Best Down The Middle Poems

...AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

My childhood spent without peers
alone and prey to my fears.

Nights spent face buried in my pillow
my emotions  like a weeping willow.

The school kid disliked and a......

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...Standing looking across sweeping thoughts and hopes 
alone crying into distant faraway hills and valleys  
dreaming I saw before me a big white puff of smoke 

Drifting low circling from out of c......

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...What do you do with a fried lemon sandwich
when lavender leaves have messed up its hair
How to you cut it in two equal pieces
while no one is home and you don’t like to share
Why is it si......

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...Please, Please, Please proceed to exit left stage,
Or at least make this battle worth my time.
Every word, forming every rhyme,
Tells me that your "thoughts" belong in a cage.
Draw a line down th......

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...As a child
I sat beneath my grandmother’s table
And listened to the stories and whispers
Of all who gathered 'round

If mom was in a really good mood
A cover could go over and make it into
The......

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...O Most beautiful of places
like a whisper
read me ...if you read me...in hushed tones
"Lace and fineness" 
not for me
Sweet salty sea and a sand colored shore
the lines are long ...slender ... ......

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...here is the house we grow up in;
down the road, there is the house we grow old in. 

somewhere down the road, split right down the middle, is everything in between. 

in this thousand acre town,......

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...What is the point? Asked Mrs. Snooty.
The point is I could not make up my mind when we
were building, so I said put all three in.

We are not talking light switches.
We are talking light fixture......

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...Looking back,
Some weeds down the middle of the road
Footprints to one side or the other, few sideroads
I’ve Traveled far with little or no direction, yet always 
Managed to lean toward logical w......

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...I knew a girl who lost all she had
Leaving her lonely, lost, and terribly sad
Having no one to talk to and no one to call
She fell in love with the blade releasing it all

She found peace in the......

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...Film Noir

By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckone......

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...You are the batter,
Shaking in your cleats,
Scared of what may come,
So scared you may flee.

The pitcher stands there noble,
Strong and steady,
His pitch is fast,
And you are not so ready.
......

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...What a wonderful day to give my Yorkie a bath

Peanut, my four year old boy Yorkie,  
sixteen pounds of love and affection, 
a coat of blue silver and tan long straight hair 
that pa......

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...Thumb screws its way walking a straight line down the middle of the road hitching a ride on a new page no road kill here life’s a breeze surfing open minds along the torturous wake with all the sweet......

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...When someone steals from a store, and strong arms the owner…
When he walks down the middle of the street, daring others to stop him.
When he wants to stop traffic by blocking the streets… he is a f......

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