Best Extra Poems

Extra

There are two of us in the house now. 
Not four or six or eight. 
We have more than we need.
We have an abundance of…

How many jackets can we wear?
How many shoes for our feet?

How many blankets do we store and more?
Why do we have...

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When you are living on the street
depressed, lonely, hungry, and beat,
begging coins for something to eat;
you need more than a smile.

People scoff and offer small-change
labeling you as weird or strange,
treating you like you had the mange;
each day is a trial.

You pray someone will help you...

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Marmoset directs traffic better than monkeys or sloths.
He stands in the highway and walks his feet off.
We have hired other species. but they do not hold a candle.
To Marmoset who can do it at every single damned angle.

He is demanding a raise, sixteen more meals...

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When I am honest with my belongings 
I am amazed to find that I have surrounded myself
With things that I thought I could not live without
Once upon a time…..

But once upon a time is long gone, and these things
no longer give me joy, or make...

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When someone feels alone, forlorn
Like the world has left them to mourn
The charming joys, the wonders born

Rousing a gentle fate

Inspired by gifts from hearts so pure
Lovely dreams, feelings who endure
The broken, worries so demure

Gentle that cannot wait

Struggles to go that extra mile
For the beauty of...

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Truth is we're extra close. And lately I really have no idea where I would be without you. When everyone else has given up on me for how I've been acting. You stick right beside me. I can talk to you about everything. And you...

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Numbers and letters on Excel
Determine how I excel
Teacher plays wizard
Competition rises
Prize of apples, robes, cars
Blood thirsty blood hounds
On a chase
Or a race
Bye, childhood
Friendliness no longer exists
I’m a monster
New goals
Apples, robes, cars
Sweat, blood, tears
What is chivalry?
Camaraderie?
It’s a hunt
For apples, robes, cars
Must survive...

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It makes me say,' Oh eeew,'
To see a dirty loo.

* not in my house, lol

For Susan's Ordinary contest...

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Although there's a lovely prep nurse
Cystoscopy feels like a curse
The lidocaine gel
Does not mitigate hell
I briefly hoped they'd call a hearse


Author's note: One of life's interesting procedures for some in this civilized country.  This does create P-PTSD for some of us. This is a...

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Once there were two friends “truth“& “extra”
One wants to dominate the other – no mantra
“extra”- expert in martial arts
“truth”-intellect also good in arts
Bloody it’s obvious truth dominates! poor extra!...

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The twelfth man
Longs for mishap, injury
No show, tragedy
His heart beat intense
To play, ill will’s dominance...

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One hung stocking overflows
with a child’s treasury of
brightly colored gumdrops and
hard, sweet-filled candies.

Sugar cookies peek out from
the top of my treat-filled sock:
angels, stars, wreathes and snowmen
painted with frosting!

Catching my attention is
a movement from a stocking
beneath the tree, and I hear
a wonderful sound.

A whiskered face emerges
with...

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It really looks like success is at hand

Sleep apnea is finally at bay

Guess I'm good for another few years

Hallelujah! Oh happy day

I'm waking up singing a happy refrain

Have an extra skip in my step

Thought I was done for, the jig was up

For my parting I...

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Richard clerihewed me yesterday
Why the nerve, I should have got him first I say
Then I laugh still wondering if clerihewed is a word
Realizing that many conventions in our language are up surd   

The Clown of Clerihews, what a moniker Moe would say
I could...

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No Extra Innings

Baseball games are won by keeping score,
But hold no interest for me any more.
I realized, when it became clear to me,
How like relationships the game can be.

The pitcher I knew threw devious curves,
Many from which I just couldn't swerve.
I took his pitches, but...

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