Best Half Inch Poems

Blue – 
for your arm wrapped around
my clavicle. I thought
I would loose my breath.

Red – 
for the cusp of our hip bones
struggling to pull the drunken color
from our orange cheeks.
and our sweat, our sweat, our sweat
evaporating 
in the drenched summer air.
Our pants futile afterthoughts
Left crumpled...

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I was sitting on the back porch ‘bout an hour after dark
When I couldn’t help but notice a tiny pulsing spark.
I thought it was a firefly – It had that kind of glow
But I’d never seen the likes of it – what it was I...

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I’m really not a jealous person. I am happy for those who are fortunate in life.  If I see a lady who has a beautiful family that loves her, I am happy for her.   When a guy pull up in a fully...

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In the corner of a dark closet
Lives an old, old sewing box,
Scratched and painted blue on wicker,
With flowers on its top.

It silently holds a lifetime,
Of buttons, thread, hooks and metal snaps,
A few colored ribbons, needles, and
Half inch elastic that also snaps.

Little pearls from a baby's...

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My (Easy and Delicious) Favorite Dish

If you like ground beef, cheese, and potatoes too,
I’ve got a casserole dish just right for you.

It’s fast and easy, just like A, B, C.,
and the steps for making it are only three.

Step one: Cook onions with some beef (a...

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Big Sur Jade Cabochon

Broken from off underwater cliffs
Slowly pushed by tides and currents
Found by me during a low tide
While searching along Jade Cove
In Los Padres National Forest
Cut into quarter to half-inch slabs
The cut again into an octagon
The octagon grinds down to an oval
A flat surface...

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Driving hard, loving hard, functioning
Vicious circle,never ending,grimacing
Thin ice, danger lurking, worry
One more debt,one too many,interest mounting

Work, work incessantly,always worry
Can't stop the pain,always sorry

Too many hurts to face tomorrow
Dawning day just brings sorrow

Breaking through sliding under clawing now
Kicking hard churning steady just don't drown
Face against the...

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how much has been burnt 
the lips of the aalpanaa
by the heat of the blue letters 

the absentmindedness  
that can penetrate this flavour  
gets hullo-cut
coming to the wedding-relation 

do fly oh bird 
yet you flow with faster steps 
in the deep of the...

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Simon strolled nonchalant through narrow hall           
not a care did he reveal.
Occasionally venting his wild cat call
demanding his evening meal.

This Pixie-Bob was lean from head to toe
with extended pointed ears and padded paws.
He was every...

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Winter storm
Here i sit with no place to go
All are quiet but the windy outside.
No tv the lights are out 
The snow is falling as fast as I type.
The ground is covered with just a little snow.
While the laptop power is about to go.
No cars...

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See these tiny things
Filled with thought profound;
Cute miniatures spring
From creative grounds.


In a format small,
Craft miniature books;
Haiku moments call:
Browse and take a look.


One and a half inch,
The book height is short;
Words squeezed just to lynch
Warm poetry is wrought.


A sure design feeds
Steady hand-skill mints;
This collage craft seeds
Finesse...

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They say Napoleon at his death
had a half inch object in his neck.
He often claimed he had been abducted
By strange men in a strange looking object.

I sometimes wish they would take me too.
Although I'm not much good past fifty two.
Seemingly it's our eggs they're after.
As...

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Here I stand, on a porch of fragrant aspen wood bewildered by the sea of 
sparkling diamonds shimmering in the sun just past the edge of the wood.
	Eyes squinted, for the brilliant sun is lingering high above the earth’s 
atmosphere smiling over the beautiful scenery...

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Walking slowly along the curb of a footpath next to main road staring at the ground,
Swooping every few seconds to feel the smoked dog ends to see if they are intact, dry,
His shabby greasy clothes make him look like an old scarecrow escaped from the...

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Aussie Taipan
To be a Taipan lethal quick
Deadliest land snake
Is my pick
Coffin head and longer fang
Watch out for the boomerang

9 foot long full of venom
Send spear thrower off to heaven
Brown snakes are pussy cats
Suck down an scoff big old rats

If I get to snap at you...

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