Best Avery Poems

William (Billy) Avery mailman extraordinaire for ten years 
His beautiful loving wife, Irene, Loved beyond this World
I remember the day Billy was skipping down the...

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life itself is an ocean

full of whales and sharks

sometimes swimming, sometimes sailing

sometimes surviving in an ark

don't be scared John Henry

just avoid the guns and knives

stay...

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“SUMMER”



Where 
has Summer 
gone?

The world 
has lost 
Summer

Sweet 
little 
dream

missing 

all those other 
beautiful  
small dreams 

seen as toys
small and 
inconsequential 

casually tossed aside,...

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His gold teeth glistened in the sun
As ‘Long Ben Avery’ turned
To face his captives, head lowered,
Their providence to learn

For Avery was a pirate bold
Trained in...

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The woman in the back blowing her horn
 She is in a hurry to go
 As I comes to a complete stop
 After the traffic...

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Behind caution tape, I stand in the shade
watching a wrecking ball, tethered to sway
And soon with a gasp from the crowd standing by
A piece of...

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The woman in the back blowing her horn
 She is in a hurry to go
 As I comes to a complete stop
 After the traffic...

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"A World Inside - Love's Glamour"



See the golden chord
it extends beyond,
resides inside your world

you remain connected
the true Love
never lets you go

somersault backwards
then forwards like a...

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"How clear can art be?" Salvador asked,
"when surrealism is the order-of-the-day,
the order of my dreams, and for sale
at the gallery down one block and over...

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(Eliza strokes the door. A thought is visibly pushing through her mind)

Eliza: I think...I want to know.

Martha: How does it feel?#

Eliza: There''s something there. Right...

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I told myself before she was born I would never put her in any form of torment but it feels like she's absorbing all the...

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To feel the world in a different place
Not far from home 
Yet worth the wait

What is this world with dogs
And many taste
And loads of race.


Once...

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There is anger that I hold
For those who hurt me and my own
Someday you all will see
A mothers wrath set free
Everyone who has caused us...

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Hush now the angel says
She is trying to show me her ways
she is coming to me here
In pure white she takes away your fear
no more...

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In a Van I Drew up to the Carol-singing Abby
Warren, I was to Finley realize my wish to Mary.
Denise met me with a Lacy family...

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