Best Close To The Vest Poems

Been traveling through this old world, 
And I've picked up my pass, 
To the oldest game on earth, 
Where my luck won't run dry. 
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There are a few gentlemen I admire
Whose lovely poems set my heart afire
Though we live far apart
They all captured my heart
Their romantic verses make me...

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Waterloo Clerihew 23-Skidoo

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 Corsica is where he got his start
One of the greatest commanders in history
His manner of death a 200-year-old mystery

Napoleon played it...

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I pretend I'm alright
And put my best stance forward
Wear my brave face
Tryin to be smooth
Just tripped on my shoelace
What's a girl to do

Busted, razed, flat...

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I have opinionated friends.
Bonita will not wear a mask unless it is Halloween.
It violates her constitutional rights.
What about other people’s rights? I ask her.
She scoffs.

I...

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Everybody got a Hollywood life story
to tell
More meat on the bone
give juicier bites 
to sell
Nobody ever turns in a tarnished silver screenplay
Those warts and mistakes
get...

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The first words openly spoken
Mama,is the soup hot yet ?
said as I
Sat on her hip

Mrs.Cotten
The visiting nurse
No longer
Could she quip

She'll talk when
She has something to...

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The Purity Wheat Domain

There on the sandy ground a mountain grew
Near the motionless skeleton deserts shore 
An empty basin’s brain of dirt and grains
Exploded out...

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Roots of a choirboy
and the mystery of his love for music,
in the life of being...
the fair one!

Does anyone have a clue...
what the fair one goes...

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'Mosquito Pete' (or 'Skeet') for short
A seasoned guy, the strangest sort
It was the only name we ever knew
His story known by very few

A weathered old...

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I'm in love you so deeply that words could never quite entirely express
You can sense it from the pit of my soul
On through this heart...

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I oft find myself reliving my youth
    uncovering uncomfortable truths
  about all of my foibles and most of my sins
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March days in Ohio
sometimes a lion, sometimes a lamb
They often trade places, whenever they can.
Today: Hi 50's-open blue sky with napping winds.
the Sun makes all...

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Criticism can cut close to the bone, 
An area where sensitivity hides; 
Make it rather close to the vest, 
so squabble won't start from both...

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Hesitation persists
Glazed over hurts, trying to push on
Turn a new page
Eyes open to possibilities uncharted
Waters unsure
But one thing remains
LOVE!
Let it shine through
Radiating in all directions...

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