Best Chaffs Poems

SPRING OF SUBSTANCE


Adorable word  drawing a rainbow of substance-- SPRING
Benumb snow-white cloak that drapes the earth,
charmed by strips of  golden spotlight above blue...

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I Never See the Wind
Written: By Tom Wright
2/17/2007

The wind slips through my life unseen
Often painting vivid pictures.
It moves things, often from one place to another.
It...

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So the October sky let loose its stores
in drip and drop as nature restores
the wilted and silted back to life.

A rainbow here, a rainbow there.
All...

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They came in their white robes
leaning on ornate wooden staffs.
Witches too, carrying crystal globes
and the wizard loudly them chaffs.

The moon shines fat and full
casting silvery...

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Always tried to do my best
still not much earth-blest
Of five children one 

alone makes me grand
too foolish in the flower
God chaffs the plan in

love's forgotten-hour
light...

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I awoke
Alone 
In a crowded field
Budding potential
Growing amidst
Disillusionment.
Tossed into the air
Stung by the edges
Of chaffs collusion
Separated
From all connection
To whatever was
Set adrift
On what is

©5/3/2023...

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Women frustrate me, like Frito bags
dipped in engine grease; quite unsolvable.
But I love them regardless, queens or hags;
life without them would be improbable,
with their constant...

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“… My precious child, I love you and would never leave you. During times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of...

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those little drips of word and water
that spill over but shouldn't oughter

gaffs and chaffs and blurbs that spot
sayer or sprayer marked insensitive clod

clothes spotted damp,...

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Hopelessness, like krait betwixt stones, creep into heart,
Confusion, like troubled stream, from heart, stands apart;
I am lonely and lost; float on flooding river,
Lifeless! Though reach...

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Both teams seem equal. Can we call this A and B?
Coin tossed; goal-post chose; both, lo, relax for a wee; 
The referee blows his whistle,...

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Going?               Luke. 14:25-27, 34.

Bear foot, I look to bloody prints. ...

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May blood vessels of affection amalgamate within!
And nucleus of compassion, like a fish and its bin…
Enabling ethical thoughts and words, and deeds coruscate,
Like sparks of...

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How times were different so long ago,
when pure survival dominated life.
No extra frills to fill long hours- bestow
enjoyment- mostly work to ease our strife.

We girls,...

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By Cherbo Geeplay

You woke me up when I was dead,
teaching the night stars wantonly 
to obey the Atlantic; then slashed
my arteries in flight to Lake...

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