Best Costed Poems

If you judge food with the quantity put before you
Then my first choice will be the Victoria Hotel*.
On Sunday lunch, food is too plentiful, makes you blue.
There we will eat so much it will make our tummies swell.

In my travels, I had times when food...

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My mind is always running like an overflowing faucet
Like a never ending bouncing ball that someone took and tossed it
Paid for with attention that I forgot how much it costed
As my mind will sometimes lose itself and I forget just where I lost it

A mind...

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I stood before the mirror, one last check,
a quick inspection, then head off to town,
silver kipper tie around the neck,
shirt of green, sports jacket of light brown.
Platform shoes on, I boogie down the street,
a first date to look forward to that night,
flared pants flapped in...

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From time to time I find myself staring into the heavens lit by our stars
The elders spoke of each star having its name, and how God knew the all by it
  At a very young age I grew much interest in adventure, to be...

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Through Jaded Eyes you see the world, 
and everything in view.
But see you weren’t like this 
when I finally had found you.

It sucked you in, this monster, 
and it caused the world to pause.
It took our lives away 
when it had trapped us in it’s...

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I raised an Australian dingo,
no name came to mind but Ringo;
he jumped on me,
ripped my clothes daily...
it costed me plenty of money!

Only once I left him alone;
good grief... my furniture was torn!
Oh, should I be mad...
or be kind instead?
I'll sleep over it for tonight!

All Ringo...

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LIBERATION
I am still in chains
Slavery, colonialize and apartheid 
Are words you do not want to associate yourself with..
I know you have been emotionally stimulated that you are free
Just illusions, you are still in handcuffs, shackles in your ankles
Meaning-mentally, emotionally and spiritually incapacitated
   You...

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Somewhere that you can be, 
but I can't be
Living with lies, but I know you 
still care
Same thing that you can do, but 
I can't do
The teardrop that I caught, but 
you didn't care.

From beneath the heart, your 
smiles behind the shoulder
Faces you put up...

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8/30/16


Plotted
Lines connected no longer dotted

I got it 
Took so much more than logic
And being honest
Hard work, pain, sweat, blood and tears is what it costed

From here to beyond the tropics
Near and far from ore deposits

When things rotted
A pungent odor usually wafted

Only so much time we...

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Reality strikes
Almost in a dreamlike state
Slow motion
However sudden
Indifferent to any other
Dreams turned to nightmare  
instantly 

I feel so worthless 
For some time now
A whore
A ****
Good for nothing
Ruined.
Not easy to acknowledge 
But this is how you made me feel.
Almost protected you
Nearly to the death
You left me...

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I dance with the Devil while the choir sing gospels.
The heavenly bliss of Hell holds me mentally hostage. 
I payed too much attention to the negative temptation. 
Never knew how much the price in Heaven costed. 
Due to my negligence towards my spirit and faith....

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Ramblin' Bob Dylan Blues
(For Bob Dylan)



Why does the sun dry up so many scattered tears

slipping down the coarse cheek of a million hushed fears

where no one is scalded though the searing fog clears

while prayers are mutely spoken even as the end nears

We shatter and scrape...

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Going around in shorts is considerable crime,
Oh now you can't even play with slime,
It's outrageous to talk about PeePee in public,
Do you remember now when country became republic? 

Swings and slides are day dreams of many,
Remember the the train rides that costed a penny?
Enjoy a...

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A piece of clay spinning around,
Molded by hands of fire and ice,
Shaped into form; tied and bound
By experiences through this vice.

Round and round upon a spin wheel,
Born into centre going fast and slow,
Pieces of clay falling; the bonemeal
picked up and hand built to grow. 

Every...

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Don't ask me how I got here
But I know it was a struggle 
You never knew you were pregnant with tomorrow
I ate what you ate
I drank what you drank 
I went everywhere you went 
When you was tired, I was too
When you were strong I...

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