of the brain.”

As he sent forth the declaration with gusto,
He knew he’d never lose the knack.
It was just one of those things,
Just one of those crazy things.
His own bell starting to ring
In his unique way.

The Magic only the Marble Man
Created
At his fingertip
Just one of those things.


Charlene James-Duguid
Amissville, Virginia
January 16, 2021

Marge at the Gates

31 Thursday Dec 2020

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Pearly, they look faux to me
I’d never wear any so obviously dipped
Well we thought we’d cut costed a bit
‘God cutting costs I never hear of that’
The pot is never empty, the more you give the more you get

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Love Poems 2021: As Always

30 Wednesday Dec 2020

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NickelOdeon

21 Monday Dec 2020

Bodies,
Ours
And others,
Gurgle.
Make
Music.

None melodic, its reason is different.
With the aid of substances we know not,
Life continues.
A cantaloupe here, a Klondike bar there.
Sausages, nuts and cranberry-berry – berry sauces
Turn a ditty
Into the Hallelujah Chorus.

Unmute.
Sing along.

Charlene James-Duguid
Amissville, Virginia
December 22, 2020

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First Story Retold

24 Thursday Sep 2020

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Night rain
In the Garden of Eden.
Time for
God to purify the forest
Knowing the necessity
Of fresh water, loamy earth and
Crystalline air.

Adam and Eve did not.
They frolicked and rollicked
While The Almighty worked
Up to His eyebrows in elbow grease.

Just for them
He created crickets on the spot
And tree frogs in counterpoint
So that the human-things
His favorites so far,
Would know no boredom.

All the while the sweat of
His brow gully-washed his tired beard.

Ingrates, the pair like teenagersIn the shadows of a high school prom
Overturned vitrines.

He cleaned up the mess.
He might have been angry, vengeful,It could have been a viper He sent.

Instead, under His breath He murmured
As He watched them blush,“Oh well, they’re just kids.”

With that He sent them the promise
And blessing
Of the First Kiss.

Charlene James-Duguid
Amissville, Virginia

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The Twains Shall Meet

08 Tuesday Sep 2020

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Morning Clown Meets Green Sauce — A Short Epic

08 Tuesday Sep 2020

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Tower of Love

31 Monday Aug 2020

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IMG_2354.JPGEvery morn each day
Cowboy Jim calls “Breakfast on”
Fresh Fruits’ Bowl dances

Healthy in Beauty
Nature’s colors sing sweetness
Perfect sections diced

Cut grapes stack them high
Balance Mandarins with care
Nectar nectarines

Why? Proof of lovin’
Kitchen Cowboy shows his skills
Every morn each day

 

Charlene James-Duguid
Amissville, Virginia
August 30, 2020

Cora’s Fantastic Birthday

28 Friday Aug 2020

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“Cora, wake up darling child.
It’s your birthday, a perfect popping day.
You’re only six, and only
Magically Mary, popping in
And out on
This very special day.
Today and only today.”

“I know that I cannot waste a moment, Anne.
So many details, so many, so many.
You know Miss Bird needs brown paper sacks.
And Bert needs a new brush to sweep the
Chimneys, make them 100% soot-free.”

With those jobs in mind
Cora opened her bumbershoot.
She began to tie freshly-penned notes,
Directives to each spoke.

She was determine to
‘Be responsible for all I do.
Find that every problem has a sunny side.
Know what I believe.
Think without a muddle in your brain.
Take time for myself by
Poppin in and out.”

“Perfectly Poppins, you are, you are,”
Exclaimed Anne.

“I can

Super
Cala
Fragalistic
Expealidocious
My way through life.”

And Cora did.
Putting her know-how in her
Bumbershoot, bedecked with
Crimson ribbons springy
And spangly from its spokes
Cora stepped out into the clouds
To be the famous nanny,
For her
Fantastic Birthday.

Charlene James-Duguid
Amissville, Virginia
August, 2020

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