Best Average Poems

Once again, the powers that must
In rise again in what we trust
An overseas conflict, another war
Just what in the hell are we fighting for

Families are asking, Korea has just passed
Generations again reft, how long will it last
A country in need, to rebuild again
Flags at half...

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Never 
You
Love
Lord...

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Amid, amid, amid, amid,
In the middle,
Between never and everlasting,
A haven for people idle,
A place that never is.
Began and built in imagination,
By ones who avoid
The cheap price of success,
Yet convinced they belong to success.
And they fall free to an imagination.
Calling the world unfair,
They become unfair to...

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When it comes right down to it, I'm an average joe
With a lifetime of contentment and friends that I owe
Without them life sucks
The happiness door shuts
We're left in the cold with nothing to show...

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Excuse me mister, you just walked by
You eyed me up and down and acted real sly
You came real close and as you walked past
You looked like you wanted to grab my ass!
I will demand you stop with that very thought
Over this fine behind, many fights...

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I will sing the song of the average man
Who was born a child-not a babe
Who grew up in an ordinary house?
Made of bricks without ivy cascades
He went to an ordinary school like the rest
Hated math, hated science, loved lunch
Gave a report on Abe Lincoln-read Goodnight...

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The water 
The spring 
The sparrow that sings 
The grass 
The field 
The cotton 
The chains 
The whips 
The whoops 
The ache 
The bones 
The blood 
Oh heavenly father 
The blood 
The feet 
The guns 
The street 
The wounds 
The woods 
The hounds 
The men...

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(alternately titled one me silly more till manufactured 
from go win addle American 
non refundable private parts) 

each set of twenty three chromosomes 
the basic biological building blocks
of life came out cervix 
when second hand of analog clocks 

barely and scarcely swept across dial,
wrought offspring...

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When he was just a baby
Upon his mama's knee,
He was smaller than an elephant,
And larger than a flea.

And when he was some older,
And had to go to school,
He was duller than a genius,
And sharper than a fool.

Then, when he was a young man,
In the prime...

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He’s just your average lazy bum — 
a sweet, lovable loser
Who loves to stick his index finger
high in the air,
and tell you he’s number one
When in fact, technically,
his favorite sports team is
It’s success by association, 
as he moons the neighborhood kids
Because he don’t have much...

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I'm not a great thinker, a stinker, yes
Just an average old joe, I must confess
What I have to give
Is a great way to live
Wake with a smile as your body you caress


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Just Another Average Christmas

Just another average Christmas, not especially good nor bad,
When everyone says dinner was the best they’ve ever had.
When Mother works her fingers off with no respite nor leisure,
But keeps her best face forward and pretends it’s all a pleasure.

Just another average Christmas,...

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An army of mites reside on our lashes
With mouths and tiny claws
Along the way during human evolution
This surely must have been a flaw

Astronauts strangely can't burp in space
What kind of dribble is that
A feline can have over a hundred kittens
Now that's one pooped out cat

Some...

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This is the family,
The completely normal family,
That lives just across the street,
With a daughter,
a son,
a mother,
and a father. 
The father, like any, is a unicorn tamer.
The mother is, of course, the queen of fairies.
The son is a hunter, a hunter of wild things.
The daughter is...

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The average person, 
just wants the same, 
as everybody else,
they want the money,

To feed and protect 
their children,
so if your country, 
is in poverty,

people will create armies,
to try and make a better world,
people will put their family first,
and other people second,

The solution to world problems,
is...

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