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Premium MemberStay Cool

...I'd love to tag along with you
To be right by your side
To do the things you want to do
Whatever you decide
I wouldn't cause you trouble 
I wouldn't act the fool
What you'd do I'd double 
Beca...
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Categories: act the fool, dedication, devotion, i love
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhere the Grass Don't Grow

...Where the Grass Don't Grow

The historical record bared to see
In worn-torn pages, undecipherable.
And I’m to believe that this sum total
Will explain everything you say to me.

Mixed w...
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Categories: act the fool, humor, perspective,
Form: Verse



Beware Falling In Love With a Poet

..."Beware falling in love with a poet"

Those who know
They are inaudible for others
When they meet they see themselves in each other

The" old kid " from fear he's not free
What does she think ...
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Categories: act the fool, meaningful, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme

My Last and Best Hope

...(...surely goodness and mercy will follow me all of my days and I will dwell in the House of the Lord, forever. Psalm 23:6) 

Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, angels three,
Have been following me all ...
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Categories: act the fool, hope, humorous,
Form: Sonnet

My Last and Best Hope

......surely goodness and mercy will follow me all of my days and I will dwell in the House of the Lord, forever. Psalm 23:6

Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, angels three
Have been following me all of m...
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Categories: act the fool, bible, hope, humorous, sin,
Form: Sonnet



Premium MemberGrace and Solitude

...It would be easy to lose our heads and panic
What would we gain to act the fool or manic
Pent up energy not spent on anxiety and stressing
Is better focused on appreciating our every blessing

A...
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Categories: act the fool, angst, anxiety, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberYesterday

...Yesterday when I was young
a life full of delight
we ran and played 
in fields and streams 
for morning till last light 

yesterday  when I was young 
a life that’s full of wonder 
of birds a...
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Categories: act the fool, childhood,
Form: I do not know?

My Last Hope

...(...surely goodness and mercy will follow me all of my days and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:6)

Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, angels three
Have been protecting me all of...
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Categories: act the fool, angel, hope, how i
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberNews

...To act the fool
Is to not be a fool


Global warming
Intense drought


Melting polar caps
Flooding waters


Freak climate change
Out-of-control heatwave


Man-made abuse
Nature now f...
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Categories: act the fool, change,
Form: Free verse

People That Struggle Don'T Need Pain

...Friends came around 
upset and angry 
with their children
a child's fist
flew through the wall

It's your fault 
the child said
It's your fault
my life is like this

several arguments
go ...
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Categories: act the fool, anti bullying, childhood,
Form: Narrative

Where My Dreams Have Led

...Where My Dreams Have Led
By Roy Merritt

My baby ain’t got no teeth
She ain’t got no toes
She ain’t got no mouth nor ears 
Nor has she got a nose
She ain’t got no eyes
She ain’t got no arms o...
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Categories: act the fool, appreciation, confidence, romance, silly,
Form: Lyric

Do You Like Me

...Sometimes I sit and wonder
What you see in me.
I’m not always the nicest guy around: 
Do you just choose not to see?

I don’t always say the right thing:
Put my foot in it often as not.
My big...
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Categories: act the fool, anxiety, feelings, introspection, relationship,
Form: Couplet

Mockery

...A nosegay is just a bunch of flowers 
The 'Gift' is a bunch of special powers
A day is just twenty-four hours
Lemons and limes are a pair of sours

A poem is a group of words that rhyme
(At lea...
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Categories: act the fool, humorous, satire,
Form: Couplet

My Time, His Place

...With what seems like lightening speed, time flies by,
The world as you knew it is gone, in a flash, in a sigh.

And all you really catch are glimpses of life here and there,
Sometimes the picture...
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Categories: act the fool, freedom, god, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme Royal

If You Would Just Hear Me Out

...Nobody wants to hear a boring story.


'specially when voices drone, monotone 
like an ancient documentary recording
 
or there’s so much "peace" and "happiness" 
you begin to doubt sincerity ...
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Categories: act the fool, character, irony, me, self,
Form: Free verse

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