Best Adjourning Poems

From 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary.

Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men 
Who persist to query me on matters they know I must ignore. 
As I parry, neatly jinking, Tapper stares at me,...

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So slick and sexy.  Purred past Temple Bar.
That throaty engine advertising punch.
All legal London, strolling out for lunch,
with turning heads declared, “Now that’s a car!”

So many barristers are – if not losers, 
low earners and slow learners.  I was one.
I, plodding back from...

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Patience is a virtual, it is not easily obtained  but once
you achieve it, you will never be the same.  It is like a road-map
just waiting to be read, for patience will make you strong and you
want be mislead.  

Patience is compared to...

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I heard about God
In a church full of strangers
Who dutifully regurgitated words
Before enthusiastically adjourning to the bar.

I whispered to God
"Can you hear? Are you real?"
I opened my ears, expecting His reply
But my ears failed, like my memorized prayers.

I reached up to God
Desperate for the touch...

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To who do I owe this dance? A playful game of the mind.
Twisting and turning I ask only one with partners adjourning.
All for one and one for all to end the night with bliss amiss....

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SOMETIMES        RED



It happens when  I see  a little boy kick a kitten
Or someone’s  three-year-old children 
Having a tantrum in a supermarket
And the parents doing  nothing but watch it
And I say to myself  oh...

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Steamy summer love made our set.
Hot summer night, when we first met.
I kissed her neck; she looked in my eyes.
Drunk in mind and heart, to our surprise,
She took my hand; we kissed our first kiss.
I knew then, that night, it would be no miss.
Upon the...

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12/13/23



Secrets still buried
Stories in the wind got carried
Historical accounts occasionally varied
The truth can be sad and scary
We've barely
Discovered much so spare me
The same can be said for things happening fairly
Since the dawn of time it occurred rarely


Causes with a dark past humans still worshipping
The cauldron...

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Philly in pink haze

Skyscrapers tucked deftly
behind a string of trees

car trucking along Girard
unaware of amaranth mist
slowly adjourning into dark...

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what piece of Peace shall i come in
when you look through the peephole,
does a pitchfork illuminate your adjectives of me
to make ammends, i attempt to prepare reconstruction soup
dismal is your evenly distorted reaction,
and it spreads like a plague colorfully seducing

what piece of Peace shall i...

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I Am No Longer Young

I Am No Longer Young and had a yearning,
That became a desire which was burning;
A great game,
For you to name;
Find out why Congress again is adjourning.

Jim Horn...

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Might I'm wielding,
Coping dealing...
Blight unyielding,
Prying, peeling.

Writhing turning,
Twisting churning...
Mindless  yearning,
Lauding, purring.

Stomach keeling,
Curdling, reeling...
Now  repealing,
Good sense of being.

Thoughts  reverting,
Sleepless,  spurning...
Legs-a-stirring,
Nae adjourning.

Whipping wheeling,
Grip congealing...
Hope that  healing,
Smites these feelings....

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The grandkids have gone back to school
Eight-thirty ‘til eleven,
The days too short for even them,
At ages five and seven.

We walked them there and picked them up
But classes weren’t adjourning;
Instead, the laptops came on board
For blocks of online learning.

We’re in way over both our heads
On mouseless...

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crisp chills at even
purple sun's among the stars
moon tangoes with Mars

gone the pinks and blues
prim garden club's adjourning
quite disappointing

squirrels gather nuts
red maple leaves in motion
green pine devotion

such black cherry skies
memories of morning gone
joys 'ere shades are drawn...

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Some memories concern, effrontery
is always yearn, like countenance sojourning.
Unkinds its words in retrospect's home turning,
first lifts remind, then drops behind with slurring!

So I can find in grace's mind occurring,
as when thy presence binds me with returning
to God's comply, a promise asking, burning,
like some residual's pry...

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