Best Leif Poems

Melancholy shadows drift,                               (Repost)
Swirling, swirling in the mist,
Draw a veil across my way,
To hide the...

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I was looking out the window of the plane.
We did it; yes!  We finally did it!
Passports in place, we hopped a plane.
Norway, here we come, all six of us.
It will be awesome; I just know it will.
Across the great abyss of the deep blue...

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born two days 
after ole Punxsutawney i.e. the Doctor Phil - 
of woodchucks Latin Name = Marmota Monax 
nest resembled Rastafarian hair weave, 
which creature rattled with ire and peeveishness, 

when rudely roused from his abode February fourth 
two thousand nine hundred and ninety nine...

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Shana Aubrey Harris born two days after ole Punxsutawney 
   i.e. the Doctor Phil - 
   of woodchucks Latin Name = Marmota Monax nest 
   resembled a Rastafarian hair weave
   which creature rattled with ire and peeve...

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"Oh The Potter's-Rage" two-tone Frogs--frilly, innocent just Like-them two
Faced; Chuckling little-Babies, chirping-Sparrows. "Finding-they'resome what--Arbor; though I can-see-now they still-can sing Just a bit-yes quite-a-good ways-a-whale about-yeah bellowing up-far-a-ways-out-there-stoked-up-just under-right out along-a-part them; like them there those-three-Mooring-up a little-bit bit more, 
grazing every-way each which way-the...

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He is Conrad but not Hilton.
She is Cher but not that Cher.
He is Leif but not Erikson.
She is Tina but not that Tina
He is Chevy but not Chase.
Come meet my new kindergarten students....

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the side of a ship
invites us to climb aboard-
we want to believe


penned by my friend Leif Thorstead as a gift...

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Oh The Potter's-Rage, two-tone frogs frilly, innocent just-Like; them two-
Faced little-Chuckling Babies, chirping-Sparrows. "Finding-out" they're some-what 
Arbor though I can-see-now they still-can sing Just a bit-yes quite-a-good ways-a-
whale about-yeah bellowing up-far-a-ways-out-there-stoked-up-just under-right out 
along-a-part them; like them there those-three-Mooring-up a little-bit bit more, 
grazing every-way...

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History, Columbus and Friends 

To be on the right side of History you must make friends
History is the study of the past
Sponsored by political winds and spins
Lincoln sells cars on TV and kills vampires in movies
George Washington makes dollar bills
“Cesar” was a salad
Kansas is Central...

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Bewail paltry ministry that gentle breeze ch aunt.
Impatience and dream hack milestone and whisper, a hailstorm of ornery ilk hum.
Go by the gentle breeze and bring hope.
Leif Leif kink lackey of milky joy.

Gently, gently, gentle breeze,
flag the rags on the meadow where you sleep
and declaim...

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S omethign
so OHspomething
wa
somethign has gone wrong.
wrong horribly
wrong. er
ong.
yet l
leif li
will
lf
will relentlessy
go 
on...

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Four score, nothing there  

Ukraine lost the Roman hosted sporting affair  

Back in London Boris raises a Saturday pint  

Proclaiming success on this summer’s night  

Soon the red, white boys will be coming home  

Right now, Wembly is dark and...

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Edvard Munch
 An Ekphrasis Stylized Poem of Jealousy 

Oh, ancient Oden!  
I summon your primitive hand.
Take this oiled brush I hold,
and order my strokes with your command.

With deep red, spilling like blood across the land,
she appears as the object of my affection,
nude and reaching...

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There, within the castle-keep
Where fiery embers sleep
Comes the fairy wilds now calling thee
Where yea shall sleep no more

He rides on the white steed
In armor bright and clean
Mighty is the man among the knights
Enchanted Tamlin

They will turn him in the night
Into a fig or frog, into...

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OCTAVE:
LORD, as morn yields to noon (or dawn) my SONnet will please, tease, release:
I greet thee, having access to Your throne by Jesus
And His sacrifice on Calvary: We pray against the Virus
With a sunshiny name, an aura of a name, "a garland" ...
Corona Virus, COVID-19,...

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