Best Far From Clear Poems

Play rain , play melancholic tunes
Play closely to my ear, I need to hear

I want to listen to Sinatra's toe-tap sounds
As you fall, fall slowly to the ground
outside my great-grandmother's house.

Play rain, Come down and break the silence
Bring puddles to the desert
Puddles far from clear,...

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If I was to take a word, say focus,
Stand it on its head,
And ask with growing sense of dread,
Why my friend did you just now,
Fly upon this particular 
Moment’s verbal locus?
Torture I might answer, like waterboarding,
Might explain a thing or two.
Indeed the stakes are dear,...

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Out, of the ordinary
Fairy tale, without the fairy
A family that seems a little scary

Winter, without the storming 
Crucial, just not necessary
So strange, extra-ordinary
A world with perfect people.

No, you wont find me
Anywhere but here
The way you see me
Is pretty far from clear
A little different, not everyday
You...

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Mary had a little lamb
who's fleece was white as snow.
She took it out into the field,
and that lamb Mary did let go.
But only to pull out her gun,
and that lamb Mary she did blow.

She lives in vein inside her brain
a failure to sustain.
Beneath her mane...

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Sit in the shroud of darkness for a few hours
Watch people during the night I feel pleasure
Inside I feel like the bodies falling from the twin towers
Crack my skull open to find a hidden treasure
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Knowing people stare and tremble in fear
It helps me feel sweet...

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He didn’t make 100
So there’ll be no birthday fest
But the Windsor Castle Chapel
Is where he will lie at rest.

Prince Philip died at 99;
The flags will fly half-mast, 
With ceremonies more subdued
Than in pre-Covid past.

The Queen and all her subjects 
Will join in to mourn the...

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Government May Default

By Elton Camp

I admit that the details are far from clear
But I don’t like what it is that I now hear

If the U.S. cannot pay what it does owe
Then into a tailspin the economy will go

How about all of those highly paid folk
Some...

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