Best Hardily Poems

Were I to swim to the edge of the sea,
what splendid scene should await for me?
Would I behold the legendary town
with glittering brick roads and king’s famed crown?
 
Could I uncover the truth in the seed, 
win a place in the king’s absolute creed? 
Anoint...

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Distance separates the pleasures
Of a touch never meant to be kissed
Once lost in void filled rainless
Clouds like tomorrow rewinds  

As yesterday feasts upon my eyes
Won’t open to the realities of 
Emotions felt only in an instant 
Breathing shear insanity 

Picking freckled leaves half buried
Under...

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That's-That's-That's All Folks
By Roy Merritt

There’s a little guy ‘round here 
with a red mustache three feet long
And there’s no one about it seems 
with which he gets along

He’s always angry it seems 
and often pullin’ his gun 
He’s always shoutin’ and cursin’ 
Might shoot you...

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Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon

Tantamount to shrugging Atlas off mine bony, 
   ill suited, widower wizened shoulders, 
would take naked fat chance in Fountain...

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Erect in knee high waters bidding to attain the shoreline that is not discernible in the distance.
I mean not to aggress.
Furious with a rage erupting from my core, spattering into the waters till it abscesses heavily.
I mean not to depress.
I trudge hardily against the resistance...

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Amaryllis 
Blooms 
Caterpillar
Dreams
Eating
Flowers 
Gift
Hardily
In
Joy.
Kalmia
Like 
Miniature
Nuzzling 
Open
Parasols 
Quiver
Radiance
Slightly
To
Unleash
Vibrant 
Warm
Xemial
Youthful 
Zest

8/5/2022


Xenial: Adjective used to describe a friendly relationship between a host and their guests...

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WITH APOLOGIES TO MISS HARPER LEE
By Roy Merritt

It's a sin to kill a mocking bird 
According to Miss Harper Lee
But I'm afraid I'll have to say 
I hardily disagree
Because you know them birds 
They're a pain in the rear
And if you don't believe that 
Just...

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Torpedo grass is a noxious weed.
To gardeners, it’s a plant they don’t need.
Widespread, it almost never grows from seed.
Some botanists say it hails from Asia.
Others claim the plant comes from Africa.
Either way, this weed made it to America.
Panicum repens is its taxonomic name.
One of the...

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Italia we strolled the country side throughout 
the villages of Sicily peeking through stone 
ways above garden nooks of Puglia catering to 
the soft and sensual galleries of floral canvases 
that covered scented walk ways gathering the 
divine taste of hidden vines borrowed by rows...

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BEING FITTED FOR MY MURDER WAS LIKE ANY OTHER DRESS FITTING WHEN I WAS LITTLE THE TAILOR SHOP WAS ALWAYS EMPTY AWAITING MY PERSONAL FITTING MY POP WENT FIRST WATCHED THE SEAMTRESS CAREFULLY MEASURE HIS ARMS AND COLLARS I WOULD GET THE LOLLIPOPS ON THE...

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A breathy caterwauling doesn’t evoke feelings glowing hardily
Impacting justification.  Kindness leaves meaningful nuances 
off-putting quiet responses,
surging toward unified victorious wins
 ‘xasperating your zaniest assemblies....

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If I transformed myself into something
that feels no joy or expresses no feeling:
like those stones in the wilderness
that feel no warmth or coldness,
I'd get rid of this carnal lust...
not fearing what it may cost!

A long wait by the silent telephone 
is like dying slowly
without ...

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If I had done exactly what Jesus asked me to do,
this bitterness wouldn't hang heavily over me
and my broken spirit that can't find a patch of blue...
when the cloudy skies wouldn't defy serenity!


I should have obeyed and understood when He spoke aloud,
" The blessing begins...

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hairy ghoul added juice to gruel
daughter thought he was a big fat fool
mind your business he said
you recent undead
she turned to go to monster school

gruel was gurgling hardily so
thus, she did not mind having to go
she got her backpack
and shoes off the rack
yelled goodbye to...

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I am an observer of people, places, and things.
I have watched many of them mount up with wings.

I have rubbed shoulders with the good, bad, and ugly.
Some lingered awhile, and others departed suddenly.

The bad and the ugly always come in greater numbers
and seem to produce...

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