Best Hooked Poems

I disappointed God by living a life where I should have died
Many times often times I wanted to commit suicide
Because of the shame that wouldn't subside
Meeting people I didn't know
My affections I couldn't let go 
I could only imagine that it's like being on drugs
I Only...

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Line of Inquiry
“I wasn’t sure what it was he said but it meant a lot to me.”

When there was still daylight lingering,
And the wind was upon the leaves,
And every leaf trembled at its touch,
On my balcony, I lazily sat.

My mind strayed like a vagabond,
Through the...

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*written for Verlena's Contest "EBONICS, Let's Do Some Slang"


SHAWTY,

Yir' boy fin' ta' told ya' bout some lessons in what the Man call Ebonics.
Cus' I gots' this!
Like the young fellow named Carmello on the New York Knicks, 
and girrrrrl I got mo' slang in my verse...

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That "FEELING" ...

The one that makes you believe
That everything in your life,
No matter how messed up or negative,
Is actually wonderful ...
The feeling that, for a few hours,
Chases every bad thing in your life away ...
The feeling that gives you
Endless energy to create,

Even though you know...

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FISHING SHADOWS © Haiku 

Two fins tread water
Fish swim the shadowed shelf ledge 
Breathing  from its gills!


Swimming Fish © Haiku 

Probing fish swim near 
 Fins redirect the swimming ‘school’
And a baited worm waits!



Safe Place © Haiku 

Deep broken ships lay
With some hiding fish
Far...

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Smoke a little weed, drink a little drink, there's nothing to it are so you think, but before you keep going you need to take a good look because underneath there lies a hook. So you do a little here, you do a little there...

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Nervous I sat,
waiting to be called.
I wasn’t sure what it was he said,
but it meant a lot to me.
Then I realized,
he was not talking to me.
Oh well,
I will be next....

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Nay, despite failing to make the grade,
     this bluesy well red, duff mute 
     average white band hit,
     hard knock school alumnus
jack of all trades master of none bumped along

   ...

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Flower beds of planted seeds
Among the harvests' reaping trees
Paper derived from milking fleas
And capital reigning overseas

A newborn's debt
His fate is sealed
With no regret
He becomes congealed
Trapped within the satire set
His contributions un-revealed

Lions bicker unrestrained
Crows feast upon the dead and dying
And plastic falls from empty shelves
The rain...

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I see the worry in your eyes,
That frown upon your brow,
The questions forming o your lips.

But there is no need to worry,
I'll never lose that twinkle in my eye,
The ability to try
And try again.

Because lady I'm hooked on life
And if you are hooked on life,
You...

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Escapism beside the water’s edge, as misty dawn awakes 
Great crested grebes, dressed to impress, elegantly pass me by ~ 
I took the bait – gullibly distracted from encroaching on their morning feast.


15.10.19
F F I series 29 sijo  - Brian Strand...

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I was never one to grovel
I was never one to beg
I was never one to demonstrate a sign of care
For my heart would always whisper, “Beware”
I was never one to play hard to get
Half of the time, I am oblivious
I was never one to contemplate
Trying...

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He took almost everything he brought to 
Or ever bought in nine years 
It's hard to remember what is whose.  

He may have forgotten the cactus in the den 
	with its big pulpy stalk,
Was the first gift he sent me,
The one that fell on...

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Villanelle: Break not chains Sartre hooked on ankles in disdain

Break not chains Sartre hooked on ankles in disdain
No Lawrence outsider sups with wooden spoon
Don’t bitter gruel course through low coolie-lines vein

One thing’s to espouse the cause of mighty swain
Another to champion masses without boon
Break not...

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Rollo Rigby was a lover of candy
he kept a big supply ever handy.
But he became so obese
he waddled like geese.
He quit candy but is hooked on brandy
(making his life fine and dandy)....

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