Best Commonality Poems

As Easter approaches, a treasured memory surfaces.
While the commuter trains rolled by a few blocks away;
While the stadium of the Chicago Cubs prepped for baseball;
A most holy event was taking place that has followed me a life time.

It was not a routine ritual, and
I don't...

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My Grandpa was an impatient man.
One time when the boys didn’t bring the truck home in time
And he had to move hay,
Grandpa took a chain saw and massacred the top
Off his spanking brand new Cadillac,
So he could use it as a hay-moving almost truck.
The boys...

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Common Mistake … Common Courtesy
Common Sense … Commonality
Common Grave – Dug … or Common Ground – Hug
Uncommon Valor takes Uncommon Power
So.. Com’ On Love … Com’ On...

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we have so much in common,
from the air we breathe,
to the food we eat,
we have so much in common,
when we stand too long,
we must take a seat,
we have so much in common,
when we hunger,
we can consume all the food on the plate,
we have so much...

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Common Place and Common Time
What we are is concubines

A lesser and part of now
A lesser and part of here
Dictated by the Sun
Dictated it's quite clear

Kept alive by its warmth
Kept alive by its grace
We act as if we do
When we act by laws ordained 

You are...

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If we all want what we can't have,
How is it that
There's any happiness
Anywhere?
How can you just stop
Looking for that thing you never found?
Or does it really end?
Do they play pretend?
Is everybody secret-searching
Hoping they can stop the hurting
Now
Somehow?
I love to see all those blank faces
Passing me...

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Carefully we planned for the big day 
Oblique qualms and doubts drove me away
Moody and thoughtless insensitivity
Maudlin thoughts curbed the festivity
Onerous thoughts like small transmitters
Now revealed my flutters and flitters
Ashamed, you admitted you had the jitters
Laughingly we both had learned
Intimacy shared is intimacy earned
Treasuring our...

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not everything 
in this life 
can be tied 
into a 
neat little 
ribbon of 
commonality 
there are many 
levels of gray 
within this journey
called life...

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be-ing...........some-thing beau-ti-ful
                                           ...

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Ever since the days when the world was still young, 
The same stories were told, the same songs were sung.  
Through the constant tide of birth, marriage, and death, 
We each seek our place, ‘til our very last breath.
We cry the same tears, for...

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