Best Earmark Poems

Bronco Don Johnson and Bally Watson...

Oh they speak of Bally Watson and the Dirran boys don't laugh...
Yet they tell in whispers how his ear was...

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(my acknowledgement 
to the loose canon of Robert Frost)

An above average snowfall
heavily swathed sage heather 
followed by substantial unusual rainfall
punctuated months before, during and
after the...

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SEED

Every talent is a seed
And every seed has its need
Whatever the seed will be,
Depends on the farmer-holder of the seed

If the farmer discards the seed,
There...

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FOR A MOMENT LIKE THIS


This
Date 
Is something 
Involving 
Intoxicating 
Nothing but more than excitement 
This momentum of drowning is mystifying  us 
This present happening...

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Life became a sweet song of morning lark
As when Iris spoke to me from Denmark
When first saw her in sensual style mark
Young dreams reached a...

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Ned Kelly
DNA
Kelly DNA found
throughout the land,
and down around the
Dungle Bore,
Fred Layton had a
strand,
He had the Kelly
earmark, wore,
his descendants
Harpers, grand,
wore the Dan Kelly
type of ear-lobe,
that DNA...

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March 8th - International Women's Day The World Over

Down to the wire, before this
calendrical occasion doth expire,
though arbitrary twenty four hour
time set aside for guide
ding...

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SHIVERS UP THE BACK

Taking a dive at an amusement park,
He was taught to notice the arc of sharks.

       ...

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TRACKER
A Bushman Tracker knows the way to follow horses here...every hoof is different
He’ll find the track one hoof placed wrong........all have different tracks
And remember it...

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On a truant stroll did embark
Amorous libertine on a lark
Half past eight, almost dark
Chance encounter in the park
Whimsical glance hit the mark
Scintilating essence; a meadowlark
Glowing...

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If in doubt about what to do,
Start up yet another charity,
And ask donors to use their credit cards,
That should ease a conscience or two.

If in...

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Asking that proclaimed advisor's draft
of knowledge, of a cover-up's contract
through séance of confusion, ne'er retract
the pages, twenty eight, protection's path!

Demand the faith to open, future's...

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The treadmill of dissension causing force,
'twas not my earmark, not my focused gain.
A wound inflicted does not heal the source
but only suffers definition as the...

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Miracles lift a sullen mind and spirits touch the doors of the doleful heart
tears of the rain subside  and rays of the sun surely...

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Days are like pages we just thumb through
Everyday every page with so little new
We spend our time as the clock defines
Never really existing, nothing ever...

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