Best Collectors Poems

"The Collectors" 

a kiss 
spreads its alms
warmth on cold lips

Love comes to collect 

the eyes tell a story 
the messengers
opened

an untold mystery
passing 
the plate

the collection

the black swan awaits
veiled proverbs watching 
3 fates 

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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mlb, klb, llb
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Still not done with our kingdom
Ours is peopled by the low, the high
With abundant wealth that surround us
We still munch the stench of poverty
Like we swallow our daily ”Garri” 
Though still in our Master’s Garrison.

Taken aback became my ordeal
When I saw the boys in the...

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Bill collecting creditors
can be just like predators....

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We are all collectors;
storing images and sounds
as museums their acquisitions,
and conductors, their array
of scintillating voices….

Some we obtain for profit
and some to simply enjoy--
a lovely face with charming
grace--a lyrical smile
with eyes that beguile--
the roaring wind
stripping trees and 
flattening fields—amazing
how many worlds a heart can
hold--or vanquish in...

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Patience meets a quietude of Rosewood,
a quill twixt fingers, held in the left hand.
The trophy collector shares his boyhood,
as a quill fairs right assign no men's land.

A quill twixt fingers, held in the left hand.
A hallway clock grows in the midday sun,
as a quill fairs...

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collectors 
dropping footprints 
in idle sand, eyes wide 
fingers hanging empty 

delicate shells, bits of 
sea-glass, heart-shaped 
rocks, the foundation of 
'I love you.' 

an intake of breath, crouching 
toes buried digging through 
dirt and then 
scrubbing the prize 
clean, nestling it with a smile...

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~Comment Collectors~


Just forge ahead when things are
so dark!
Number of comments, do not a good poet 
make into a lyrical lark.


Many comment just to be top on the Community 
Board for heavens sake.
Thinking applause from big numbers must make 
me important, big time! What a fake!


Read the comments,...

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Wife, children, lovers,
debt collectors they are.

They collect without receipts,
spend without budgeting....

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The cares of the world, are weighing me down.
To the point, that I wanted my thoughts; to drown.

Bills owed,  finding their way to the mail box.
I want to pay them, but; I have too many roadblocks.

Collectors harassing  day in and day out on...

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At times we seem together as one 
Yet divided, by a separate peace 
A fresh piece of carne at a leopards feast 
You love your mother, yet you hate your niece 
The difference of what we do in life 
The suspense your neighbors summon 
As...

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Military gear ~
Table to table veterans
Search out memories.


For James H. Beachboard
1928-2011
USMC 1947-1951
One of the Chosin Few 
Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, 1950
britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Chosin-Reservoir...

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People who collect marbles also 
collect like terms. These people 
may collect unemployment in 
Florida as well. 
Trailing starboard they collect flotsam
stored in their pockets, as they 
converse and philosophize with 
living plastic flamingos. 

People who collect English dining 
ware also collect dust. Their collective
unconscious...

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