Best Bare Bone Poems

Dogs pant in the sweltering, humid air
that morphs into dewdrops as the night cools.
And summer swimwear isn't seen anywhere,
now that the kids have returned to their schools,
abandoning their sandcastles and pools.

The leaves are slowly getting drained of green,
changing color as they prepare to die.
And cottage...

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when darkness falls
shadows serenade
upon moonlit walls
and my eyes close
as i bid farewell to day

sweet dreams
cannot come
when hand from grave
rocks you back
through life's storms

i was bound to the hand
that rocked the cradle
my ship in stormy seas

slapped on the face
yet not by waves
but tasted saltwater
just the same

chilled...

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Come join the unraveling circus
quite soon to be passing our way,
with the clowns in a clamor to twerk us -
line up as they lead us astray!

Arriving, the elephant trumpets
agendas of aberrant acts
while the donkeys drool, dunking their crumpets
and twirlers spin, twisting the facts.
 
The big...

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Straggy sad dog
left all alone,
head on her paws
sleeping on stone.

Skin and bare bone,
her life undone,
eyes dimly see,
rain is to come.

Death softly cries
"Oh little one,
come here to me,
I am the sun"

Her tail wags once
her heart's last leap,
This little puppy,
slips into sleep.

Wakes in your arms
holding her dear,
A...

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They Were
They were boys going over the top to die in their tens of thousands in the mud of the Somme.                        ...

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All Around South Had To Hike

All around South did have to hike,
And every single bit of it  did like,
To bare bone,
When alone,
Even riding trike when a little tyke.

Jim Horn

Crab with conch and zucchini and okra.
Sound familiar? Some guy said that
grits are not as good...

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Dissolved in salts, sprits and holy water
Stings my wide opened eyes to a deep red
The visible failures of a man of faith
Fear sealed lips purple blue
Because I believed that for my sin the son of God bled
And the road ahead will never dim
And when the...

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To land a mockingbird,
sent out an innocent cat;
one that wouldn’t eat a bird
if it was starving.
A mockingbird’s greatest fear,
hatchlings being eaten
by a feline foe.

I had a tabby who never bothered a bird;
he only dined from cans.
One day a mockingbird nest 
fell from a tree,
it’s eggs...

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I deleted the words before I could say them 
Ate the words before I spat them out
I buried them alive 
Like my heart
I left a tumor in me to encapsulate 
N one day it’ll kill me 
One day I’ll die
I’ll have left a legacy 
One...

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PUZZLES  OF LEAVES
The hillside canopies of seemingly cascading skeleton trees,
bare their boney branches that once clung to myriad puzzles of leaves.
Each shimmering fall leaf
 a vividly colored flame,
now a fallen burnt out brief
spent for its time of fame,
leaving their once possessive bare bone branches
to...

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The paths and patterns of flowers
are lost beneath the darkness of desperate rocks

By summers security
and winters threat
does the slavery of hands
make its peace

To be eagerly assaulted
by grit and bare bone supported
in famished mouths
the overwhelming reassurance of nothing

And thou hast forsaken creation
for the purchase of a...

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fluffy clouds swirl in the cold winter sky
yet there are sweet moments of dazzling blue
but, it is time for winter to say goodbye
as I wish for a delightful spring view
oh, I am a winter child in my soul
loving to walk in the white snow and...

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With bare, bone-dry bureaucratese,
       can camouflage their intentions;
with official cordialities,
       can disguise their inclinations;

can bury their predilections
       with layers of formalities;
can rein in strongest emotions
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And now they expect my tears!
And now they want to see me cry!

Now you’re gone, I can see what I wouldn’t dare see
I can be free from your chains and your song
Locked away every night in the dark, I dreamt of now what I see.

I...

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Twist the truth 
in what I say 
Tick ,tick it is a matter of time 
Hiding the truth 

With each movement tick ,tick 
Getting closer
to the final countdown 
Tick ,tick the pressure
 
It is building 
Getting closer
to the truth tick, tick 
Saved by the bell
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