Best I Know You Are But What Am I Poems

-This buds for you!-
-It takes one to know one!-
-I know you are, but what am I?-

A second hand, on my stopwatch, going nowhere!
You are a joker, a smoker, a midnight stroker  
<-------How, about that, Steve Miller song

I'm not here to talk about the way...

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This pledge that l,Ntando, make today serves
as my guideline that I shall follow
happily, ungrudgingly and tirelessly
for the sake of our love life.
Indeed l am well aware of the fact that
the beauty of this pledge does not only lie
in word alone but in action as well.

For...

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I Am Why….

Why’s that nightingale sings all through the night? I am why.
How come rain makes a rainbow by kissing light? I am why.
I am why how the season changes on Earth, I confess.
A thousand mysteries for your vanished sight, I am why.
I am love...

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They say the One who loves me most
Is nothing but a hoax 
They say the God who gave me breath
Is just a wise old anecdote 

They say I lack accountability 
And self-esteem, and truth
But I know the wretched man I am
I need no further proof

Yet...

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"50 Words for Poe: Monkey Boy"




"VACANT" ...

You lie your head down on a soft pillow
in a grey room 
They say you have the Key
But it’s Hell, 
you’ve done the work
You’re not forgiven
You’re not free

Someone on the other side 
wants to lie down
there is no soft...

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"Oh, woe is me," so long, my words have slept
Where once they freely frolicked in the light
Dark shadows past and present danced in step
Now darkness shrouds them from this poet's sight

I see the countless colors of twilight
I sat in silence as the seasons changed
I've felt...

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What A Clot Am I
I sit there just waiting, waiting my turn to move
You’ll never know where I’ll strike; I am on a mission, myself to prove
No one knows where I’ll strike, but Doppler* tries to find me
Especially if I decide to have a trip...

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It hurts to be me
It hurts to be lonely
The emotions inside me
Are aching endlessly

I miss my friends dearly
And I wish that they could hear me
I call for them desperately
They don’t know that without them I am empty

I try to explain to people what I feel
But...

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  No one could know all of who I am
or even make good sense of what I have become.
I suppose love is finding someone willing to try......

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I feel the pressure of the tiny beads
My new found band pleases me so as I
Walk through the morning mist of the mountain
Where my family finds its morning way.

How did I come on these colorful bits,
I look down the valley’s winding road
And know in my...

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Here take this pill
Here take this pill
Here take this pill
and again and again
Until seven pills stayed
One doctor for this
One doctor for that
and one doctor who just puts it all in his computer
I have a sniffle, are you sure
I think I' sick, are you sure
My back...

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Although I am different, although I am bland. 
You still wanted me, you took my hand. 
I think of myself as an observer, I watch through the class, as my peers made friends, as time ticked past. 
Empty tables and assignments done alone. I was...

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As you suffocate the light, I'll fight with closed eyes.
As day turns to night, I consume the lies.
There's no guarantee, we will get out alive.
A chance for calamity, will not thrive.
Come get lost, inside my heart.
You know the cost, for now we're apart.
Our shattered dreams,...

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With speedy, gutsy ease
          her Irish father rolls up the front room rug
          Gaelic music lathers the air in merriment
Nelligen at 8, composed
    ...

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Life ...

'Tis a precious gift
As is the time we're given on this earth
Our world spins at a speed that's hard to keep up with
And it seems no matter how we allot those minutes each day

There's never quite enough of them to fit our needs
Or accomplish...

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