Best Gotten Poems

Peeking through my corner bedroom window

playing hide and seek

 the ocean's breath pushes through

the semitransparent white curtains 

allowing the sun to shine and smile

upon my half-opened squinted eye.

I close my eyes and try to dream

dream of that night

dream of you and me

that star filled summer...

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Peter has gotten a new job
as a bookstore clerk from one to ten
down by the river
in a sunny little house.
I've come to visit and I'm thumbing through
a book of poems
by Robinson Jeffers' brother.
Incoherent but
more interesting than this.

Out of the river rises a bum of a...

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Suffering with a toothache
Started on the weekend
Appointment on Monday
See the Dentist at ten

This was no wimpy ache
A “King Kong” of a hurt
I kept on popping pills
Still pain would not avert

By that Monday morning 
Pain spreading through my chin
At the end of my rope
Somehow this pain...

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Deep into my soul you have gotten liking running through a field of fresh cotton. the color purple in the mist of my horizon. no longer afraid to love or show compassion. Deep into my soul you gotten. you've found you diamond in the rough....

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Anxiety ridden and broken down;
I back out of the deal and I cash in my hand-
All before I even know the stakes.
Or the taste of your sweat.
I watched your body hit the ground;
I watched your chest heave its last breath.
Now again, I try to reach...

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We shouldn’t have gotten a shed
For I’m sure you can guess where it’s led -
Saving things we don’t need;
With it gone, guaranteed,
We’d throw things in the garbage instead.

Now the mice have a place they can hide
When it’s freezing or raining outside.
They leave droppings behind
Which, of...

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Although I've Gotten a Bit Wiser

There is of course the ruin of the old,
when the dead pass through them
like dreams or shadows, darkly
and without purpose-

drinking wine and prune juice they 
forget the dead in a hideous chair
outside the GS supermarket.

How do I forget the dead?

How...

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I thought I had gotten away from this part of my childhood,
but I turned at lettuce and ran into my cousin Linden
in the grocery store last Thursday.
He was delighted and dragged me back to their house 
to observe more of their childish games.

Unlike in the...

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The moon wears a mantle made of a rain cloud
This is the reason that he’s soaking wet
The moon might have gotten a bad cold
His pale face looks like paper under dim light

Please take off your mantle of rain cloud
To brighten my nostalgic dream that is...

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12/27/21


Did poorly or was doing just fine
The outcome was negative or had a plus sign
Always not just sometimes
Being one of a kind
Under the moonlight and sunshine
When it took a turn for the worse or was sublime

No longer getting brushed aside
Seeking what it is that I...

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“I must have gotten that from you”
That’s what my daughter Edie said
In reference to her perfect feet
Which I so often said I had

 My math class is easy for me
“I must have gotten that from you”
That’s what my daughter Erin said
Taking calculus at the U.

My...

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Ill -gotten Gains 
False premise
Path falsely taken
Road stolen by feet 
Not meant to roam 
The road ahead 
Came to bit in the ass
Plans obtained by false 
Appearances of many years 
Of falsehoods portrayed
An I'll fated attempt at 
Trying to impress another
Who never truly gave a...

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I am awake
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I used to see the light
Of the morning sky
I used to feel the drip
Of your early cry
As I'd wake up next to you
I'd suddenly feel it too

So you might as well say
That my mind's gotten away
From me today
But I'll never be the same again

I used...

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How To Have Gotten

Many answers exist how to get over a hump,
That are sung to the tune of Throw Out Trump;
At odds always,
Nights and days;
In the road, he sure has been one big bump.

Jim Horn

Did you see or hear any onomatopoeia,
or similes or metaphors anywhere?...

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