Best Inconveniences Poems

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Goat heads, cockleburs, and cow pies. 
These are the things
we live with, in the country. 
Some you step on, 
some travel in your clothes, 
and some stink. 

Foxtails. 
That sounds so beautiful. 
They are terrible. 
They cling and bring pain
to the feet of dogs....

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I knew a cat once named Peaches. He was an all-black cat, but not one of those that could be described like a “shadow”, never be named Bagheera, never moved like a “black bolt” or even be described as “mysterious”. You’d never mistake him for...

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ONCE  AGAIN 

Fanciful images play gentle on the minds of children young and old.
Anticipation becomes a forever word that compels dreams and expectations 
to struggle with and sometimes overwhelm impatient patience. 

Exotic perfumed scents of fir hovers in the air exciting already taut senses....

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There are places I’ve grown from some far and wide
Past my heart and lingering within my mind
There are roads I may have crossed craggy and forgotten
Each step I take I ascertain more clearly
Through the willful nights and past stories 
I never looked back for more...

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Hey,come 3rd quarter of each calender year,  it is that time of the year again, 
This phenomenon is headlined in local dailies each day, again and again...

An enviromental situation, all kinds of experts in general do agree...
A regular man-made consequence from widespread clearing and...

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Overnight the calm was shattered asunder
as lightning, presaging rolls of thunder,	
reverberated across the darkened sky,
flashing warnings heavy rains were nigh.

Next Nature’s pyrotechnics, in awesome display,
turned the black sky of night, into day!
As the deluge began with a barrage of hail,
so we had concerns, for it...

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If there's one thing to remember as you travel life's highway

We're all made of the same stuff

Bones, skin, hair, and smashing good looks

Oops sorry, not everyone is blessed with good looks like this dude

Mummy and Daddy's genes combined

For an extraordinarily handsome specimen of male virility

Had...

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Since moving to our brand new home
There's things I haven't found
Like my pair of pearly white dentures
And Dufus our basset hound

Still haven't located my tightie whities
People are holding their noses
Till I find 'em gonna use lots of cologne
And carry a bouquet of roses

Now certain things...

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The formality of it stings.
“How are you?” 
Delivered with a self-conscious courtesy and
a poverty of emotion 
calculated to immediately keep 
me at arm’s length, 
fencing herself in.

There was a time when this
same greeting would
have been prefixed with a
velvet-soft “hey” and saturated with 
a low hum...

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Escapees: Accommodating Adversities

                    The subjective state of those who are well in
              ...

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FRAGILE HEARTS

F alse friends force me to feel fretfully furious, 
  R eason turns to regret as I remember the rejection.
    A m I antagonistic to anybody's approach?
      G uilt gives greater grief than gladness;
 ...

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As the day dusked yesterday,
The deflowered sun shone down 
with those eyes of a goldfish

'KATH’, got a light; 'EER’ lit a room;
And ‘AH’ illumined the night

No sound of a thing in your presence.
No bullet whirr, no horn blares 
Not even the tick tock of the...

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This itching
It’s like a drug withdrawal
From my body

And I fall
But I don’t do this intentionally
I do this because 
It’s what I do

No stepping of the ledge
Easily—
No willing sacrifice
Just me
Falling—
Because there is no where else 
To walk

This is me
This is who I am
This is what I...

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The mat outside my door says folks are welcome.
How many months will pass before that’s true?
Though some who make predictions have great knowledge,
they've nothing concrete to support their view.

This epidemic spreading through the nations
has changed our lives. Each day seems more surreal,
but my small inconveniences...

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I dress like her and listen to music I think she might like just so i don’t feel completely alone. 

She wasn’t even that kind. Or thoughtful. She was just hurt. And I like to think she would understand me. So I keep her in...

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