Best Here Today Gone Tomorrow Poems

I knew one day
you'd spread your wings
you'd take my heart
when you cut 
our strings

through the years
Id daydream alot,
worried about that day
then I'd think to myself
"She's...

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Henrietta Hippo
where on earth did you go?

the New Zoo Review
started out as new

but the years flew by fast
and nothing seems to last
...

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Here today gone tomorrow                     ...

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HERE TODAY GONE TOMORROW

Here today    gone tomorrow
Thanksgiving and Christmas Day
We forget    I hate to say

Colors – uplifting music
The great...

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If i died today would you remember me tomorrow?
Would your heart be left in constant sorrow?
Would you cry for me as you wore that black...

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For
three
long years
a lonely
mayfly incubates-
but has just six hours to procreate....

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Someone once gave me advice
That same person cared
More than I realized at the time
Now forever a memory
One slowly fading with time
Know that I love you
And...

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This sonnet was inspired while celebrating my daughter’s birthday. Everyone was eating
cake except me. I hardly ever eat sweets. “A moment on the lips, forever...

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	In the grand scheme of things,
	what are we but tiny
	specks of dust in the wind?
	
	In God's plan, what is life?
	A brief sojourn, like a
	quickly vanishing...

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In the absence of romance,
poetic soul succumbed to slumber,
within an eternal cocoon.

In dreams, heart searched for a place
where love had a meaning.
Where you would love...

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My fractured head, my rough- hewn eyes
Dismembered parts of a dissociated mind
My body severed like Kandinsky’s art.
Spread across a canvas
Corner to sharp corner
Leave no space...

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"O Yellow Lily! You smilingly bloom
   Early in the morning in my terrace garden,
In a jiffy, you take away all gloom,
  ...

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What should I write on Thanksgiving Day?
I don't think I will write about Thanksgiving
But I will write about a heart not be thankful
When you look...

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Take a deep breath of air
Look into the arc of the sun
Today we are full of life
Who knows what the morrow brings

Seasons come and seasons...

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YOU'VE GOT TO BE MISTAKEN, YOU MUST BE WRONG!!!
I cried so hard, for so long
Only seven, 
I’m too young to be an orphan
I remember it,...

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Here today; gone tomorrow
In a blink of an eye there could be great sorrow
Jesting no more, just past memories
Kindnesses give always, even if you disagree

Embrace...

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LIFE’S COMMODITIES  ©

Nails and screws ‘mate’ together
But nails puncture tires when misdirected
Another’s love loss is another’s gain
Love bites break hearts into little pieces
Commodities here...

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I took my students outside
Told them to be still
They looked at me in wonder
Outside of the classroom
What was teacher up to this time?
I whispered….
“What do...

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     Shape Of The Nation (an oval precaution)

News outlets draw the line at racism
Pencil gray, color blind and crayons ready
Fantasies replace...

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“A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE”

“America— fill me in on your new vision
Wake me up from indecision
Help me trust your mighty wisdom
Show me how to...

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Life is nothing but a dust in time
You can let it pile up and cover everything you think you know
You can clean it off and...

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From the first conversation, I was immensely intrigued 
My plans slowly transitioned into our plans 
Smiles graced our faces 
Suddenly and swiftly that happiness was...

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Temptations allure influenced only by the physical.  Then further made curious by a simple comment of “you smell good” or an undeniable look of...

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re-post inspired by Nicola's contest

now
and then
better yet,
once in a while
it's now or never;
a will oer the wisp thing
here today,gone tomorrow
as with yesterday's newspaper
buried deep into...

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Mi have a serious problem with you young people that have no clue about our history or our culture. 

"Mi nuh wear tablecloth like Miss...

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