Best Foxtrot Poems

Foxtrot for dances or horses?
Both I suppose.
Who does it better?

Comparing them would be 
Like comparing onions to Lazy-boy-recliners,
Comparing lima beans to undertakers,

Comparing lavender to unicorns,
Comparing poetry to poetry.
It simply cannot be done.

Can I have this foxtrot, Mr. Horse?...

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For real in keeping it real.
Ornery man in the political arena -
Xylophone players of classical music support is essential.
Trumping it to be the next in the Oval Office.
Rococo effect you strive for.
Ordinary people are against your representation.
Trump, Donald will be the succeeding President?
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Written March 22,...

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The fated time has now arrived
My thin illusion cracks and dies
Confused, your eyebrows take a dive
Though shattered mask did never lie

Thick volumes of the things I missed
To flowing dancers, such a gaffe
The choreographer is pissed
With knowing looks, the dancers laugh

Why yes, I heard the thumping...

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CAN ONE BE ARRESTED FOR YELLING LIAR IN A CHURCH?

You pious people in your pews
All you reading about the arrival of some wondrously good news
A  new horizon can’t you see?
Well imagine you were with my wife, infant child and me 

We three had left...

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Eyeballing you as a
     sticky bun; pondering how
to reach out without
     getting stuck.

"Perhaps it’s the flare of the
     Season, or more primal
     reasons, but I find
obsession in the chase,...

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A few notes set a rhythm
The foxtrot beckons
Across the crowded room they smile
Nat's melodic tone frames the dance
Towards each other they move
And then they are one
Bodies locked in a dance embrace
The romantic shades of four-four time
Float across the meadows of their hearts
Effortlessly they glide across...

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