Best Chairs Poems

I came upon two empty chairs atop a hillside green
                They beckoned me to pause and think upon this verdant scene
Their canvas stripes of blue and white adorned a wooden...

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I found myself sitting in a circle of chairs,
With people about me, some saying their prayers.
For family and friends who’d completed life’s stay,
To continue the journey, on their spiritual way.

The people around me weren’t gloomy or grim.
As they talked of their loved ones, they all...

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There is only one thing that you can control in this world
As It's to whom that we sing that our soul will be unfurled
You are completely powerless over all that you do control
But it will really become a mess the day you lose your soul

Just...

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A deluded and deranged miscreant.
Rode in a rented Ryder truck,
Sadistically opposed to his government,
He delivered a two-ton bomb.

After parking the fateful vehicle,
With time fleeting and fuses lit,
He fled to his car,
Parked, not far away.

Hearing the explosion, he made his escape,
With a gleam in his eye.
One...

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There is a sadness that can not be spoken of.
And there is a pain that goes on and on.
There are empty chairs at empty tables,
For my friends are dead and gone.

It was here they talked of a revolution,
It was here that they lit the flame.
It...

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HE BANNED CHAIRS

Looks like we will sit on the floor.
There is a new leader		      with a big boat to flaunt.
When we move outside there are crosses along the road. 

Scare tactic.
	He’s loaded with guns and an atomic twister.
Everyone will be...

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Round and round and round we all go
Musical notes defining destiny
Who shall we love?
Who lives and who shall die

Whimsical chords linger softly
As we sing our way along in life
The notes of the universe sing true
The music lives through out all time

Tears fall from my face
Onto...

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A snail crosses
along a razor's edge,
from it's past, complete.
To it's futures, separate.
And just before it's twin selves
slide down the opposite sides
of a steely wall
it's last thought 
captures the totality
of it's trek.
The atom in the
quantum corral,
a mirage of the discrete,
or a sum total of all?
Deck chairs...

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When Grandfather passed,
his place at the table was still set.
At first our family was aghast,
but a widow’s devotional duty had been met
and for us, that was as good as it could get.

Then it was Mom who left us in her youth -
another empty chair.
To tell...

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Your face contorts in a twisted effort
Plaintive in non-decorous reverberation
A terrain around a pair of distant orbs 
Lost in extemporaneous consternation
To ward off the fear of unwanted evanescence
Upon the wanton revelation
Of a day you wish had never existed
Tremors beset a set of fingers 
While the...

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On the back deck,
snow has turned two empty chairs,
sitting beside the shrouded grill,
into phantoms with open arms
waiting for corn to roast,
peppers to lose their crisp edges,
onions to gather sweetness,
and shrimp to hold their fibrous flavor
for the taster's tongue.

Birds by the score, alerted 
by the snowy...

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place two chairs in a room
with three people moving around them

and at some point playing music 
stop the music

and one person will be 
left without a chair

looking for a way to get a chair
or will just disappear

you set the stage 
you caused the outcome

one nothing...

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lounge
       two chairs
       side by side
       both are are empty
        waiting...

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Oh, most precious were the hours we shared. But
they are now gone, and I can no longer benefit from
their experience, but in the eyes of my heart and
mind, they still sit so stately at my window. It was as
if they waited for me each morning,...

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A back-room dweller,
nervous hands in his pockets,
seeks his acceptance....

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