Best Accomplice Poems

silence is wisdom's accomplice whose crime is creativity...

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There was a time.

There was a time
When your fabled dreams
Seemed honest

A time when
Your open arms
Coated in dented silver and tainted dreams
Understood my Size 12 shoes

When...

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The Minions 
Minions Contest
Sponsor: Silent One


A versifier indeed, crowding the tiny city dwellers,
above the rest flying with the strongest propeller.

In day he disperses many tiny...

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As I think back to that dark time in our community I don’t know if I’d ever seen anyone quite 
like that (Cinder Girl). We...

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That first kiss--De-lish! Smooth like Hagendaaz!
I was in my fourteenth year, too green to see his flaws.

I, the skinny Yankee teen with glasses on her...

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On one bright and sunny morning, verses a dark and stormy night, of course!
Dragon stood at ‘The Dragon and Sheriff Statue’, in the Mayhem Falls...

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A Little Kindness Never Hurts

Her bad reputation was talk of our small town
she'd rush out to get mail in her flimsy nightgown
rumors spread about her...

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I want to keep you safe from all this harm
The shouting the hitting so you keep Calm
I am determined to stop him touching you
He never...

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He possessed a razor sharp mind
Slicing through problems 
With a surgeon like precision
All the while dancing at the edge of sanity
One brilliant moment at a...

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The False Dichotomy of My 
Descent...



Falling,
beyond the precipice,
into this gaping chasm. 



Numbness ensues,

whirling emptiness,

swirling around and around,

in the recesses of my mind,

as it plummets,

in silent...

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I only tell of sunny hours...
The cheerful makings of memories
Cloudy bouts to be forgotten
Nights meant for relaxation
Each a designated pause between
Sunfilled enjoyment and adventures
I only...

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I Don’t Want

I don’t want my boy to grow up,
I don’t want my child to age,
I don’t want his hair to thin and grey,
or fear...

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What temprate joy began with

Such afterglow took away

Once forensic dissertation 
dismantling the evidence sends

When massaged vanity and 
guily platitudes are subsidised
overcome by inertial reality

As fraud...

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Oh well I got an angry email to begin my day
Because of my last post on the Jabidah thing yesterday
Galit sa akin but greeted me...

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He looked out at the snow and ice,
As a cold wind whistled winter
Through the door, bringing hope
Of making a real-life snowman,
A special friend for a...

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