Best Earshot Poems

...When your befuddled mind
Forsakes upon the ragged edge
Of swirling darkness;
Where eternal night awaits
To sate upon purest innocence
Besides an open grave!
When the gravity of your perils
Be ......

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...
Our oldest light goes by the name cosmic 
microwave background radiation—
CMB for short. She's everywhere: 
fluorescent birdsong of modern offices, 
hum of corner store ice cream cases. 
Have ......

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...Renegades Foreva!

Renegade teenage rage babes 
thinkin’ they all grown, all knowin’ 
when they seedlin’s barely sown
bleedin’ teenage angst with teenage crankst
always rhymin’ and mis-timin’ s......

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...GRAVE RECYCLING

Installed in cargo pockets,
A vivid-glass, a little green bag,
A pod, silverplatted case,
Which Guca-hides, Pallmalls, and a bic.

You're barfoot in tombstones.
You're father......

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...it was dark out, school done for the year
i thought Mom forgot all about me
running the streets late with my friends
it was my first evening of freedom
within, mind you, earshot of her call

we......

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...Trapped in a sinuous labyrinth,
I run down twisting corridors of well-trodden soil,
flanked on each side 
by bushes twice my height!
I go left; I go right;
turning left again, I hit a wall.
For......

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...I know, I know. 
For some of you people, it's hard. 
You have no choice.
Your parents didn't teach you any better. 
If at all.
If you had any parents to speak of. 
And the crowd you run with is......

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...We used to Communicate, Brainstorm, Debate
but I find you've been quiet and distant, of late.

Just what aren't you Saying? What is the good Word?
To find out, I eavesdropped and here's all that ......

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...(A hermit crab has just realized that he can barely fit into his shell and the only other 
creature in earshot to hear his cries is a sea anemone who lives on the hermit crab's shell and has been th......

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...here comes the night,
a deep pitch black,
what's sharper than a ravens call? 
I know not,

ruffled and bothered,
who hears the raven?
it's the witch who hears him,
when he squawks,

her act......

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...She had nothing to gain
This is my only shot
Dance through the pain

It wasn’t my fault she didn’t have a main
Role. She wanted to see me distraught
She had nothing to gain

I can see her try......

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...An extra shot of whiskey,
To keep my hands steady,
A potent dosage of psycho,
To kill everyone in this fermented grotto,
A torrent of tears,
To drown my homicidal regrets and masochistic fears.
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...Sitting on this bench     For an entire season     Committed no errors      No strikeouts     No sure what`s the reason     Made love to the manager`s daughter     In the dugout Before the game     M......

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...With two left feet, no sense of rhythm,
Murmur of voices, giggles and gasps
Comes within earshot when I dance.

Oh, but in my head I dance seductively,
Grinding hips and dippin' with Patrick Swayze.
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...More Potential Limericks

Effective, live, give
Related, created, dated
Contemplated, illustrated, annotated
Realize, chastise, surmise
Talented, Sainted, painted, fainted
Proportion, distorti......

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