Best Cancelling Poems

a lonely place.
It's nothing to do with that person
who asked how are you? this morning.
It's to do with staring through
fear-frosted windows
as snow sugar-sifts the street,
watching...

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The message relayed by the computer generated
  voice said my que  in line  would be
 approximately 20 minutes.
 So I had twenty...

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Abominable holiday season greeting to the have-nots me and you
Bombshell tabloid sleigh bells got those ear holes ringing
Cut the tax gift wrap ribbon, only good...

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Joy and pain…
Sun and rain…
Love and disdain-
Opposites existing simultaneously
To its own detriment.
One cancelling out the other…
Parasitic and unevenly yoked.

Through thick cumulative clouds
I was the sun…
The...

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Covid 19 
Covid 19
Pandemonium erupts
Toilet paper is king
Churches are cancelling
The choirs cannot sing

Covid 19
Covid 19
The last known hand sanitizer
Has been stolen out of the hands...

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THE LONGING

To be innocent is to be entirely unknown, even to oneself.

- Djuna Barnes



I am free at last to be silent, to lap
In the quiet...

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From the moment I was born I wept. I cried out of wanting, After all to want is the first natural humane instinct. As I...

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(Dedicated to my wife and children. My sincere apologies for my failures and short-comings)

As the closing of the day is nearing
I ponder the things I...

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A love as pure as light, a knife that cuts through any barrier. As sweet as candy floss, light and delicate they might say. A...

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Clouds can be remarkably similar
to the friends lovers and passer-bys
that filter through our daily lives
like unexpected weekend guests
who arrive exactly as they planned
or close relatives...

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If this love takes me to the sunset
I hope you’ll walk along with me ‘til there
To have you closer until the twilight
For your love shall...

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You plan a trip a year ahead,
The tour group tried and trusted;
Then suddenly you get a call
Which leaves you quite disgusted.

"We're sorry but we're cancelling.
Too...

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A car ride to me is pulling out from my previous location and driving to an unknown destination 
Leaving wherever I'm going completely up to...

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I was chatting with a friend the other day when I suddenly realized I’d missed a good chunk of the conversation. My brain jumped off...

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In the middle of Fall while the leaves are still changing,
A winter storm makes a surprise appearance,
leaving reminders of winter everywhere,
The snow covered grounds and...

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