Best Backs Poems

Work is unending, when we work to survive
The fruits of our labors, so others can thrive
Through toil and torment,  ever larger the stacks
Are the blocks of our burden, Held square on our backs

War is forever,  when no tears are shed
The leaders of men...

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A nesting is but invaded
All nestlings abandoned
But ‘four’ eggs shelled?

Mother bird is gone
Many a tuft of feathers
Drying in the winds!


Broken twigs have bent
The nest will sit misshapen
Under treed branches above!
 

Mother overhead flees
Skyward tweeting call-back cries
A hungry snake waits!...

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I had a dream where nothing 
was what it seemed.
It was dark and then too bright 
and all my words left my mind.
I saw a bright beam where 
everything was what I’d 
deemed.
The darkness fell over the 
shadows and swallowed 
everything that was kind.
The light...

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The NHS has plans to save money
Which ENT consultants won’t follow
They won’t hear of budget cuts
They think the plans quite shallow
Which have got up there noses
And they find them hard to swallow...

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Taking Coleridge at his word,
I hied me to a rural scene
To leave behind the madding herd
For where Titania reigns the queen.

Ah! ‘Tis hard to wax romantic,
Though bees hum and boughs do sway,
To close the mind to all the frantic
Things that jostle us each day.


No more...

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Blood from blue bullets sours the concrete
Black backs are refuge for lead seeking a place to rest
Justice was kidnapped by metal shields surrounded in blue
No one cares.  The value of those black backs are anyone’s guess

We protest with violence which leaves our voices silent
Images...

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H   is hero is soft-spoken
E   mbarassingly shy
R   eads poetry, that kind of guy
O   nly whenever a family member
I    s falsely accused of
S   omething like telling a lie
M   an the barricades...

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The NHS has plans to save money
And many are opposed to the suggestion
The Obstetricians feel that the government
Are labouring under a misconception...

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Throw a knife in my bare back,
And my little daughter too,
Betrayal and blasphemy,
Wound and spun by you....

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The NHS has plans to save money
And there has been opposition all right
But the Gastroenterologists
Don’t have the stomach for a fight...

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The NHS has plans to save money
As they are strapped for cash
The plans have got up the Allergists noses
And Dermatologists think them rash...

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If your turning backs were bricks to this craving soul
And your eyes not meeting my searching little windows
Then this bed is a twin to China’s great wall.
Enveloped with scorching breeze
colossal reaching, unheard touches.

Where have all the blazes gone
In every skin-to-skin
In every passionate skim.

Has the apathetic...

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I can finally believe that the sun shines beyond those clouds
To signal the end of the shade 
Uncovering the world’s insecurity’s

If we can find solace in somebody we’ve never touched
Their words enough to give us hope
In a hopeless race
The means to turn the page
And start...

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i’ve been building a 
library in the loft

where backs of the bound
gaze down 

upon me 
wondering

who will i
pursue 

and
fondle through 
next...

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McGirt and I are all-weather friends.
We can finish each other's thoughts.
We like to have sleep overs.
We include others.
We joke a lot.
Friends do that.
I smile.
Friend....

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