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Est. June 5, 2008
C.E. Thieroff
Hello, It is such a pleasure to have found this website. I am so glad to be here and share my thoughts, hopes, dreams and disappointments with you. Thank you all for taking the time to visit with me. Your comments and suggestions are most welcome. babalu726

Ambivalence Ambled Up  [E]   0.6 KB
Free Verse about feeling ambivalent

When An Angel Touches You  [E]   10.2 KB
Memories of a Dear Friend

The Exit Interview  [18+]   2.4 KB
Free verse about displacement

Looking For Answers in Vicarious Places  [18+]   1.1 KB
Free verse about stumbling through life's lessons

A Hard Sixty  [E]   2.2 KB
Free verse about a friend in a nursing home

My Snow Covered Back Steps Lay In Wait  [E]   2.9 KB
Free Verse Poem about the February 2010 Snowmageddon in Western PA

Irish Christmas Lonely  [E]   2.4 KB
Holiday depression arrives in the free form verse variety

Hard Frost on an Old Brown Buick  [E]   2.4 KB
Free verse about our old Buick

Thoughts of the Brown-Eyed Girl From Ago  [18+]   2.2 KB
Free Verse about Love Lost

Titter Tatter, Pitter Patter  [E]   1.7 KB
Another poem about the changing season

Under The Red And Golden Passageway  [E]   1.3 KB
A free verse poem about the changing seasons

Never Pet A Porcupine  [E]   0.9 KB
Poem about Porcupines

A Haiku or Two  [E]   0.4 KB
A feeble first attempt at the Japanese Art of Haiku

The Car Salesman's Blues  [E]   2.1 KB
A Blues tune

The Gift of Desperation  [E]   1.7 KB
A paradox of my life's journey

Ode to a Bad Toupee  [E]   1.4 KB
Free Verse Poem About Baldness

Tunisian Nights  [E]   1.2 KB
Free Verse Poem about love

Three Loves  [E]   0.9 KB
Free verse on the physical problems that we soemtimes encounter

Oh! To Be an Ocelot  [E]   0.8 KB
A pretty cat poem

Plastered, Disastered  [E]   1.8 KB
Free verse poem

Who Needs Love  [E]   1.3 KB
Free Verse

Lifes' Last Good Nerve  [E]   1.9 KB
Free verse poetry

As Starlings to the Wire Fly  [E]   1.4 KB
Free verse winter's lament

The Call From New York City  [13+]   3.0 KB
Free verse

My Old Bones Ache  [E]   1.3 KB
Free verse poem

Steeler Nation  [E]   2.6 KB
A free verse poem about the Pittsburgh Steeler fans and The Super Bowl

The Moon Is A Big Yellow Dog  [E]   1.3 KB
Free verse poem about loneliness and loss

She Keeps It In A Neat Package  [18+]   1.4 KB
Free Verse About the Lack of Intimacy

Thankful I'm Not A Komodo Dragon  [E]   2.6 KB
Another free verse strange thing in my head

I'll Cry Until Tomorrow  [E]   1.4 KB
(And Tomorrow May Never Come)

Little Mary Beth From Roscoe  [18+]   1.8 KB
You Dropped a Chong On Me Baby

Blinded by the Spite  [E]   2.4 KB
Free Verse on Spite and Self Loathing

Electronic Drivel Dressed in Drag  [18+]   5.3 KB
A rant about electronic media

Gift of Grace  [E]   2.5 KB
A Free Verse Thanksgiving Poem

The Haggis Complex  [E]   2.1 KB
Free verse about a metaphorical haggis

The Hard Road  [E]   2.8 KB
Free form poetry

Masks & Makeup  [E]   2.6 KB
Another Free Form Poem

The Irishman In My Life   [E]   0.9 KB
A free form poem about Leonard

Ghetto Head  [E]   1.8 KB
Trip the light fantastic in a very scary place (A free form poem)

The Fiber Of A Good Man  [E]   2.1 KB
Free form poetry about what makes a good man a good man

With These Loving Hands  [E]   1.5 KB
A spiritual message/ prayer of service

Oh Man, It Makes Me Crazy  [E]   2.2 KB
A free form poem

Baby Steps  [E]   1.7 KB
An Update on Oh Nance, I Can't Fix You

The Grinny  [E]   1.9 KB
A Chipmunk Visits Me

Pelota Bright, Red and White  [E]   1.2 KB
A Free Form Poem about Beanballs

It Is Ironic At My Age To Consider  [13+]   9.0 KB
Thinking About My Mom

Different Drummer  [E]   0.7 KB
free form poem

Ease and Comfort  [E]   5.1 KB
What I Need Not Seek (A Free Form Poem)

Doc Strait In His Bow Tie  [E]   1.6 KB
A tribute to my English Literature teacher in 1965

Sleeping For Ninety Minutes  [GC]   2.2 KB
A dark free form poem written on Ninety Minutes of sleep in the last 24 hours

A Red Rocket for Christmas   [E]   10.2 KB
My Christmas Present in 1960

The Ball of Life  [GC]   19.8 KB
Dealing with the devastation of alcoholism

Oh Nance, I Can't Fix You  [ASR]   1.5 KB
Still in the grips of her demons, she struggles.

