Best Darned Poems

...Yesterday I was in a little funk
because I got peed on by a big skunk
             took a long shower
              about every hour
discarded new jeans cos they stunk

        Alexis Y.

I’m......

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...Oh, no, he best not patronize me on Valentines.
If I must dramatize appreciation, I shall agonize.

Each year, he thinks chocolates will rationalize
spending his time guarding the sofa so......

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...Slate gray streets made even darker by cutting raindrops
Umbrellas popping up everywhere, people seeking shelter

But I stayed put, wanting to get drained with the rain,
then I hear this tinkling voi......

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...Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind

(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)......

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...Got a party coming up
I need to learn some moves
so I listened to the all-time greats
for tips on how to groove.
These music legends from times past
should know the moves to use
but what they s......

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...Darkness you have a funny way of shading the light 
colour coding from such a pit spinning the web of deceit 
clouds within suffering victims cry to the heaven's 

Shame on such corrupt souls poi......

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...Oh By Gosh… and By Darn… It’s another political year.
Dragon wants in on it as a political candidate My Dear.
President Dragon is a lot… to sincerely be able to take in.
And he wants his own cabin......

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...I want to be a poet to write those words which rhyme
But it seems I'm having trouble with tempo, tense and time
How do the poets do it rhyme words so undisputed
They neatly find the perfect word a......

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...Like any family, mine’s the same, they leave Mama with the dirty Chores.
You’d think with Trolls, and Dragons, and such… There’d be magic galore!
But I concede defeat at Pooper Scooping Time, my sons......

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...We each and everyone have scar tissue 
laid deeply etched internal conflict hides dialogue

All battles are fought against love condemned un-fairly 
hate tortures all good reasoning over trowing ......

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...I don’t have asbestos fingers and my blisters come from the garden
Toiling the soil and growing fine ingredients for such gourmet cuisine
Like ‘throw it all in the one pan dishes’ and crystal ball ......

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...I took myself walking the other day,
not far from the city's decay

A small patch of solitude beckoned to me,
'til I came to take rest,by the old stump of a tree.

Sure I took myself walking an......

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...As
the sun
gently slid
down western hills,
a large mass of clouds
some grey, some white, some pink
lay spread across the blue sky.
The lazy wind darned their edges,
with its wanto......

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Written: December 09, 2023
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Honeyed gold pearled shades
brown ferns and aspens
into shadowed paths
lit embers and oaks
As darkn......

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...Daffodill sheer trumpets
Dearest friendships you gift
Doused miles of sweet scent                      
Dozens charm in bouquets    
Darned bright in raven hair
Deck gardens in yellow           ......

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