Best Gets Poems

Here's a fact, life is no bed of roses.
        It has a habit of knocking us down.
           Whatever injustice it imposes,
Welcome it! Don't let the world see you frown.
   Still laugh at life as though it...

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Some people wish for more life
with their last dying breath
Others hate what they’ve got
and they just wait for their death

Imagine what you could do,
without the fear or regrets
Please stop wasting your time 
it’s not as good as it gets

There are too many souls
void of the light of day
They just dwell in the dark
it shouldn’t be...

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This is the last poem on the history of Felicity, a person I know from correspondence with a friend abroad.  No relation of mine.

In one year's time, I shall retire
What is there to look for?
Two of my daughters got married.
They live quite far from me.
Only Felicity remains, the middle one,
The one I loved most.

Mind...

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When life get hard 
When life get hard, just don't quit 
It's a part of life sometimes she's a bish
Quitters never win and winners never quit 
If you fall down try your best to get up quick.
When life gets hard, just don't quit 
Life is tough sometimes like an unstoppable truck people make up lies...

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Twas on the eve of Christmas and St Nick was feeling glum
because his leading reindeer had some problems with his tum.
With Dasher feeling poorly, Santa wondered what to do,
he needed to leave Toyland soon, but Dasher couldn’t leave the loo.
Shouting through the bathroom door, he reasoned with his deer friend,
“I really need your expertise. Here,...

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Filbert Crumb..... Gets His Wish!

A sad little man was Filbert Crumb....as he sat on the bus. "
Another lonelyday"  He thought to himself.  
Looking up, Filbert saw a little dog.  
Neatly tucked  into a little girls backpack.  
Its' head was peaking out 
and smiled at Filbert.
 
"See, even a dog has a better life than...

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By Elton Camp

For the entirety of his married life
Maurice had been ruled by his wife

For anything that happened to occur
He had no choice but to answer to her

Just ordering him around wasn’t enough
Since Zelda was often violent and rough

Any disagreement she’d always win
Even if she had to use her rolling pin

They were driving one day...

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I Know, This Is Just About, As Good As It Gets

I walk forest paths because they are my best choice
Find the calm by hearing Mother Nature's true voice.
With eyes clear I see fish flop, lake water glisten
I view Nature's paintings, to its music listen.

As welcomed sun renews my newly stirred blood
I wade the low streams,...

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The old fisherman sat in his dory

Empty nets, but concocting a story

It would sure mean his life

Should he greet his young wife

At the dock without financial quarry.


Now his wife was as fit as could be

With the girth and the might of a tree

He considered her ire

Then began to perspire

And headed his boat ... out to...

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Tombs begin to bloom like raw, bloodless wounds.
Tomes are written with truths of her dead moon’s
tones. A keening lunacy keeps the dirges alive, while
bones rise out of repose. A degloved hand on the dial
hones into a night rainbow's radio, she runs on solar,
hopes for the rhythm to wrench free from her toller—
copes with the captivity...

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1)   Find a broom, then go to your room, and give it a good sweep.
 2)   Lie on the couch, when Mom’s a grouch, and pretend that you’re asleep.
 3)   Take a ride on your bike, or take a hike, and best leave the grownup alone. 
 4) ...

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“...The leftists that you voted for
jacked up the minimum wage,
so new workers like me cannot
get hired, much less get paid.

“And those very same people
ignore foreigners who work cheap,
they can work, and break the law,
But the same can’t be done by me!

“And then the proposed solution
to this raging dumpster fire
is to throw others' money at me
until...

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Master
Baker

09~19~14
Contest: Any New Poem
Sponsor: Alfred Vassallo
~awarded 4th place ~...

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Have you ever mourned the blah-ness of your life? Yearning for something new to happen?
Daring to hope for something fresh to be excited about?  Wishing your days away, worried that it has not happened? Angry for no reason other than you have forgotten that video-game playing is not satisfying and subliminal clips of video...

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Sometimes life gets in the way,
  as we toil and strain through the pain
  of lost dreams and future schemes.

We want to think we're in control
  while Fate just laughs
  and takes its toll.

So there you are
  with thoughts of love and fun
  when suddenly it all comes undone.

What...

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