The Hands of an Oaf  [E]   2.2 KB
A tale of tenderness shared by two people

9 & 1/2 Weeks with Christie Brinkley  [18+]   7.7 KB
She asked him about his sexual fantasies, unfortunately he disclosed them to her.

Experience, Strength & Hope  [ASR]   1.7 KB
Life's wisdom as taught to me by others

We Only Accept Heads  [ASR]   24.7 KB
A Shocking Discovery About Duchess' Almost Final Fate

Curved Ode  [E]   0.7 KB
Love poem from me to who or whom

24 Inches of 18 Karats  [18+]   1.6 KB
A trip down memory lane to the disco

Of All The Crazy Things In My Head  [E]   1.2 KB
(She Was At Least Three Of Them)

Bring Lunch and Smokes  [E]   1.2 KB
A sad text message

Butterfly Love  [E]   1.4 KB
Dreamily loving her from a distance

She Was New  [E]   1.3 KB
Witnessing the transformation miracle of Kelly M.

Chrome Cats on The Fence  [E]   1.3 KB
Flying in Formation Cool and Tough

Thinkin' About Curtis Mayfield  [E]   5.1 KB
Thoughts about growing up white in the 60's

What Do You Know Placido Domingo  [E]   1.2 KB
Opera stars living the low life, hanging out with me in the double wides of my mind ;-)

Warm Moonlight on the Beach  [13+]   1.5 KB
A lovely encounter on the moonlit beaches of my mind

Dead Man Walking at Seventeen  [ASR]   2.2 KB
Teenage Heroin Addiction

 Mama J You is Troublin' Me  [E]   4.2 KB
Angst over a troubled friendship

I'm Sorry I Missed Dancing with You  [E]   2.5 KB
Prose about a broken promise

A Half a Million Dollars of Loneliness  [E]   1.3 KB
An observation of a beautiful friend awash in the throes of alcoholism

Bliss on a Gold Wing and a Prayer  [ASR]   5.8 KB
Love and Passion on a Motorcycle????

Talking About Love Outside Pat's Garage  [ASR]   2.6 KB
Love confessions blocked by the reality of both of our life situations

She Can Hardly Look At Me  [E]   0.9 KB
An awkward situation that many of us have encountered

On Being Alone  [E]   3.6 KB
An honest look at the feelings of a middle aged man on loneliness

I Didn't Want to Bother God  [E]   2.1 KB
Insight into my relationship with God as I understand Him

Moms Wooden Spoon  [E]   3.3 KB
A childhood tale of mixed emotions, mixed batters and mixed signals

Snakes Get a Bad Rap ( a poetic pun)  [E]   1.3 KB
musing about snakes

The Home on Chestnut Street  [E]   6.4 KB
reflections on moving out of our home

28 Years  [E]   2.0 KB
A tale of forgiveness 28 years after my fathers death

Irreconcilable Indifferences  [E]   0.9 KB
Retrospective on Divorce

Brother Charles  [E]   3.4 KB
The loss of a dear friend from suicide

Does it have to be this lonely this long  [E]   1.2 KB
free form poem about loneliness

A Day With Shelley  [E]   1.1 KB
Seeking some ease and comfort in a difficult time

Morning Chatter  [E]   1.5 KB
Morning impressions

Under The Sledge and Maul  [E]   0.9 KB
Lamenting a loss

Jami  [E]   0.7 KB
A short poem

It Is A Day (With Thoughts of Katherine)  [E]   0.8 KB
A love lost and thoughts of her

El Santa Azul (The Blue Santa)  [ASR]   11.5 KB
A true story about dreading Christmas

Never lovers, just in love, so deeply in  [------]   1.6 KB
A poem about love, respect and friendship

Best Of All  [E]   0.4 KB
Free verse poem to my friend Jami

Sixty Seven Crows In A Tree  [E]   10.3 KB
A surprise in the early evening

Whiskey Tired  [E]   1.4 KB
Free verse

El Santa Azul (The Blue Santa)  [ASR]   11.6 KB
Dreaded Holidays

I Want You To Write With Me  [E]   1.3 KB
A love poem to a girl

Never Lovers, Just In Love,   [------]   1.6 KB
Never lovers , just deeply in love