Best Lately Poems

Recent events in my life have made me think about love
 and saying the words ‘I love you.’
My father was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer
Every time I see him and mum I say how much I love them both
  - one day soon I...

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A piano being played
A donkey chasing carrots
A suitor turned suitless
A wise man turned fool

I think you cannot decide
I think you refuse to decide
I think I thought I knew
I think I think too much

About only you
About only will you
About only won’t you
About only maybe

So weary of...

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Musing Lately

Let’s just say
with my husband now having heart troubles and my 
being old (& bedridden while waiting for my new prosthetic-leg) makes for on-going thinking, remembering, observing, reflecting, tentatively concluding, believing
how the ineffable ultimately rules…and one’s

language (for all its commanding need to be used...

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He's given you the breath of life
His Son made the ultimate sacrifice
by taking on all of your sins
so what have you done for Him?

He's awaken you to see a new day
given you instructions to guide your way
so I ask this question to you once again
lately,...

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Rudolph was a late comer to our 1823 story,
arriving 116 years later he grabbed all the glory.
His nose is red, so much for what's true.
He's just a rookie at bring Xmas gifts to you.


For Andrea's Christmas Clerihew Contest...

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Just to set things straight before I rant on.
I believe in God
Religion in almost any form disgusts me
They were given this earth and life in all its glory
What did they do in appreciation ?
They promptly invented a better place!
Heaven. Paradise. Angels, Virgins (why?)
And of course...

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Lately i've been thinking

Am i blue or am i pink

Am i living out this life in real time

Or merely following the highlights

Can i or could have indeed done
anything different

Made better choices gone right
instead of left

Or is it and was it all predestined

And i just a...

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It's impossible to hum with your nose plugged
Don't try it you'll give yourself a hernia
About two hundred babies are born every minute
Guess there's not much doing in suburbia

Dust under your bed is your own dead skin
Unbelievable but that's what they say
There are more nerve cells...

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I was looking over my stuff here, and itseems I've lost the talents I once knew here.
I write ancedotes for my column. I do journalism- always some deadline or project that I work well under the pressure of it all.

Writing is what I truly love!

There...

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When I found you in bed, you had just died.
     I wept; my grieving went mostly unsaid;
you clearly were gone—I was horrified!
     As you lay still in bed, utterly dead, 
the huge shock I felt could not...

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Lately I feel like your ATM Machine 
Instead of your daughter
Mom I know you really never was in my life
But now sense you been it just feels like you only want to use me 
And when you don't get your way
you are mad at me...

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"Eat poor that day, eat rich the rest of the year.  
  Rice for riches and peas for peace."
- Southern saying on eating a dish of Hoppin' John on New Year's Day.


The first of twelve grapes eaten
quickly at midnight was sour.
January will be...

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I used to love Elvis's songs and watched all of his fine concerts;
then the long-haired Beatles came from England
and he was almost swept away in his own land!
Suddenly, new artists names appeared on the Billboard Charts,
I couldn't stick to a specific artist:
I guess they all...

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Lately it seems to be getting darker sooner.
Lately it seems that the days drag on longer.
Lately it seems all is lost in confusion.
Lately it seems to be feeling a bit colder.
Lately it seems that nothing can go right.
Lately it seems that the rain won’t stop.
Lately...

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Lately God has been showing me close-ups
His cross right in front of me
His face, his thorns
His eyes
My heart

3/17/2021...

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