Best Case Poems

A double sonnet in which the great detective and his faithful sidekick, Dr. Watson, alternately deduce the cause of Sherlock’s latest malady…

Part the first
Sherlock could not deduce his source of pain
at first. “Try as I might, I cannot find
the cause – is it contusion, or...

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"The Strange Case of F.T."



They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace 
confessional shared amongst 
my equal peers, or so I deem 
you somewhat sometimes seem,
less than me, you ardent followers
scholars, world leaders, 
all manner of dignitaries and 
my...

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My eyes have not grown too weak or dim
to ignore what they've long been seeing
pretenders who wear a mask of disguise
like a skier who's not proficient at skiing

Everyone who labels him/herself a 'poet'
thinks he's composed brilliant words, versed
but lacks ability, and some of us know...

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'Twas the Perpetually-Missing Soup Poets case,
With Homes and Whatsup hot on the chase. 

Poets leaving was not breaking news,
So they slowly perused the usual clues.

Dr. Whatsup said, "Why do they go?"
Homes replied, "You mean you don't you know?"

"Though they tend to blame some bully's voice,
Poets...

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Rex wondered if it really was true, 
and developed a case of the blues: 
  He heard he was out
  He was ready to pout--
When he brightened: "It must be fake news!"...

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Written by Gail DeBole
on March 13, 2020
Fictional poem

The First Real Case of the Coronavirus 
(or The Coronavirus Stew Recipe)

Nobody knows that this is really the way
The Coronavirus came here to stay.

A witch who was looking for a new supper brew
Concocted a recipe of a tasty...

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Cry not for love
    Fore love 
Is the greatest  
Of all things’  
Be not of despair  
For the Heart withers’  
     Not ...
Less it be incomplete  
With all the completeness  
Of an...

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In case you were wondering... 
I'm not okay...But I say I am. 
You just don't know it. 
And you sure can't see it. 
Cause on the outside, I'm fine. 
But on the inside...I'm bleeding. 
I fake a smile, I fake a laugh. 
Just so you...

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The world's changing so fast
forever dreams no longer tend to last.
Time swiftly slips away,
it seemed, but yesterday
life was all about play,
and yet, those moments all lie in the past.

My hair is mostly gone,
old age advances with each breaking dawn.
I can no longer run
and have no...

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Contemplate just in case I meet my one true love
Just to see him actually the man that I dream of.
Silky soft material upon myself was draped
Underneath a magic moon with a sky star-scaped.

A fresh gentle breeze with every step I’m taking
The closer I now become...

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The spiral staircase made her high heels sing
as quickly she descended to ground floor.
She’d pulled it off! Her briefcase held the proof.
How proud of her would be her paramour!

How carefully they’d planned the pefect heist.
He’d groomed her well in all she had to do.
She’d faked...

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A waste paper basket, a trash can, a bin
Whatever you call it, some things won’t stay in
The things that you write
Long into the night
May make, when discarded… one hell of a din

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Don’t write by moonlight at midnight
Do not trash your tale late at night
For powers...

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A case of the blahs
   evening blues
dark too early
   nothing to do

8:00 p.m., Monday
   Why go out
Bars are dead
   Drunks passed out

Clubs are closed
   Who would come
Weekend burnout
   Twiddle-dee-dum

Turn in early
  ...

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Light will eventually find its way
through the dark. No one lives in it 
forever, so never give in to suicide
Just wait until the light comes out
It will find you in the dark

You are loved more than you'll ever know
And you are special, even though 
you...

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Muddy Water's Gramma gave us licorice

I walked the old Kenwood neighborhood with my twin little brother and sister in tow,
'hold there hands and look both ways before you cross the street'
No use trying to talk my way out, knew it was the only way mom...

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