Best Courtesies Poems

It's that time of the year for the suit
Time to give those rolls the "boot"!
You can't cram it all in
Into material that thin
So get a...

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*Image of Real Pussy Willows & A Mockingbird by Cat Art & Florida News.



righteous courtesies 


looms pussy willows
eager mocking birds~~
sopranist voice ebbs


2021 December 28...

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It was a token gesture
A hand he offered me
Emerging from my cab
Stormy night in the city

I didn’t know his name
But I’ll not forget his face
For...

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One summer eve in Galilee
I stood before my open door;
to me it seemed just one more night--
like all the others gone before.
Someone would come and,...

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Beautiful Ones

Aloft in the steam, they look like Eagles.
Perched now on the edge of the bowl,
proud courtesies peck the kind and meek
with true meanings and...

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Broken-Hearted Woman’s Song

This is a broken-hearted woman’s song
with lyrics that would make the angels weep
of loneliness in life that lasted much too long
a disappointing, sorrow...

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If I was to take a word, say focus,
Stand it on its head,
And ask with growing sense of dread,
Why my friend did you just now,
Fly...

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Grand Ma


Depending on a day’s mood-
Grand Ma my mind recalls;
Saint or Devil in the wood
For fast writ on the walls!!!

Ah! Lovely Devil was she
She’d catch...

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III

Kept out
   kept out he was: muzzled and shut out
from mothering social approval
    and the usual conning courtesies

Kept shut
 ...

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22 Years And Counting        ( Recovery From Life)


The separation of love from soul 
a dreadful death itself.
Stripped of...

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*Image of The Spiritual Gift by Pixabay.

Gift Of A Lifetime

Fortuitous rise o'er Heaven's Gate, Grace courtesies with thy breath,
Gift of life crafts thy mercy being...

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smiling; hello 

It's been a long day, tired off all the repetitive noise:

Move slow
Times fast
Why won't
You go
I'm important
Are you important
To me

Extracted

Hello; Smiling

Digging into a word;...

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More silences than soft embraces, 
now we're lost with little left to say;
what used to be the flame of love
has gone to ashes, pale and...

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Marauding herdsmen, simple
 in disposition,
 but yet
 sophisticatedly armed
 straddling an AK47 as 
 the rod of a stockman.

The simple farmers, genial
 in disposition garnished
...

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All hail thy – sweet – small – courtesies of life.
For smooth do they make the road of it.
Grace and beauty – they cut so...

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