Best Equaled Poems

The world's grey. Slowly, methodically,
Feathers from colorful birds have been burned.
Sheep in a fog on a snowy mountain.
One man thought uniformity equaled
Superiority, ugly furor.
Their ashes floated down all around us
There's no color left in this sooty world.
Beauty's palette swirled with color beckons.
Diversity screams for a...

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Over a hundred years of miracles
     dating back well before statehood
   Pioneers who made the desert bloom
     Though no one thought they could 

   Fighting off constant terror attacks
    ...

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“And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly  - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that equaled them.”  Samuel Clemens in his younger years when he worked for Muscatine Journal and before he took the...

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"The world is your oyster,"
Some wise man once said.
This wise man was nuts,
What was wrong with his head?

The world's a cold place,
Which is easy to see;
From our cool, mirky waters;
To our beautiful, dead trees.

They used to talk about soulmates,
When love equaled life;
Now they murder the...

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I love you my darling with all my heart
Wonder how many times that's been said
At the moment of passion when love bursts forth
Two hearts intertwine, passions fed

That moment of bliss, the follow up kiss
Is there anything else that compares
With this overpowering lust and desire
The sheer...

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My heart skipped a beat
When I saw you
I heard your voice
Damn I thought it couldn’t be true
A Nubian Queen was  talking to me
I though they all passed away
When the world became brand new
My mind raceing
thoughts
Of this beauty rush through my mind
Her skin , Her...

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Cruel 
Cross
Suffering 
Cross
Painful
Cross
Humiliating
Cross
"But he was wounded for our transgressions
He was bruised for our iniquities
The chastisement of our peace was upon him
And with His stripes we are healed"
The cost
Of Cross
Equaled
Forgiveness
Mercy
Healing 
Peace
Eternal life  

Quotation marks: Isaiah 53:5
Transgression means to revolt, rebel, sin against human or divine...

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CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

Of all creatures great and small
Insects are most assiduous folk of all 
They perform assigned duties each day
And let nothing dissuade them on their way
The till the soil and collect the forage
Their labor brings them food, some for storage 
Their diligent spirits...

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Wobbly, these feet… sagging on miles
of dangled reeds: a hike takes me
to an attic of moonlight, bestowing bows
of serenity prayers for wayfarers
unyielding to a precise compass
of direction, reckless as it were, 
losing the self to gypsy stones
and nomadic thistles bearing my trails...
for a moment, I...

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The Hush of Christmas Past


It came more slowly then.
After Thanksgiving
the lights and decorations
started showing up.
The excitement started to build.
Santa showed up at the
department store,  The
ads in the newspapers
were larger, some even
in color.  There was talk of
“the list”, and “naughty or nice”.
It was agonizing...

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Sodium and Chlorine Go On a Date

By Elton Camp

Nate and Clio were electrically okay
Protons equaled electrons that way

But there was a good reason why
When they went out, sparks did fly

Nate gave one of his electrons away
And so became positive on that day

Clio added his electron...

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IT is on Sunday, on lonely day
A regret walks into my soul
Abode,my soul became to him
He grew and grasp my soul wholly.
My thought feeds him pretty well

"Her power of eyes had equaled to mine
Yet the time is too late,late to go back
When she is in...

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(21st century pearly white prosthetics,
restored jaw bar wah key) 

Aye noel hunger bristle,
and when false teeth soak at night 
     in tandem with stubby facial gristle
har reckon noah kisses
 
     far me under mistle
toe, which prickly stubble...

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There are teams

There are great teams
Then, there are dynasties
In the world of women's sports
There have been few that measure up

To the 2019 USA Women's World Cup Soccer Team
Every one of these 23 talented women
Has been groomed for this purpose their whole lives
Playing, working, training, focusing,...

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(Fever Cure)

When I was just a young lad,
and one respected ones
mum and dad!
An annual visitor
uninvited befelled one’s youth,
an infliction born of
distempered walls
and arctic drafts.
The doctor would be called
to staidly produce an opinion,
“Seven days indoors”
Before proceeding to scribble
in Latin, my wholesome cure,
“A cure to endure”
If only...

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