Best Last Chance Poems

I don't want to say goodbye

I want to say I tried

I leave you with these prayers

These ashes that I see, that haunt me in my...

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aye …

on such
divine evenings, thus,
are perfect odes not freely spun?
the Perseids, dancing their
jocund jigs -
capricious, evanescent stripes of
golden ire under a tapestry
of wonders …
watching rapt,...

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Amber streaks brush across the horizon
holding still a little part of me in a perfect memory
a crisp morning breeze caressing weathered lips
begging for one more...

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As fiery beacons 
Blaze
And cut through the
Night;
As restless sleep
Doth so tax and
Trouble me;
And I hang upon 
A promise:
That my love
For thou
I did most fervently 
Swear...

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He had waited for her, all his life.
All she desired was to stay in his arms,
to awaken each day in embrace.
All she needed was the...

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I wanted to...

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I saw you the other day...
and you looked so frail
It hit me hard to see you...
so thin and so pale
all my bitterness...just...

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Me....,
a shy ..,
 and 
bashful guy
always kept me.,
confined to last bench..
down my head,
huddled heart ,
blenched my breathes and 
arms always clenched..


Staring with a thief eye
to...

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On the streets of sin city, on the high roller's main drag,
Known as the Las Vegas Strip, a gentlemen phantom
Does stroll dressed in all black...

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I rarely dwell on places far away.
When young I went abroad - my one last chance
before youth ended, and I dreamed by day,
as well as...

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Footling Around

Shoes off
Clothes doff

Feet reek
Spray seek

Romance
Last chance...

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No, I won't come,
because you don't want me to come!
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Even though this is the last chance to see you, 
I won't come.
Even though every cell...

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The walls around my heart was built;
Warmly covered with a cosy quilt.
But the bitter cold is seeping through;
Whatever shall I do?
The walls have started to...

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This fast life of mine is dying
All you see is my lifeless body lying
Scarcely heaving my last breath
I knew it was coming, soon my own...

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I: LOST IN BRITAIN

Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop, 
Matching Tye and Droop

Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown, 
Westward Ho! and Throop.

Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash

North Piddle,...

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Environmental ramifications
Will far exceed current tabulations
And surely cause widespread consternation
For resentful future populations
 
No hopes will be pinned on legislation
Look to intergalactic migration
Flight from a...

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