Best Lanyard Poems

Bruised but alive
     Thrumming heart ...
          Bloodied hand trembling
   ...

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bruised but alive
thrumming heart ...
bloodied hand trembling
I measure the moon with my thumb
as I watch the long boat drift away downriver -
YOU are on it...

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Like a pendulum, 
Those navajo beads swinging
Upon clothing rack
On which my robes are hanging,
With an aqua quartz dangling....

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The sunflower,
The symbol of hidden disabilities,
To show people that not all disabilities are visible.

The lanyard,
For people with hidden disabilities,
To show they need support.
 
Don’t ignore...

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PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not...

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Oh hearken the struggle, life's gossamer threads,
The delicate sway of hope ...
Framed by churning white of Lord Neptune's might,
Faith dangles a slender rope.

Wan maiden, her...

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Solving the Problem of Wedding Gifts

By Elton Camp

How I sympathize with the dilemma of a couple planning a wedding!   The stinginess of some...

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is when he of the Mount of Olives
whom you believe keeps the night watch
catches you by surprise with a wash over your spirit
like Baptism, when...

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-Quiet voices with low decibels are taken with offense. Preconceived notions, spoken words without thought, inserting smileys to disclaim. Invertebrate personas can be seen evaporating...

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languid doldrums, swaying lanyard, sails hanging loose

  dreary small drums reverberate, neurons dumbing down

  nerve ends fuse, sunlit shadows depict my numbing frown

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If You Would Be So Kind

It is almost as if I am wearing a long lanyard
Showing that I have set a new standard
As my performance...

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The bugles will sound in the distant courtyard
The proud soldier came home from the cause,
Many tears will be shed with noted regard.

A much-decorated warrior in...

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Bicycle tires spinning, carefree with no helmet —
The nineteen-sixties, the neighborhood is our space.

In Summertime, the playground’s a haven with friends —
Sunny smiles, weaving potholders...

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Three times the Master spoke
and three times the capstan broke.
Decks awash with briny spume,
the storm raged in the gathering gloom.
'Pull in that spar or else...

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I was inconveniently waiting 
For your interest to show
But that never came
Should have kept my hope low

You were conveniently using
My time to your standards
As if...

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