Best Haystack Poems

In a moment of magic I once gave her a juicy innocent peach

Not yet knowing that she harboured a sweet nascent dream

In which as a...

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I've been walking down this road alone
  Searching for a way to get back home
    but each brick releases pensive memories
...

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relying on chance 
trying to find a needle 
   inside a haystack

a well-balanced choice
  a winner or a loser
   you...

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She lives

against all odds

'needle in a haystack'

stranger gave her a new kidney

new life


February 7, 2016

Contest: Quin-To Your Five Line Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand

Via her plea...

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CLEM POTTS AND THE MOON

not a pleasant sound
combining potts with the moon,
but, farm girls had learned
clem potts, in his rustic way,
was quite the village dreamer

lord...

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The following limericks are a continuation of: https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/wicked_marys_been_a_bad_girl_1381428


Mary was simply horrid, as a wee girl
She was naughty and selfish, a school yard churl
She picked on...

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What IS worship?
You may not know
if your bored, stare into the air,
recite without insight,
sing without glee,
do not know if you’re free…

What is worship?
It’s a kinship
between...

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Powerball jackpot
The odds are very haystack
For just one needle...

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I’ll tell you all a story
Tis one close to my heart
Has love, Has life, It has a cow
A haystack torn apart
The man in question?
Well that...

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Avoiding the unpleasantries of the Barbarians At The Gate                ...

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How can a day last for so long
and a year go by so fast?
I'm racing for the future
with my wheels spinning in the past.

If the...

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I
Just
Stand
Here
alone.

Factually,
A feat,
A pinnacle of
Engineering at almost
A thousand meters high,
A colossus, an omnipresence  
Comparable to God-
a man made concept 
advertised to exhaustion.

Amongst concrete caricature
cliche’d into...

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I wandered the desert alone, oh, what a dream to remember! 
    'Twas a place of extremes. Gorgeous yet frightening. A swelteringly...

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All Round River and waterfall
Land of the harvest,
This is our village
Betelnut and betel's garden.
Home home the granary
Haystack and cowherd,
This is our village
Magw Bwisagu cheerfully and...

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I don’t know how to start
The story that I want told
The parts that chill me to the bone
And makes my blood run cold

When I was...

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