Best Draft Poems

Upon her last sighs, she narrates cosmic 
sagas flowing within poetic veins.
She still remembers 
those idyllic evenings, 
engrossed in raining confessions, 
influenced by her shipwrecked heart, 
expressing scarlet 
sentiments that sail in silence,
across unruffled ink-stained waves,
amidst the endless oceans between 
their untouched silhouettes.

Her every desire...

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This you see is a draft
Minds little notes of lines and verse
In dribs and drabs
In prose, I stab and stab

Repeating oft said words
Expressions rehashed to be reheard
Yearning only for that one to see
This my attempt at being me

The ebb and flow of a sadness boat
Feeble...

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At first you're in a cloud. But you're not high.
The pills have sucked your dopamine dry.

Most times, you just don't want to try.
Honestly,  most times you want to die.

Cast out from society 
Split from their reality. 

To you, the so called crazy one.
You see...

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Diversified, she sat upon the page
a tiny dot of incoherence brushed into the ink
She wondered how she got so small
and stretched to reach an "A", 
the brink
which started the sentence of her life,
a thousand words to hide away.
While she studied the paper rift
she noticed the...

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when a god closes a door
   reason flies out the window


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I wandered and pondered my bleak isolation
As I slowly perused this wide open space
That one cloud above me seemed, like me, quite lonely
Its passage was slow as it matched my own pace
And then I saw poppies so tall, red and bold
I wished they were daffies...

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A rough idea 
invades brain waves.
Words flow. A pen glides, 
line after line across the page.

Anticipation, hope rings. 
It grows, lives, sings.

Evaluate, punctuate
strike out, insert
distill, re-frame
copy, finis.

read aloud . . . scrap....

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It snowed the day my mother taught me to engrave
 
She held a waxy green leaf between her mittened fingers
 
And mapped each yellow vein with her eager eyes
 
All filled up to the lashes with yellow


Scraping away the green, catching it under her fingernails
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embellishing draft--
a stirring purple brushwood 
old chestnut falls back

10.31.16...

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Love like you've never loved before
Reaching your hand out to a closed door
Thinking I knew what was in store
Now I'm suffering, my heart bleeding on the floor

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In the club dancing, alone on the wall
posted up chillin' , drunk, trying not to fall
Not a care at...

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We are not in the same
Both of us so good at the game
I told you from the get go
Now you don't wanna let go
You didn't take the clue
Infatuated with something new
All the cards said it was wrong
We didn't listen we still went along
Love doesn't have...

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Tears of the Heavens enveloping the lands;
Rain is God's gift like the air and the wind.
Precious life's blood in the dry desert sands;
A mystery unleased like the yang and the yin....

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Oh, there once was a fellow could craft
Limericks at which most people laughed
But there was a rumor
They lacked some in humor
Till he finished that fourth or fifth draft
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Stolen play and poetry
A swollen face, abused and beat
No food to eat. No table neat
No place to be. No one to meet

No place of love nor friend to see
A child lost in poverty. 
The ills of a world seen verily 
No smiles now held merely...

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Hot, humid, hazy
Weather's driving me crazy
Making me lazy

Need a draft of cool
To rejuvenate this fool
Roll out the barrel

No draft of cool air
Roll out the barrel of beer
Draft of ale my dears!

So my health won't fail
Lift up your glasses my friends
Toast each other, cheers!...

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