Alta
...When I walked in the room,
I saw no sign of you,
your shoes or your jacket new,
even your car was gone.
Called up all of our friends,
knew nothing on their ends,
no message did you send,
or no...
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Categories:
also ran, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Rhyme
PETERS **** FORT MYERS FLORIDA CHILD **** LIST CONTINUES
...PETER GARGANO AND MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND **** OPERATION THE WATCHERS CAMERAS WATCHIBG TOTS FROM THREE TI 10 AFTER THAT THE OPERATION EMERGED MANY MISSING KIDS ALL IVER THE WORLD BECAUSE THE CHILD ****...
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Categories:
also ran, allah,
Form: Naat
Lemming
...I’m as pragmatic as a lemming
The most important day I missed
Stayed in my hole cause it was raining
Didn’t want my destiny to meet
And probably she thought the same
Had mixed me for another one...
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Categories:
also ran, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Metamorphosis
...What is a man,
Who can tell,
A master plan,
An empty shell,
A force of good,
A source of bad,
A thought he should,
A wish he had,
A volunteer,
To help us out,
Should we appear,
To be i...
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Categories:
also ran, appreciation, men,
Form: Rhyme
Big Red
...Where fire’s rage
no flame unfanned
The cinch retightened
no also ran
As horns go silent
the gate is dropped
On victory’s path
his legend cropped
Unbridled passion
distraction flees
A...
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Categories:
also ran, horse,
Form: Rhyme
IF ONLY YOU KNEW
...
Your sultry sensual look I still embrace
As I think of those mesmerizing violet eyes,
My heart then quickens and starts to race,
If only you knew what you still do to me.
Whose fault was it t...
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Categories:
also ran, love,
Form: Free verse
To Which Image Should We Cling
...
I am but one now, and not another prior
Never before have I trodden this path
Never before have I lived this hour
I need not do the history or the math
If my history consisted of endless da...
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Categories:
also ran, christian, god,
Form: Rhyme
Winter
...Am I but the stirring of a seasoned stew
The madness of a game that summer threw
Hard edge of a canyon wall at dawn
Towering above a trembling, speckled fawn
Must I be a raging lion or timid ...
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Categories:
also ran, seasons,
Form: List
A Poor, Wayfaring Man of Grief, Part 4
...A poor, wayfaring man of grief, has shared his truth with me,
For he has walked the winding road of life's great mystery,
Behold, the man, the truth at last, is ready to be shared,
His message is ...
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Categories:
also ran, christian, happiness, inspirational, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Life's Untorn Page
...I moved to San Francisco from across the bay in early 1977. At 19 years old, dad got me a two-bedroom house in the San Francisco suburb known as the Ocean District. It was the type of home that adjoi...
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Categories:
also ran, america, analogy, bereavement, children,
Form: Other
And First Place Goes To --
...The body houses the soul
that is its primary role
But with all of the body's demands
the poor soul is an also-ran...
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Categories:
also ran, body, caregiving, irony,
Form: Couplet
Oh This Frisson, Thrill of Lies
...Hair gets grey, withers he but seldom wise
To know why nothing thrills him more than lies,
Why man’s pen portrays obscure truths in grey,
Why his mind’s chisel carves out misty clout
So grote...
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Categories:
also ran, truth,
Form: Ode
God Like, Not So Different
...
“God like, not so different”
She wrote,
“where do you go to my lovely?”
my response,
“I sink into the screen
like a scream queen goddess,
I am Lilith most of the t...
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Categories:
also ran, muse,
Form: Narrative
Head and Heart
...The measure of a man?
Does his heart expand?
Is he a man who can,
Or simply, 'An also ran?'
Is he able to understand?
Is his head above the sand?...
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Categories:
also ran, men,
Form: Rhyme
Dena's Life's Story the Early Years
...We also liked to play on the monkey bars during recess. One day Dena's skirt
fell off and she was so embarrassed that every body laughed at her. Dena
pulled up her skirt and ran for class. She w...
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Categories:
also ran, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Narrative
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