Best Disdained Poems

...Gary's Yard Sale, the story
                                                  Authored by Chuck Keys

Among the rustbelt cities of yesterday,
Along the edges of the Detroit River,
A short distan......

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...Night falls, and she stood up quickly,
Brushed up swiftly, arranged her
Hair briefly yet attracted, for her 
Beauty, and smooth face like the 
Surface of her chest... 
She walked to the door slo......

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...Loneliness and pain creates a void
 Dark shadows haunt, torment and torture
 only reflective thoughts of happiness
 
 Somber, melancholy moods decay the soul
 It is futile to hope and dream

 Emptine......

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...lonely shadows fly like phantoms
sodium arc lights sickly yellow
the pallor of puss; an old mans bellow
the young rages for parents they never had them
the quiet cold of ebony rain
sepia toned p......

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...To all women battered by brutal men
Cast not the blame at the foot of heaven
The dyed cloth by brutality stained
Shake that rag in demon's lurrid face
The summons writ for him disdained
By God a......

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...God, I am overwhelmed within me,
But you are merciful everlastingly
You release your sincere spirit of shameless serenity
And you wash me thoroughly with it wholeheartedly,
For I've been lost for......

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...RAINING MELODY OF MEMORY

You walked away through mist along garden trail, 
what stayed after nothing with me ever remained
was the amorous sea of your scent for me to sa......

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...THE RELUCTANT GUEST

Not proof against the pricks disdained
By the broad impact of petty phil-
Osophy, but sundered when our passions rained
Over our heads, when wish invaded will,

I am part ......

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...Like Ripened Fruit
                                   Authored by Chuck Keys

Where is my next stop?
I look but cannot find,
Forever seeking unfulfilled dreams, 
Of ... yesterday,
A falling tr......

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...Many can recall and recollect
the halcyon moments of carefree abandon 
When juvenile limbs climbed upon cedar limbs 
or squatted under oak or baobab shades
while languishing in youthful salad day......

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...He was careless in the race
Yet entered in by wondrous grace.
His works of earthly gain, no more remain.
The world’s pursuits there now disdained.
Forlorn of blessings lost to greed,
Mistaken go......

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...(continued from PART  ONE)


Why I’ve seen him countless times, regurgitate old dog faeces onto fresh bread  
And listened  to his quiet voice exhorting me to do the same. 
This fly was a born t......

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...I felt as though I have been stranded in America
for  more than a century
wearing the same old clothes on my  battered back 
wearing  threadbare shoes on my tired feet
singing the same old  miser......

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...In the land of Eden,
In the land of Nod.
I once was a man,
That had a plot.
The black eye derived from fratricide,
Reprised in time despite;
the denies of delight.
Fight or flight, Its just no......

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...“You play on my every weakness from my past, 
As a heart-wrenched spirit of truth caresses your comrades
They are perturbed as you are by the magnificent light,
To challenge your heart, is to rend......

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