Best Barely Poems

And I Barely Heard the Finch

How sweet your timid twitter,
Like a child pulling on its Mother’s dress,
And like the child, “Do you want to talk to me,
Do your little chirps mean more than seed?”

Free you fly through the dawning skies,
Problems far from your waking eyes;
Immigration,...

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We carry our phones now.
We call them I-phones.
Not sure if this is because we are Internet-aware
Or simply I’s instead of We’s now.
It’s time to exchange mine for a newer model;
Happens every two years.
How many contacts do you have? They ask me as
The upload of phone...

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Villanelle : Nations barely survive the turbulence of international events

Nations barely survive the turbulence of international events
Yet end up like interpersonal relations with other nations
Nations rise and fall yet some hardly ever merit compliments

What great Luxuor grandeur falls now to Egyptian peasants
The glory of five...

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Never expected to find you
So much I wanted to tell you
Actually boils down to a warm thank you
Your glowing smile I can still picture
Still remember your laughter
You seemed much older and wiser
In your eyes that deep piercing look
Revealed the wisdom of an old soul’s book
Maybe...

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Gabriel -  my autistic nephew 
speaks few word but has a loving face
He has a place in my heart
I try to talk with hm
Even taught him a few songs
A couple of tiby the Lemon Pipers
and one by Nat King Cole 
Let poetry and music...

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grip tighter on my hand, please don't let me go, I can barely stand,
 My legs wobble, My knees give way, but please say you'll stay, 
explain to me why you must leave, because I'm really finding it hard to breath,
 hold my hand and...

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Although she longed, prayed and hoped he wasn’t away

she still couldn’t stand the thought of him being no more

only having known each other for a few weeks

when love at first sight kicked in

they walked together holding hands like inseparable love birds,

talked about anything from life,...

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Fantasy and dreams fade 
As does the magic of ones youth 
As we struggle the hardships of life 
Hope seems to dangle over the edge of a bluff 
We pray for the passing days to bring love, prosperity, and health into our lives 
So few...

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I have value memories of you when I was a KID.
The older I got, the less I remembered you still LIVED.

You had a name, but you never had a FACE.
In my mind you had a life, but you never had a PLACE.

I grew up thinking...

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It's lonely out here
I wish I could sleep

I often think there's no one else I can talk to
I appreciate that
I can say anything to you

I used to care about the format of writing
I thought it was just needful
To write with pen and paper
Like how the...

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They had been having problems for quite some time
but the outside world never seemed to notice,
Their once everlasting love had crossed a dangerous line
yet the outside world never seemed to notice.
They would get involved in heated arguements behind closed doors
they would put one another down...

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In my most endearing reveries, I journey once more
where monoliths of stone rose from the rocky shore
reminiscing the joyful days we spent along the quay
as sunrise painted pastel hues over waves in the bay

We gazed at the blush on the horizon, both enchanted
It was though...

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Warning: Barely Closeted Monsters Lurk Here!

Religious freedom’s what’s at stake! True monsters wage this war!
God’s told THEM (1) just when life begins (so faith that differs SIN)!
My Bible does not say, does yours? Raise hands if you’ve heard Voice.
But God, Herself, proves Thumpers (2) liars...

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Barely Getting By

Lately we barely seem to be getting by
And my lovely wife keeps asking me why
Pennies saved were earned here and there
But bills are sky high piled up everywhere.

For us to keep spending am apprehensive
Because everything has become so expensive
Should I look away and...

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We are identical twins
believing in none of the same things
as alike as a tennis shoe is to a tyrannosaurus rex’s jawbone

We used to play and laugh
We had a silent laugh that creeped out the rest of the family
It could last for a month or two...

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