Best Call Back Poems

Like a creature hibernating in its burrow
Waiting to come out with the first verdure of spring,
The seed of a poem lay dormant in my heart
Through...

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Being Your Eyes for Swell 2007
Swell: Currumbin Sculpture Festival
 
For Fred
Picture us arm in arm, strolling,
the crunch of sand underfoot,
the scent of sea air, the...

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How long did it take her to be free?

How long did it take
For the wingless dragonfly to finally open her heart to the world

How long...

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When he walked away 
He yearned for you to call him back 
Even though it would not be what it use to be
He hoped; he had that...

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All afternoon I waited in at my house for you
But you didn’t show up and the air turned blue!

Called the servicing and maintenance department ...

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please Lord, wait for me
i know i am not ready
for Your face i would like to see
i am in no way steady
as i need only...

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Once long ago, when kings and dragons ruled the Earth,
there came to be that a golden Fairy Queen
was pregnant and about to give birth to...

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War used to be some other place
Out of sight and mind;
But now we see on our tv
The worst of humankind.

An army has just marched across
Another...

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she wants to do
what she wants to do
even if she don't ask
she has dreams that is bigger than this town
i just need to relax
that car...

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Where were you?
When I called?
When I drove to your house?
When I emailed?
Where were you?
When I needed you the most?
You said you'll be there 
by my...

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Just enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad...

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Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or...

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I did as he said and got the word FAILED
I call back to the tech and naturally get another male
Again I try to tell this...

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I reckon time
By my children’s ages
My daughter is 30
My son is 25
No, this happened 
A long time ago
Before I met their mother
How many years was...

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I was running some errands and stopped into the little waterfront restaurant for a late lunch.  It was kind of that in-between lunch and...

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