Best Asked Poems

Recently being on holiday at Strathpeffer
one day taking a countryside walk
so pleasant walking among the woods
time passed by noticing no clock

Having walked quite a fair distance
decided to turn around to walk back
then halfway along met a man
who was struggling along the track

this man stopped us...

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"The Immigration Officer Asked Me."

I was asked where are you coming from?
I answered I ran away from the war in my
country.?

I was asked how many years the war lasted?
I answered there was war for sixteen years
we were bombarded daily attacked by militia
on our way to...

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If
I were asked, my dear
What in you I would like
To change,
My answer, emphatically,
NOTHING, would be, 
Unchanged, I wish you 
To remain,

FOR

How could I dare interfere
With your splendid being in
Any way, 
When 
Our Lord, in HIS infinite wisdom,
Has you, my love,
So 
Perfectly MADE?



©Demetrios Trifiatis
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He was howling at the moon,
it was mid June's heyday, she
was naive beyond reproach
her innocently lit chiaroscuro 
made him hunger all the more,
til one day she let down her guard
'neath an impatient violaceous sky
drinking effervescently blissed wine 
kissed him with rosé  blushed lips 
...

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I sit in lambskin slippers
and jackets by the score.
I find it hard to pay for heat
The oil is costing MORE?

I squint through specks 
the scripts too old
At times I’m VERY quiet,
at times I’m  very bold!

I eat raw bits of fishies
on dishies by the score,
and...

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You asked me the other day,  my dear friend,
How come I:

Think of you,
Worry about you,
Care for you?

Feel your grief and partake in your joy?

Share your dreams and face your fears?

You were not able to understand the reason I stand by your side
In moments of:

Success...

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Face to face, eye to eye
I stand tall and stay firm
My voice does not raise
And my tone does not change
I might listen... if I feel like it
But chances are...I won't believe you
I already know the words
The story is always the same

You are unchanging, but need...

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One day, one time, God spoke to me.
The Creator who knows everything supposedly,
had a question that needed answering from yours truly.
"You're always helping others in need less fortunate than you,
and many of these people aren't particularly liked by you.
Why do you do all of the...

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so i asked the lad
he was at work with his mother
she manages a laundromat
where one may only need machines
but there is a service of clean and fold
for us single elderly gentlemen
what is your favorite candy bar
snickers he replied
and what flower is your favorite
hmmm.... i like...

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He asked me if I could … 
show him how I move 
so guess what I did…
I showed him my tactics on how I move and 
how he should move with me. 
He asked me if I could…
show him how to love 
so guess what...

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She asked a question, not so long ago...
someone I know just through our garden club.
"Why do you write so much...it seems a chore,
especially because it's not your job?"

So stunned I was that she put it this way!
It surely knocked the wind right out of me.
I...

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Poetry should never answer,
—more questions than it asks

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)...

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I asked my future

and the crystal ball revealed

the future for me

was the same one for us all. . . 

what we give. .  . earth shall give back


March 7, 2020 for Brenda Chiri's Picture Prompt Poetry Contest...

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To speak plainly
So you can understand my thoughts

To translate my dialects
With greater complacency

But, you cannot touch my smile.

You cannot touch my smile
Exhaling from these lips through
Liquid monitors

My words are my heartbeats.

They don’t hang onto cliff…
...notes.

This infinite Victorian ink
Will not be filtered
For you, I promise

…

You asked...

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The six steep slopes they gave me..  
yes, all were mine.

I can give them to you..
if you wish them.

Though they tend to be.,
unkind. 

Don't wait for them to love,
or understand, 
or forgive..

It's not their way.

They serve only to light a path,
show you the way.

Discover...

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