Best And Other Poems

Wiggling Waves and Other Observations

Wiggling waves reaching like tall grass,
Summertime’s warning to wear shoes,
Little stubbed toes from bare flip flops,
Tears, scrapes, little ones’ blues.

Searing sidewalks too hot for pups’ paws,
Compassion let’s a walk miss this day,
Steering wheels blistering, electricity soaring,
Rob a bank to get power...

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Maybe he ate his vitamins and their minerals and oranges and apples all at once again and again
Or ran laughing down the rugged rocks of a ruthless reality
Maybe he flew singing up to the cold concrete ceiling on a chair
Or drank dated dark liquid from...

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Who promised you life would be easy?
Who whispered this excuse?
How can pain be an addition to the life experience?
Answers provided are inadequate to the task.
Who will sit with you and hold you in the unknown?

In the silence of the morning,
I listen for the sound of...

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'O starry night ----
  with the soul of the world in your silver eyes,
  I came with nothing this ancient trek,
  this aged morsel, I am;
  and found you crowning the misted moon....
  and pale-lit the swooning shadows this eve,
...

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Attempting imagery after googling it once
This was supposed to be the blurb
But it's becoming the poem
My measure of success 
Is getting it right, with minimal effort
Because when I try 
And no one notices
I get a bit...
I don't know, maybe 
Splaying and unsplaying my fingers
Like I've...

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*** I am re-posting this poem since it bloomed on a rainy day and I would like to share again on this New Year's day***


O starry night ----
  with the soul of the world in your silver eyes,
  I came with nothing this...

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shattered glass,
all over the floor.
my feet bleed,
but I still want more.

some years ago,
you started a war.
I loved you once,
never again I, swore.

you paint me evil,
but I disagree.
you disliked yourself,
and took it out on me.

these marks that you’ve left
are starting to wear.
I can’t be who you...

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The Soul Errand
To Sir Walter Raleigh Tomb.

Since my soul shall though go
Upon a thankless arrent too
I fear not to touch the best so
The truth shall be my warrant through 
I went since I need must die 
To gave the world the lie.

I say to the...

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There once was a man who ate nothing but prunes
He was broke and howled at the moon
He was desperate for work
And got some soon
Blowing up air ballons.


There was a man from pakistan
Who owned an old ice cream van
But the ice cream melted in the sun
Poor...

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Sheep

next door to 19 chimneys
and 'the dark satanic mills'
a flock of sheep is grazing
oblivious in the hills.



Other Animals

goblin sharks and pangolins
sea pigs, star-nosed moles

mata matas, sugar gliders
shoats and water voles.


aye-ayes, dik-diks, wobbegongs
chicken turtles, loons

shoebills, snipes and yeti crabs
and cozumel raccoons.


pink fairy armadillos
bilbys, 52-hertz whales

the red-lipped...

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my anxiety is like a straightjacket 
i'm desperately moving against the restraints
but the longer and harder i resist 
the weaker i become 
and my anxiety is like a roadmap 
taking me to the darkest parts of myself 
and i can see that these thoughts and...

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As I sat in my room on a stormy night,
something startled me with such a fright!

Through a crack in the door of my private domain, 
came a screech as high-pitched as brakes on a train. 

I caught a glimpse of a reflection in my closet...

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For Children of War and Other Deceptions

The load of time
weigh heavy 
on the yokes of life;
the unshelled shelled.
Gone.
Innocence of children
preyed upon;
life failed to root itself.

Janus face war genuflects
craving forgiveness; 
praising its necessity....

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my thong is on fire 
i'm up for hire 
but no one will 
so i started selling pills
i needed the cash
but then somebody found my stash
it wasn't even drugs just mashed up smarties
so no one's gonna be getting high at their parties
this life is just...

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Cobwebs And Other Nonessentials

There are things we often tend to forget.
Unimportant though they seem to be.
Clothes in a dryer, not started, still wet.
I'm sure it's happened to you and me.

The gathering of cobwebs in a corner,
And dust left high on the top shelf, 
May make...

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