Best Gaffs Poems

The colorant of dawn, the cardinal sees,
intoning its hues with, “pretty...pretty...pretty.”

As I covet red feathers, in the teaberry tree,
the sunlit chickadee harmonizes, “hey sweetie.”

The woodpecker like a heckler is pining for laughs -
pounding, drumming the marionette for gaffs.

A tufted titmouse tweets, “peter...peter...peter.”
The goldfinch dines on...

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One by one
yellow-fins are gathering.
Their salty hearts gently filling 
with the indigo currents
of struggle -of living.
Tide treading the present...
back-stroking(grimacing) the past. 
Front-crawling into future's moaning crag.
Dorsal fin topped dreams and crimson cream 
never seem to last...
or do they?

The wicked wield wicked nets... squeezing tighter.
Calloused gaffs...

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You puckered up your lips
You went and cut your Beatle fringe
You squeezed in your bikini
And you trimmed your ginger minge
Your shadow on the beach eclipsed
The bathers on the sa-a-a-a-nd
Oh Tru-u-u-udy! You're out to bag a man
.
She lazes on the beach
Down by the Purple Dolphin Bar
She...

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May I introduce myself, but I’m not sure how,
My given name was different to what it is now.
Amanda Michelle, they named me back then,
But nobody told me until I was ten.
I’m now known as Mandy for good and for bad,
Life has been hard but please...

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Can you imagine God that laughs?
Well I feel sure I can!
When “Christians” flock to Church in droves
Though sinful to a man.
A God who tolerates the gaffs
That we plunge in his side,
Though we may pray for daily loaves,
We won’t let go of  pride.

Imagine too a...

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ginger mustard and spices
A mild aromatic genetic fruit scone...

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Orange and reds - the vibrant shmooze of Fall.
The social froth of maple shapes, and oak.
The chatty leaves infringe upon us all,
As piney-green hangs back for Winter folk.

A cocktail mixed with children’s play and gaffs.
Their brooms and sheets do trick and treat through streets
Of cold...

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those little drips of word and water
that spill over but shouldn't oughter

gaffs and chaffs and blurbs that spot
sayer or sprayer marked insensitive clod

clothes spotted damp, pride marked too
antagonizing other camp, unable to redo

even royalty’s spoken without utmost decor
found themselves cast as party's gauche boar

try to...

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She took some care making her choice
A Valentine's Day card
It is a silly little thing
"It shouldn't be this hard"

But she still feels indecision
Selecting the right one
To set the proper tone for them
"With just a touch of fun"

Short careful and personalized
To give that perfect mood
But not...

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[ with a hint of the bridge from A Man Has Dreams
sung by the character George Banks in Mary Poppins ]


A bank is a community where people banked
They did so with impunity until it tanked
When interest, like a river, overflowed its banks
And fishes, schooled communally,...

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This was the year that I Iost all my flab,
Met so many people
Ì'm really quite glad
That i put on my shoes
And took to the floor,
Watch out 2020,
I'll be back for more!

This time last year you were strangers to me,
And now i see some of you...

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Were You To Be Gone

Could I carry on
Were you to be gone
I guess I can
But do understand 

The skies would be blue
But have no more color
Not driving with you
Would lose all of its wonder

Songs would be noise
Losing all of its joy
Sunshine on Leith
Sounding more like...

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6 Feb 2011 12:45 pm

Drowning my emotions
While swimming in lifes oceans

Amidst an armada of failures and fears
Cannons fireing accusations and insults and stinging tears

Swords of words are slicing at my soul and stabbing at my heart
Gaffs that hook and pull me tareing me apart

What can...

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intimidating serrated crest
emulates Ansel's view
challenges down-clad one
to climb her stretch-marked belly

a gaze upward
at silver glazed wall
the glacial rock face
mirrors reflection

filigree flakes
dissolve on the tongue
boot prints sink
crackle the earth

snow-white evergreens
sovereigns at treeline
bark shushing commands
silencing animals

knurled branches
dangle icicle prisms
sun-spotted glister
blinds vision of peril

jagged shards cleave
ragged gashes rake...

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Here's What Super Tuesday Told Me
By Franklin Price
03/04/2020

Here's what “Super Tuesday” told me,
As I think of yesterday.
Biden made a come-back.
That's the first I have to say.

That Bernie's lost momentum,
And he's coming from behind.
Puts my faith back in our founders.
Was about to lose my mind.

I hope...

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