Best But Poems

Who but God could paint the evening sky
And use a brush that is a fiery torch?
Tonight, the garish sunset makes me high
In awe, I stand and watch it from my porch

Who but God could make the insects sing?
Cicadas droning on with their night song
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I want you to know I am not forgotten and those that knew me, make me known in their hearts and minds.


 I believed in a cause to protect my fellow brothers and sisters, to risk my life
and to gladly serve. To protect this great...

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"Happiness and sorrow ebb and flow like waves upon a beach, 
and I am but a grain of sand."
                          ...

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The rain outside plays games with the webs that cloud my mind,
I think I hear a tune. A drum solo that heralds memories buried deep
and sealed in concrete. Even the locked safe with five feet deep of steel
can not resist the lightning strike of the...

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Great sun, your day is drawing to a marvelous close.
The horizon seems ablaze as you slowly spill into the turning of night.
Tomorrow we shall see your return,
as you stir sleepy eyes and herald the dawn.
Your arrival brings forth the songbird's call.
Though for now, your departure...

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Trills tumble through an air long silenced
warbled melodies enlighten the palate 
whistles delight but fly off to the thistle
freighted by the frigid speak  
amongst the downturn of the day
where blue skies lost their way

Memories of warm caresses
sing along in forgotten dreams
eclipsed heat of destiny
dealt...

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I am but a dreamer
and in my dreams I play
where I live so happily
writing them my way
inside my illusions
where I know I belong
whistling a joyful tune
as I go along

Like a little spirit
I venture on the breeze
skipping in the gentle wind
doing what I please
with the rising...

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you don’t know what you’re doing to me
how i feel when you come near me
happens to me
you don’t know what happens to me
right next to me
when you're standing right next to me

take me
all of me
you on me
taste me
 
i'm always me
when your with me

your scent...

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(Set to the music of 'Phantom of the Opera')

His masked face haunts me so 
in candlelight
This vision makes the glow... 
A mystic sight
And I am drawn to him 
In dreams, I find
So like a moth to fire is pulled by light, 
My eyes are blind.

Is...

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Because I do not know of my tomorrow 
Yesterday is gone I've forgotten it 
I but have today to know I exist
I resist letting my today be wasted on drama
I am out sipping on sunshine 
Gliding on life
Dancing in the rain while drinking rain drops
Have...

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Sometimes words just aren't enough 
to capture all of the magic that surrounds 
the spill of the rainbow after a good storm 
the twinkles that resound from a caring eye
the lick of the lips before that first kiss 

resplendent, sumptuous, beheld 
my mind wanders the...

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I once thought that my life was so good,
but I was wrong, I must have misunderstood.

It was a mirage, it was not really there.
I felt wiped clean, exposed, totally bare.

The love, that was professed to be there,
was gone, forever lost, found nowhere.

The person that I...

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    Your wings aren't broken,
just bruised and singed.  
From holding them too tightly 
against the burning breast of indifference.
Battling storm, surf, sweet siren songs
blood fish praying for your falter...
but you fought them off one by one.
    Atop the...

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The murmur of winds urges me
to ride past new moon’s seasons …
it’s not joy I shall feed on;  no, perhaps
a more raw wildfire: a glaze bursting in the dark
or morn of life as is; this craving to sow my girlish
harvest with a nectar of...

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I forgot about you,
but I don't remember when.

With all the thoughts inscribed to you, 
I once had to chase the pen.

My mind's now like an empty gas tank.
Oh, the roads we traveled... I can't get there.

The dedication page is blank,
because I can't remember what or...

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