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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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SOMETIMES        RED



It happens when  I see  a little boy kick a kitten
Or someone’s  three-year-old children...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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As interruption wanes with cares of how
a promise then,  I have by Godly vow,
an ever more to strengthen thee enow
so strengthening, I grip my...

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