Best A Few(A) Poems

I've been to many places.
     Seen so many things.
This is where I'll stay, my friends,
     Where the bell of freedom rings.
But let me tell a story,
     Of bells in other lands.
And how they...

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So, I'm told I have 100 billion neurons
(by someone ignorant of youth's indiscretions)
each with about a thousand synapses,
to connect its own specific grandeur or fear
to a grand of other neurons and their neuroses

and all of these cadre's and feeling tentacles
are always moving - reaching -...

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Once upon a time, there were two little villages, Rowling and Tolkien, that lived in peace with each other.  Rowling and Tolkien had many, many children, some very young, others young, and a few a little older, who loved to listen to fairytales told...

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Hello hello hello
Can you see me?
Darling please
Just look at me

Did you forget?
What we had
Did you forget?
That I am yours? 

Months ago, just a few a years ago
I thought we were friends forever
Now days ago, just a few hours ago
I was forced too let it all...

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In 1989 I rode the duty train with covered windows across the East German countryside, forewarned not to look outside.  I arrived in that island of freedom, which was surrounded by oppression, tyranny, and more tank divisions than NATO had in all their armies...

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Polluted wonder in my life.
Swim I do, dead fish strife.
Tiny pipe - mercury asunder.
Hidden death, waters wonder.
Mixed a few a new invention.
Empty earth with no prevention.
Silent death - acid rain plunder.
Don't wonder it's no blunder.
Lime song blues take it away.
Empty lake, brown grass sways.
Void earth...

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A deluge was in that first drop that fell
Water from the heavens to wash away the hell.
Raindrops beyond number, as many as the stars
Each one adding to the other, as rising water starts.

A deluge laid waiting in the depths of the ground
Water from below to...

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MIRACLES

What’s next
On the long list of  miracles?
Talk of ‘thin air’
(He seemed to vanish into thin air)
Yes!
But is the air really thin?
It seems    from past discoveries    the air is loaded
      loaded with particles not...

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Liquid Moods

A river lives in many moods.

Serenely flowing, it paints a peaceful oil
Of powerful tranquility.
It’s strength is hidden within it’s flow
And life is sustained within it’s course.

When dancing, happily over riffles, rocks and shoals
It sings songs of enthusiastic happiness.
Like first love it excites, then wanes.
The...

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Poetry Soup Decided

What if I were eventually to respond
By writing poem with my magic wand
And as the wild wand will start to wave
I had become some sort of poetry slave.
(as the wild wand (not WANT) will start to wave)

Wrote poem after poem to my delight
About...

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A home we hear is just a place for us to hang our hat,
But I would like to show you a home is so much more that that.
A home is for your newborn who enter this world alone,
And where else would you take them if...

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when it was all blue
the sky, the water and my eyes
i tossed the idea around
but i was late to the party
so making up for lost time
we stumbled upon a few dance steps 
and ended up 
buying a house...raising a few a cats
and laughing about those...

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It seems fitting
To reach for the bottle
That's what society tells you to do

When your life is in free fall
You either starve yourself or reach for the bottle
Its really up to you

I can do both
Keeping up my appearance
Slim girl, a mind sharp as a knife

Only tonight...

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We drive home in the rain -
a hectoring spray.

The car is preoccupied;
four significands -
a dog,
an ex-wife,
a son
and a prevailing spouse.
There are gossiping ghosts also;
past memories too damp now to be defined. 

Some link arms and whisper together.
Some stare at the back of my head.
The living...

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The George Chronicles : I'm Here

Early last evening I left home from work
I had you on my mind.....
passing the same roads I took before
nothing has changed but I wished for...
time to slow down...
I hit a few lights some even green
still on my race ..just to...

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