Best Back Away Poems

There’s the tightrope for you to walk, wire walker —

defying the gravity of reality and the reality of gravity
you know damn well he won't catch you when you fall
as your sticky grip on the star’s razor edge slips

back away from the black back-alley -
use the...

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What is this dance that we do?
First you spin me; I twirl with delight
Captivated by your attentive gaze
Then you back away as I move toward you

So many times we’ve been on this floor
One step forward, two steps back
Movements that confuse a foolish heart
Often I feel...

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Do come, my love, for I insist!
Within the darkest crevices of time, we fight, we cry, I die
As vision gives us knowledge, we descend farther into the grime
Curiouser and curiouser, we fall in dark crevices of time

Molded by imagination’s ink, the tentacles stretch outward
Singed from...

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We have great animals on this grand Earth
of varied size- they live on land or sea.
Domestic ones, we love for all their worth;
like, family we live in harmony.

But grandest in our mix of wild beasts here- 
our elephant, the largest one on land.
Though giant-sized, of...

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Friends humor and play me
(They know I'm chra-zee)
Patsy sings blue
God I miss you

So lone-lee now
Never knew how
without you to cope
Losing false hope
that keeps me stumbling
nowhere, I hear rumbling
and mumbling of wraiths
Fading blind faith...

Need your cozy croon
Your comforting tune
Your old fashioned song
Don't seem to belong
anywhere anymore
You...

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as i am dancing around my tiny bathroom, in my short shorts

i stop for just a fraction of a moment to look in the mirror
i see my reflection staring right back at me

i look closer...

i see how my eyes are as blue as the deep,...

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Daisy was such a bossy old cow,
one who desired to rule the herd.
Her opinions were so highbrow
the others dared not moo a word!
 
Daisy would moo and moo all day
whilst the others chewed their cud.
I dare not disclose the things she’d say
if amiable cows mated...

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I was singed from the fire to the point of burning
couldn't escape from the heat 'til I  reached my time of learning
that the way to stay safe was just to back away
now here at a distance is where I must stay
and while the others...

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We are each
a “Little Light Beloved”
so told to me in a dream~

each a blessed spark 
released – far greater
than any Devil would
have man consider, let alone~
righteously seem! 
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Insane

Defiantly I admonish you to just leave me alone,
Stop following me incessantly like a rowdy foe.
How forcefully must I tell, you've lost your soul,
Your sinister ways to love me I do not condone.

You shadow my presence everywhere I go
Blatantly invading every peaceful place I know.
Lurking...

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The most noble act in all the world, I think
To back away from war on the brink
Seeking peaceful concession
With reparation
Restoring
Peace
Endorsing
Calm separation
Mutual declaration
Leaves both nations prospering insync
The most noble act in all the world, I think  

Written March 28, 2022
[an Andaree, developed by Poet
Andrea Dietrich,...

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in awe of wonderment
suspended
where heart beats linger
it has been said
"the air tonight is so thick with angst"
but of what, will or will not
happen tommorow

fingers rapidly weave
as dark taps upon the window
you looking out, I looking in

there's beauty amid all the apprehension
wayward limbs grasping reality
stars stroking...

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I smile when i look at you
And hope you smile back
When i see you finally do
I wake up and find the real facts
You dont feel the same i do about you
And i dont think you will at all
But i relize this and back away
But i...

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I am sitting in hovel writing nothing 
For the hovel has taken every last drop of energy.
Hey, wait. Is that an ant?
An ant in the winter?
What is she doing?
I get out my magnifying glass of course. 
She is wearing a backpack full of something that...

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Daisy was a bossy cow
How she loved to rule the herd
The other cows detested her
Yet they dared not moo a word

Daisy would moo and moo all day
Whilst the other cows chewed the cud
She gave her loud opinions
Whilst the other cows landed the stud

One day Daisy...

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