Best Bump On A Log Poems

I was searching my mind for a theme to choose
for my very first poem of the year
turns out it was an easy choice
to thank some...

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I’m somebody!  Who are you?
Are you somebody too?
Then there’s a pair of us – do tell!
We must advertise – you know!

How dreary to be...

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Gypsy winds, wind their way
across deserts and plains;
whip the tumbleweeds and 
sands into a frenzy.

Nomad scorpions roam dunes alone,
burrowing deep, to escape 
a tempestuous sirocco.

In...

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Do you remember before computers
We actually spoke with each other
We cared whenever our kids got sick
And knew the address of our mother

Today we sit at...

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I was hoping for just a caress or maybe a stroke  
but all I got was noises, smoke, and restless rebuff 
I was wishing...

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Oh Happy Day, when you were born.
For many years, my heart did mourn.
Childless I lived amid the throng.
Watching mothers rush children along.
Alone in a restaurant,...

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I’m somebody!  Who are you?
Are you somebody too?
Then there’s a pair of us – do tell!
We must advertise – you know!

How dreary to be...

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When I was eight years old, Nancy a stringy-haired blond, chose me to be her playmate.  She idolized horses and always played "horsey" with...

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Fish swim closer,
To the lily girl,
Who dances on her flower,
They watch her twirl,
She touches the water,
With her toes,
Where the ripples go,
Nobody knows,
Music in air,
She fights...

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I want to go to college.
I want to go this fall.
I want to have the knowledge
to not go with my back up against the wall.

I...

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A Sloth's Life

I'm your lil sloth hanging on a prayer
The bump on the log without any flair
Hail Mary full of grace
Leave me from this rat...

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Wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path...

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Those who love life, put up your hands
Now let me see, hey you in the back
Don't just sit there like a bump on a log
You're...

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originally my intent to expound on memories 
   when paternal grandfather erode
out to said residence, and averse to expand horizons 
  ...

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Do you remember before computers
We actually spoke with each other
We cared whenever our kids got sick
And knew the address of our mother

Today we sit at...

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