Bundled Up, Volume 9:
All Styles of Poetry
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Epigrams, Couplets, Triplets,
Quatrains, Quintets, Sextets,
Quintets, Sonnets
Get Off of Quintain Lane
By Mike Garofalo
15+ Poems
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4500.
I drove out to Dougan Falls in the Spring,
for no particular reason, just the way
you follow a ear-opening sacredness that keeps
coming back to you in the rain of memories.
The water doesn't care about a trillion rocks.
It goes because it's been going so for decades;
the same lesson the Douglas Firs learned
when standing still in the Gorge winds.
My niece never said much about beauty.
I parked the car, we joined the crowds,
walked up to Multnomah Falls.
We both looked up and didn't speak.
The noisy songs of Cascadian waterfalls:
from high to low, young to old,
flowing down, colder to cold,
into the Columbia River flowing slow;
till it becomes the salty blood
in the arteries of Oceanus
beyond the south jetty of Dead Time.
Is this enough?
I think that's the whole thing, right there.
- Oceanus
4501.
The Uncounted Sky
The Douglas Firs hold the dark.
June brings an extra gold moon tonight,
climbing the ridges,
turning the Klickitat into moving blue blinks,
as if the sky cared for stained glass.
On the lonely dirt road in the black lava hills,
we stopped, killed the headlights,
let the engine go cool under the stars.
We want a reason for our dark quests,
some grand excuse to stand in the cold.
But there it is, spilled off the volcano's vomit—
the world overflowing its container.
4502.
One night I awoke to the sounds
of cold rain on the hard wind.
The clanking of backyard gongs
till I took them down.
Wiped raindrops off my head.
Opened my fly
pissed on the ground.
Headed back into my bed.
4503.
The moon tilts your image across the dark water.
A billion galaxies drift on a Sea of Nothingness.
Foam bleeds flames; the wave blooms at dawn.
We follow brightness down, not wider.
Coastal pines go thin as glass in the blast.
4505.
Gray day
Still.....
September noon—
Half-day and Half-night,
= Equinox Equality!!
Poetry Sections on this Webpage
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Bundled Up:
Poetry By Mike Garofalo
Bundled Up, Volume 1
Quintain Poems 1 - 1,000
Bundled Up, Volume 2
Quintain Poems 1,000 - 1,500
Bundled Up, Volume 3
Quintain Poems 1,500 - 2,000
Bundled Up, Volume 4
Quintain Poems 2,000 - 2,500
Bundled Up, Volume 5
Quintain Poems 2,500 - 3,000
Bundled Up, Volume 6
Quintain Poems 3,000 - 3,500
Bundled Up, Volume 7
Quintain Poems 3,500 - 4,000
Bundled Up, Volume 8
Quintain Poems 4,000 - 4,500
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Quintain Poems 4,500 - 5,000
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4506.
Pulling Onions
The Onion of Being
Never stops growing
Layering layers over layers---
Giving us one peel a day
On our life's way
4507.
We made sex so fun
Fucking outdoors in the sun
A blanket for a bed on the ground
Nobody else ever around---
Oh, to be twenty-one again. So Fun!
4508.
Waiting to be Opened
book unopened
hidden potential
covered insights
closed ideas
Waiting...
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february BURrrrrrrrrr
a stillness
a hardness
a bleakness
a shiver—
a reminder of winter
4601.
How much time do I have left?
Is it a little, or is it a lot?
Are you counting by the official's clock.
I'm anxious as a tumbling rock
As nervous as ships rocking in docks.
4602.
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4605.
