Best Forbes Poems

Jesse Forbes

1893 – 1911

Black Canyon.
Now, there was a place to be!
It is true I was born a brute in a Quaker Town.
Born a bad-tempered brute of a boy
In the two-room digs on Bailey Street and Comstock..
My father fathered two other families,
Unbeknownst to his wife..
And I...

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When I think of your name
I think how delightful it was to have known you

You are extraordinary
You are the reason why everything around me 
Looks beautiful and bright

When I dream of you
I hold you dear to my heart
You my love are the reason 
Why everything...

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forbiding forever forbes to fly forward flawlessly foruitously
falsely fascinated by five fools following fleetingly frantic
flipflops fervently and furiously....

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