Best Eschewed Poems

...I took you for your final walk
On that crisp and sunny day
The blanket round your 
shoulders
To keep the chill at bay

We didn't talk the way we 
should
I filled the gaps with platitudes
Tho......

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Willows wheeze while traders weep
A head for softer shoulders grasped
Spread another bid too deep
On margin calling crumpled dreams collapsed

Umbrellas saved the follicles
While f......

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...Why is the middle where I put a book down?
My anticipation dies at that half-read interlude.
I lack the discipline that keeps me inbound.
A famous author's endings should be praised, and not esche......

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...True, Moses wrote of righteousness, one based upon the law.
But Paul proffered an alternate, eschewed the tragic flaw.
Salvation based on works alone: a concept misapplied.
For all, not most, have......

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                               Your Best Poet Friends
                                       9/15/2023


            Poet Friends read you first, no matter what!
            They crave your......

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...These days of changing values can be hard:
What once was just, today's considered wrong.
Some things encouraged now at one time jarred,
Abandoned now are values once held long. 

Unquestioned ru......

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...If slavery was a choice, as some have agreed, then what are we?
If watching your father and mother endure rape or murder was a choice,
Then why do we sit on idle hands, while Trump eradicates our p......

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...The father has left the family, 
To chart new territories somewhere 
So the mother looks to God for strength 
To bring up her little girl 
Who will only get the best she vows 
While watching the chil......

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...Bright-eyed youths have risen early
			Ready for their special day
			Eager for the life awaiting
			Afterwards, without delay.
			Time for them is of the essence;
			Hopes and dreams must be pu......

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...I walk in the shadow of death,
I have neglected to care for my soul,
creeping age, brings it close with each breath,
Faith is the breath for your soul to be whole.

But when faith, no longer is ......

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...Once More…
(Apropos Orlando)

Once more and again
bigotry spreads
like a keloid of shame
across the face
of the promise land.

Once more
liberty and justice
proves to be 
only for some—
......

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...Jude's
                          no prude, but
                  photo'd nude whilst
                               viewed by
                     some crude
                      multi-hued
        ......

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...~THE  USA NATION~

Observe, the very last of boys and girls.
Teachers decide now if they might be birds?

Educators, these, are also high above you.
Parents’ rights are summarily eschewed!

T......

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...Newborn baby please don't cry
Don't blame yourself that your mom died
She perished for you, she had her time
She wanted you to have yours in this life
Newborn baby your mom loved you
That's why she t......

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...what a running chestnut sounds like                                                                                                                                    when Parting ways with a damsel ......

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