Poetry Sections on this Webpage
Bundled Up, Volume 9
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Bundled Up, Volume 1
Quintain Poems 1 - 1,000
Bundled Up, Volume 2
Quintain Poems 1,000 - 1,500
Bundled Up, Volume 3
Quintain Poems 1,500 - 2,000
Bundled Up, Volume 4
Quintain Poems 2,000 - 2,500
Bundled Up, Volume 5
Quintain Poems 2,500 - 3,000
Bundled Up, Volume 6
Quintain Poems 3,000 - 3,500
Bundled Up, Volume 7
Quintain Poems 3,500 - 4,000
Bundled Up, Volume 8
Quintain Poems 4,000 - 4,500
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Quintain Poems 4,500 - 5,000
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Quintains: 3,500+ Quintains (Free Online)
Quintain Sonnet Forms ( 554, 5252, 555, 553 )
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Poetry Sections on this Webpage
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Bundled Up:
Poetry By Mike Garofalo
Bundled Up, Volume 1
Quintain Poems 1 - 1,000
Bundled Up, Volume 2
Quintain Poems 1,000 - 1,500
Bundled Up, Volume 3
Quintain Poems 1,500 - 2,000
Bundled Up, Volume 4
Quintain Poems 2,000 - 2,500
Bundled Up, Volume 5
Quintain Poems 2,500 - 3,000
Bundled Up, Volume 6
Quintain Poems 3,000 - 3,500
Bundled Up, Volume 7
Quintain Poems 3,500 - 4,000
Bundled Up, Volume 8
Quintain Poems 4,000 - 4,500
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Quintain Poems 4,500 - 5,000
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Quintains: 3,500+ Quintains (Free Online)
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Poetry Sections on this Webpage
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Bundled Up:
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Bundled Up, Volume 1
Quintain Poems 1 - 1,000
Bundled Up, Volume 2
Quintain Poems 1,000 - 1,500
Bundled Up, Volume 3
Quintain Poems 1,500 - 2,000
Bundled Up, Volume 4
Quintain Poems 2,000 - 2,500
Bundled Up, Volume 5
Quintain Poems 2,500 - 3,000
Bundled Up, Volume 6
Quintain Poems 3,000 - 3,500
Bundled Up, Volume 7
Quintain Poems 3,500 - 4,000
Bundled Up, Volume 8
Quintain Poems 4,000 - 4,500
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Quintain Poems 4,500 - 5,000
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Poetry Sections on this Webpage
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Bundled Up:
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Bundled Up, Volume 1
Quintain Poems 1 - 1,000
Bundled Up, Volume 2
Quintain Poems 1,000 - 1,500
Bundled Up, Volume 3
Quintain Poems 1,500 - 2,000
Bundled Up, Volume 4
Quintain Poems 2,000 - 2,500
Bundled Up, Volume 5
Quintain Poems 2,500 - 3,000
Bundled Up, Volume 6
Quintain Poems 3,000 - 3,500
Bundled Up, Volume 7
Quintain Poems 3,500 - 4,000
Bundled Up, Volume 8
Quintain Poems 4,000 - 4,500
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Quintain Poems 4,500 - 5,000
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Poetry Sections on this Webpage
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Bundled Up:
Poetry By Mike Garofalo
Bundled Up, Volume 1
Quintain Poems 1 - 1,000
Bundled Up, Volume 2
Quintain Poems 1,000 - 1,500
Bundled Up, Volume 3
Quintain Poems 1,500 - 2,000
Bundled Up, Volume 4
Quintain Poems 2,000 - 2,500
Bundled Up, Volume 5
Quintain Poems 2,500 - 3,000
Bundled Up, Volume 6
Quintain Poems 3,000 - 3,500
Bundled Up, Volume 7
Quintain Poems 3,500 - 4,000
Bundled Up, Volume 8
Quintain Poems 4,000 - 4,500
Bundled Up, Volume 9
Quintain Poems 4,500 - 5,000
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Bundled Up:
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Poetry By Michael P. Garofalo
Pulling Onions
1,000 Quips, Opinions, and One-Liners
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Arranged by Months
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Quintain Poems 1,000 - 1,500
Bundled Up, Volume 3
Quintain Poems 1,500 - 2,000
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Quintain Poems 3,500 - 4,000
Bundled Up, Volume 8
Quintain Poems 4,000 - 4,500
Bundled Up, Volume 9
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