Best During Poems

You can't make someone love you all you can do 
is be someone who can be loved.The rest is up to them.

No matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.

It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

You...

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If you judge food with the quantity put before you
Then my first choice will be the Victoria Hotel*.
On Sunday lunch, food is too plentiful, makes you blue.
There we will eat so much it will make our tummies swell.

In my travels, I had times when food...

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No I'm not kidding , believe what I say.
Step behind the orange line and behind it you stay.
Yes, I'll scan your items from six feet away
but stay behind the orange line until its time to pay.

It's not rocket science, there's a pandemic, its real.
You may...

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CRAZE DURING FOOTBALL GAME

Up yellows; greens; reds and blue,
tell me! Tell me, who is through?
Passes. Crosses. Headers. Shots.
Volleys, blasters, more scissor kicks
tell me! Tell me, whose on the spot!

Ninety minutes with some overtime
eleven players playing in the field
each one targets to be World Champ!
The strikers...

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I
"Gotta job as a nanny!"
"Maybe they'll hire me as a butler"
"Butler and nanny always live
in close quarters"
She winks
He raises and eyebrow suggestively

II
"I love flirting with poets
so...
palpable"
"Indeed my dear, indeed.
We are a flirtatious, passionate creature"
"But we're also dramatists
adulterers
alcoholics
and prone to murder and suicide"
"Yes, some may look...

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MY BIRTHDAY DURING COVID

The laughter’s the same
my forty-fifth year,
with a softer refrain
for the birthday song.

My forty-fifth year,
my coworkers gather
for the birthday song,
ten-person skeleton crew.

My coworkers gather
six feet apart,
ten-person skeleton crew
extending beams of friendship.

Six feet apart,
their eyes shine
extending beams of friendship
across the social distance.

Their eyes shine
as...

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MY REASONS EASE LIFE DURING MOMENTS OF STRUGGLE


Why do I need the most beautiful gift?
for mercy within the storm of MY rift-
The beauty of atonement when wrong, 
my faith has given me vigor all along. 

There are REASONS beyond my comprehension, 
much EASE in moments...

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•	Germany
•	Italy
•	Japan
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Ways to avoid running out of money

During your retirement years

Do not drink anything but tap water

Do not eat regular store bought food

Eat leaves and grass and stuff

Flavoured with the juice

Of a squeezed acorn leaf

Food as you know it today is strictly taboo

However, occasionally you can...

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A Wedding During Football Season

By Elton Camp

It has often wisely been said
Football season’s no time to wed

Let’s make one thing quite clear
It’s only four months of the year

So a wedding on the day of a game
Is so incredibly selfish and lame

Your wedding may be significant...

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On Pebble Beach's seventh green
I paused to watch an otter.
He dove, cavorted, spun around,
An acrobat on water.
Then lolling, drifting, eyeing me
He twitched brown nose and whiskers.
His thought, that moment, mirrored mine:
"He plays all day, that rascal."...

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I AM A CHILD DURING CHRISTMAS


Sing
the joys
of 
Christmas
carols: La!
La!la! 
Dance
and pray
that troubles
be miles away!
Evergreen 
boughs fill,
each
doors home--
their scents stir
child-like
lips
to smile
long!
_______________________________________
***Waltz Wave
4:06pm, December 09,2015...

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Bristling yet beguiling winds are
driving snow sheets through the dark,
and, secured by brick and lamp,
I draw a comforter to my breast,
one woven by humanity.

I sense that each quickening gust
is pulling through the loom of time
life's many multi-colored threads.

A hickory brown is borne to me
of ships...

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Written by Gail DeBole
On December 8, 2021
Updated on February 6, 2025

Before his fans entered the funeral’s door
They all read a sign that they couldn’t ignore.

The sign listed rules to be followed by his fans
Who had come to show respect for this funny man.

He wanted to...

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The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
                          for Fleur Adcock (b. February 10, 1934)

	The...

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