Best Heck Poems

How the Heck!

We’d lost our cat; I searched the house calling
“Here kitty, kitty” and outside we
scanned the streets, all to no avail.
Later, in the bedroom, I 
heard one loud “Me-ow” and
saw through the crack of
one closed drawer
two green eyes
peering
out.


A true story. To this day, we...

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7/29/18





All over the road, about to wreck
One of many causes for yet another death


Too many chickens giving each other pecks
They just look and rubberneck


Person overboard, from falling over the deck
Luckily they had on a life vest


No offense
I don't want to sit around and work behind...

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we're trapped, and,
inherently speaking
those of us here don't want us to escape  : )
what a     : )

........

life is time
time is life
it is mine
like a wife

there is no contradiction
(that is not how) it seems
we live in an abstract
(multi-dimensional) the means

ah, the...

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Written in the late 1970's
Updated on June 12, 2012


In the summer, a zebra exclaimed,
"That sweaty lion can keep his mane!
     It's a pain 'round his neck
     When he's hotter than heck.
My white stripes will reflect the sun's...

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Budding, new,
waiting to bloom.
Small, quaint, but
frustration looms.
Where are they?
Blushing, I fume!
Thirty-two bra size ~ I’m doomed.
:( 

 
nette onclaud’s contest entered 6/16/2012: 
THE CROWN OF MY BODY----A WHITNEY...

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That cancer has ravaged my family, it is true
My mom first with melanoma at age forty-two,
Bone cancer took my Uncle Cladie for a ride
Until the pain caused him to commit suicide,
My dad lost his battle to non-Hodgkins lymphoma
Then, my wife Deb succumbed to a rare...

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Still walking in dreamland at this very late stage
My heads in the clouds, but I'm on to the last page
It ain't over yet
Still randy by heck
Before I run amok better lock me in a cage


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Hey Willie howya doin?
How I hope y'doin' fine
I haven't heard a word of you
In too damn long a time

So I'm sittin' here just wishin'
That there's really nothin' wrong
And someday like tomorrow
You'll sing another song

There's lotsa folk that's singin'
and some songsa kinda fine
But I haven't heard...

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I’ve been known to buck a bale or two in my day
And I’ve loved a gal or a few and rode away.

I’ve dug up taters for just a dollar a day—
I’ve clerked in stores and let the boss man have his say.

There’s few ‘round here...

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Born and raised in Brooklyn,
with a poetic heart to write.
Anticipated in making friends,
all poetic forms bring him delight.

With a love for ice skating,
at the Franconia Notch Lakes.
Inspiration is set to verse,
from the photographs he takes.

He winds down with opera music,
Carmen and Turandot are his fav’s.
With...

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Admittance of Your Guilt
Reflections 
You did this and you did that
Having to explain my every move
With time difference so huge
Felt like a criminal 
Nothing I said, you believed
What is the use of this?
A relationship so blessed
I felt like a spring flower


I guess winter came and...

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Witchy wind
       Haunted world. 





      (Written for Halloween poetry contest)...

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The following harkens to the past when I worked for a supremely idiotic furniture 
company, and I, as other managers, had to explain to customers who waited 8-
12 weeks, on the day of promised delivery, or, if lucky, the night before, that their 
furniture could...

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What the heck is happening to me?
Seems that everyone just won’t let me be

First a crazy supervisor who hates me so
Think it’s my color or maybe my afro?


I try to be polite avoiding drama to no end
No matter what I try, I just can’t win

Then...

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Heck of a Day 
I was sitting on a bench watching people go by.
Up and down the mall, in all shapes and size.

Across from me was a wanne be model..
Long legged, tiny waist, an "air headed" dawdle.

In the store behind the black metal bench...
Was a...

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