Best 20 Poems

MEMO for Destroyer Poet A Linda: 3. 20 p.m., 23rd April 2013 – Paris, France
  
If you are Red   I am Brown
If you’re not 
Then as one concrete painter using phonemes 
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I’ve received an incredible gift 
It has given my heart such a lift 
But the date that I see 
Is what now concerns me  –
It’s the date I no longer exist!!! 

Today I was gifted a 'lifetime' premium membership but it is somewhat disconcerting...

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By Starlight 

How proud stands the willow
in silhouette of twilight skies.
The willow never weeps alone, 
tears of joy stream down cheeks
at the footbridge where she 
touched the water, where
Moonbeams dance
In the land beneath falling stars, 
In the land of purple thunder as 
Lightning strikes in...

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Swan Lake 
Toes ache

Can't sleep
Count sheep

Eat slow
Don't throw

Won race
First place

Do crime 
Serve time 

Drink gin
Room spin

Keep fit
Don't sit 

Up late
Bed waits

Cold spell
Wrap well

Don't smoke
You'll choke

Don't bore 
They'll snore 

Drink wine 
Cloud nine

Black ice
Think twice

Good wife
No strife

Aim high
Touch sky

First kiss
Don't miss

Dry plains
Need rains

Red rose
Pleased nose 

Beach...

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In the quiet still moment there is balance,
A true nothingness equidistant from fear and elation,
To perch in this place can be unsettling,
As I have been trained to accept the effort of wanting something else,
I must grow comfortable accepting what is....

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Is it easy to look back on the trauma of past
It’s like taking the knife out my back
It cuts going both ways creating path
Oh but we cried oh but we laughed
Little girls playing with dolls in the basement
Unaware of monsters and dangers that cement
The innocence...

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~~ The  Rabbit and the Fox   ~~  20 line Ballad
The Rabbit and the Fox
The Rabbit and the Fox are here
go down south, to Australia
They have a bounty on the Fox
Bring in his skin they’ll pay ya

Myxameatosis germ warfare  (first ever)
Just...

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You asked me yesterday my love
If I would become your wife
Let me tell you that forevermore
You will only be in my life.


There’s something I must say to you
These things my love are true
You must never forget these words I say
Because my darling, I love you.


My...

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A handsome man, a valiant son,
John Kennedy was he.
A man who rose to President
with civil rights the key.

Who can forget the many days
like Camelot they seemed,
when all eyes were on Washington,
they passed just like a dream.

Ah, we remember Jacqueline
a Vassar deb was she,
who walked with...

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Sometimes I can't believe it
It all happened so fast
Real life is truly here
Just who is that looking at me in the mirror?
How come these bills are addressed to my name?
It's like I went to sleep and woke up
And I'm all grown up

Sometimes I miss the...

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a white plastic bag
flutters in a bare tree --
the sound of geese...

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mourning cloak passing
       wing beats of a butterfly
          the softest of drums...

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Haiku 6/20/2016

cool breeze on warm dew
huddled petals awaken
stunned artists weep


John G. Lawless
6/20/2016...

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wet mug of a deer —
the peaceful lake alluring
in the pine forest

4/20/2019...

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I was coming up on 60, when I found a lump in my left breast.
One day of anxiety turned into two weeks of tribulation
as I returned again and again to the hospital for tests.
At last, I got my verdict: level 2 estrogen-driven cancer.
At this time,...

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