Best Behoove Poems

He misconstrued my intention of friendship
Forver sealing our fate to be acquaintances
Married to others with a nagging sense of loss
Keeping our mates at bay away...

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Oh Goddess Moon, you induce painters to paint,
the crazed to rave and poets to praise your grace.
How many love affairs have you helped to consummate?
With...

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Oh how you play me
Sway me
Love to slay me
You game of prey me

Oh how you entice me
Spice me
Naughty and nice me
Heart on ice me

Oh how...

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Written: September 12, 2023
Ocean Poetry Contest                   ...

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Peach and mango, nature's sweet embrace, 
In taste, they share a harmonious space, 
Juicy, succulent, with flavors that chase, 
A fruity symphony, a delightful grace.

In...

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In Praise of Polygamy

By Elton Camp

It’s not in the basic nature of a male
To limit himself to only one female

If, to be friendly, she doesn’t...

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George Washington Cole

1827 – 1911


So here I sleep.
Buried in this dirt.
Covered in this earth.
Returning to the dust.
Finding heaven in the whispers of the wind.
And as...

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Each of us has one;
each alone may see it,
and none is ever touched these days.
Its content, though, is real enough.
There little blocks of memory
are carelessly...

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A Rare Rhinoceros
 
Nothing seems so rare as a robust rhinoceros
Trying to point long nose into business like us
And incredible case in point never could...

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Wise no adulation, dedication and gratification 
   not emphasized the other three hundred and sixty four days a year
question their role as consumed...

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Countless generations lapsed since height of Greco-Roman mythology conceived, birthed and populated vast canopy of sky and expanse of terrestrial firmament, whereat obeisant propinquity quintessentially...

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Yes, the rhino is leather that rumbles
and deadly to a hunter who fumbles,
Now secure in the zoo,
Still, it might behoove you
not to show your backside...

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A Large House at a Bargain Price

By Elton Camp

It’s off from the busy highway
Making it a quiet place to stay

With two stories and a basement
It’s...

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{For Nelson and Winnie Mandela}
 You, me said I to my honey bitter
 When like the windy aether,
 Blows us hither and thither
 Bursting bubbles...

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Falling; without such realization or consent 
Smitten; enamored of an idea of Love 
Sans control and choice, I serenely relent;
To this momentum of a powering...

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