Best 2006 Poems

FOB Echo Iraq was a forward operation base near the Babylon site in the city of Diwaniya, in fact the US military put security hesco and fencing around the ruins for protection from all of the goons in the region. This was a hot base...

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Yes George! There is a Santa Claus! 
The troops want out.
But you want to pout.
With your nose in the air.
A great big snout.
The war in Iraq.
We know it is past.
We know it is past.
But you want to laugh.
You don't have to lie.
You should actually cry.
Yes...

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There is a kingdom inside all of us,
That follows us wherever we go,
It was God that put us here,
It is God that takes us back,
We don’t know when, we don’t know how,
Our beloved Lolo, will take our love and our memories along with him to...

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Inside my heart there was an empty space,
it was waiting for you.
Something changed in my life, a sudden burst of happiness came over me,
a reality so true.

I always felt something was missing,
until the day I see your face.
You brought something new to my world, so...

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So young and so in love
       in a marriage from above-
Countless surgeries on my
ovaries,
How much can one woman
             suffer through?
The allure of having a baby 
 ...

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So sorry, Pluto! You cannot be deemed
		“ninth planet” anymore because there’s been
		a redefining that eliminates
		you from the list of planets. Since you’re kin

		to the remaining eight, you will be called
		“dwarf planet.” This downsizing of the list
		must be a blow to your esteem. Please know
		some people...

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Should my city have been treated like a hotel?
should someone have checked for the vacancy or no vacancy
before we let a bunch of rich people move in
to jack up our rental rates before Christmas
and send five thousand people homeless?
Should we have said sorry but no...

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A TRUE STORY.....(honest engine!!)  This is fine country living !!
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T'was the night after New Years, and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings and tree stored away with a sigh
Finished the last drop of eggnog, and the last...

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Whats in the news today
and how much snow is on the ground
they say in the paper there is 2 600 homeless people
in my home city
but word of mouth and the people who work in the centers
estimate its more like 5000

so I ask
is this...

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SEDUCTION OF A MAIDEN   Song Lyrics
   By Victoria Anderson-Throop
        first draft notes penned on the moors of England in May 2006     (call also means visit)


I remember
   When its...

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When I wrote and posted my poem about nightmares earlier I had totally forgotten about the following poem. I found it today going through a box of books. It's more of a brevity piece. Although at the time I wouldn't have known to call it...

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And they don't believe me

But I hope you will because baby I'm falling under

And no one understands the truth about me.

I tried today and I'll try tomorrow

But I'm never going to pull through

Don't tell me this fate isn't so.

 

I'm at the lowest point in...

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Smiles run across their faces

But I am beyond mellow

I want to run far away

But I want to never leave

I want to change

But I love myself

I want to go further

but I fear change

I want to succeed

I want to cut through my depression

I want to go on

I...

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The ground is turning 
and I'm still yearning 
and I all I want is you
and I hope you want me too
I'm still wishing 
soon maybe I'll be done fishing 
Cause you'll be
that right fish in the sea...

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It is thanksgiving 2006 let me see what I have to give thanks for.  I live in country 
that is in a war with no end in sight, and because of it racial profile is seen as 
being all right.  Thanks!  A...

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