Best Bernice Poems

Bernice May

1899-1918

Emma and me in 1916,

Spent many a summer Monday morning,

Over there, across Citrus Road,

In old decrepit Clark Cemetery,

Prancing and picnicking amidst 

The majestic stone...

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Write a limerick of your own about a Muppet. 
If you post it in a comment or in soup mail to me, 
and I find...

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When blossoms fall
From the tree of life
Their ash will feed its roots
And bloom away the strife 
These ambassadors of hearts and smiles 
And handshakes
These caretakers...

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An Inmates Letter of Exhaust From Addiction
~Ricky Nichole Flanigan

 An inmate’s life is built with love, but permanently judged by social population,
 The unjust society...

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In a land far away lived a fairy named Bernice
Not a typical name for a fairy, I do belieth
How about that Sir John John
I just...

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The old woman argued relentlessly, her case.
Resolute, she raved in her conviction; 
two thousand and one reasons were there for her to be mad.
Eleven was...

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december fly buzzing by
how on earth did you survive
frozen cold outside
snow drifts waist high
how are you alive
december fly

december fly buzzing by
my naps slumber you deny
bzzz...

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The Truth That Must Apply

I’m testing fate for now, resembling a vision,
A reality hit the present, world-wide division,
Rapist on the loose yet stoners on death...

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there's a bridge
built in spite of
doubt, fear, and, division, 
It was built with patience
 and a caring Love

The builder's mastered
time to serve each other
with a...

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When we plant a leaf,
we do not think where its life will come from.
We go counting and rejoicing our loves effort,
because at some point,
we think...

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I mustn’t shiver I mustn’t quake
Alas, of late
I have more than one candidate

My 1st favorite teacher is…
Mrs. Hammin my teacher with green hair
In the six...

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When it used to hurt
When it used to numb me and made me tear
Somehow I never thought the pain would end
It hurt so bad I...

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This is a poem that I am asking all who read it share today. This would have been Holly's birthday. There is no life that...

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A man with love… is a happy man to think of
But
A man with no woman to rely on
Is a man so lonely so dead and...

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I Still Wait

I wrote poems and sang songs to make the love I had more alive
Wrote endless passages tryina explain what my heart sang
I tried...

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