Best Every Quarter Poems

Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already  have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.

Dad had joined the army that year and we  moved from the...

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Tick tock tick tock goes your clock
time passes and passes my time
tick tock, tick tock goes my life time
Quarter hour you sing a song
Every quarter you sing away the time
Chimes and ding dong on the hour
My power is fading with the sun set
Sing me a...

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Predictions work in twists of what makes life workable
High and often misconstrued by the dogma of science
Lies and damned lies and statistics for the insecure
Foes foretold surprise when the blindfolds shed masks
In the light of darkness mascara and games people play

Tim’s Persona crumbles in silent...

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How can I feel so tired?
I've slept for most of the day,
Being in constant pain,
Is causing me dismay.
It's not just my knee,
I have cervicalgia to put up with too,
My right side is shot to ****,
What the bloody hell am I to do?
I'm taking tramadol and...

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day and night Blattaria of various shapes and sizes 
scuttle with incandescent 
   after glow as flashing blur rises
to fill every quarter of mine cerebral core, when asleep pries
me lids awake with shell shocked horror consumed as curse 
   more heinous...

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.          We worked it out on paper and realized if we saved our ten cents a week allowance, 
it would take years to pay for them, so we decided we needed to get a job. ...

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The Clock
to Barbara with all my love Frank
By Franklin Price
1/26/2016

The clock stands in our living room in a place where it should be.
It represents my love for you. It's there for all to see
Walking past I hear it ticking, for our lives a metronome
The pendulum...

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Life lost in saline streams
Straining to see
Possibilities in reams and streams
Crane to love me

Although I desire nothing unproven
In the world I grapple to save
From madness and sadness woven
In webs only the brave

Dare to challenge
In the open where nerves
Bent on revenge
Achieve rubbish that serves

No useful purposes
In...

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Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats, 
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple rope, knowing this, or any flight, could be his last....

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If i could steal the love from all of the hearts on earth.
It wouldnt amount to a fraction of what you deserve.
If i made a million dollars tomorrow, you could have every cent.
Every quarter, kniccle, and dime i ever make, you can get.
If i had...

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After years here in the city with the constant traffic flow,
and the daily grind all based on work to have the coffers grow
or keep the kids in school and provide for what is middle class,
there needs to be an outlet where there is open space...

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There’s Little Doubt of the Outcome

By Elton Camp

When fighting one more powerful than you
To succeed there is practically nothing to do
Very soon you’ll be lying flat of your face
Beaten, bruised and in complete disgrace

And that’s the way it is with our Uncle Sam
When his rules...

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every minute of every hour
every heartbeat, every thought
every dawn that reaches across
every quarter of every moon
every tide that ebbs then flows
every whisper, every song
every feeling ever known
every single evening prayer
every dream is always you...

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First night in his final place
My dad called me weeping
“Please Bobby bring me home.”

His skin like ice cream
Melting on handle bars
Plopped in his wheelchair
Square
In the center cone of an empty room

Plaster cracked
A single nail
Where a clock once hung like a moon

He said, “They won’t tell...

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Super Moon so mesmerizing
Extra-terrestrials 
Aliens
Do they wonder who’s on Earth
Come greet Earth's homo-sapiens

You captivate me from above
I thank you and 
I send you love
Your beam of light 
shines through the night
Super Moon so luminescent

Your ever changing girth
Every quarter a rebirth
Culminates in all your glory
Super Moon...

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