Best Flesh Out Poems

Excise Exercise 1.

Today is the Day she prints out her poems-
a careful first time collation of black and white,
and every color to be seen, in between.
Her Heart clings to words of lost love. And hope.
Which scores are true keepers of internal Self?
In your face front...

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Once upon a time I could change the oil and give the car a lube,
Tune the timing, change the plugs and patch an inner tube.
In days of yore I'd do simple jobs beneath the old elm tree.
Nowadays, I daren't twist a wrench without an engineer's...

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On those nights when the ghosts walk around your house,
And a strange child's laughter rings familiar
Even ice cream has no use
Days gone by, instilled in sepia
Flesh out the glow of love long past, real or false...

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Bright, orange, white, flicker.....
Two black eyes, one dark mouth viewed,
I'm the flame inside

They trim the flesh out
Stubby children's hands; entrails
I'm the flame inside

My face-like windows
My removable roof-top
I'm the flame inside...

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I WISH I KNOW WHY

A clot of blood into fetus my full form appear,
So unique I know for I have no siblings;
I rip pictures off my wall,
Names of fake dudes out of my list;
I wish I know why, attracting hate even when l'm not 
the...

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I'll write to you of medieval ages,
Foreign lands,knights and of many sages.
Medieval verse,and versification
With ancient meter I shall imitate,
To flesh out this age's animation.
And stories fictional and real I'll tell.

The souls of sundry virtues and vices
I shall show to men of all kinds of eyes,
So...

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KING IN A CORNFIELD 
  
When my effigy was impaled 
for all to see                
yours, on the other hand found a place to hide
around the outer edges of my...

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I
To all you wannabe poets,
Here's a word of advice ere you start:
If you want folks to love it,
Keep your ego out of it,
When you write always write from the heart.

II
It's great fun to write haiku and sonnets
About rainbows and gay Easter bonnets,
But if you find...

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I lie amongst the rats all curled up
Crying
Tears of anger, helplessness and pain

I lie in wait 
The worst is yet to come
I shake uncontrollably

I am helped up, only to be pushed back down
There are eyes all around me, watching me
Jeering and laughing

I am kicked and...

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A variation on a theme by Dr. Seuss...

There once was a Grinch who was bad to the bone,
Which was why he always spent Christmas alone,
But one year the Grinch said, "Enough is enough!"
And decided to steal everyone's Christmas stuff.

In the village below, in the center...

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It is grand when it works which is most of the time,
Man's path both hope and prayer you see,
Most times progress is possible! Look! Here's a rhyme!
If you work at it, you could be me!

It seems faith in the future can help in a jam,
Though...

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The precipitous day drools on 
yellow and slightly rancid, buttressed in buttery light   
 by a gray glazed glint from the Pacific.
Vertical skeletons of flesh and concrete bob
 with a hallucinatory air,
some freshly coiffed and others surfaced 
with the scar tissue of ages.
Halloween...

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I hate robocalls!

Inxs of recorded messages   
transmitted automatically 
to my telephone number 
by automatic dialing device.

I turn off damn ringer,
and disassemble (carefully 
as disabling a time bomb) 
internal workings nevertheless...
telephone still buzzes
twenty four seven
eight days a week
automated telephone calls
digitally recorded message
perfectly spoken English

differentiation...

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I turn off damn ringer,
nonetheless...
telephone still buzzes
twenty four seven
eight days a week
automated telephone calls

digitally recorded message
perfectly spoken English
differentiation to distinguish
"FAKE" simulation
all bot impossible
totally immune to escape

gagging hospitable invective
electronic jawboning immunized
against antipathy, cruelty, enemy,
hostility, insecurity, pleasantry
Yukon run to tallest mountain
dive into Mariana Trench
get catapulted into

outer limits...

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Always envious of gifted individuals with neat hand printing/writing

Gnome hatter heroic measures taken
moost ludicrously asinine,
nonetheless hoop fully
me legendary penta meat herd bovine design

of modest fellow (me) will endure as divine,
no matter not one bloody poetic line
pertains to original (above crafted)
storied title of mine
completely buried under

thick...

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