Best Life Experience Poems

A subtle numbness overtakes my senses. I feel a slight heavy weight fall upon me in the gentlest of ways, almost like you’re wearing a fur coat in a meat locker and someone’s pissing on you while your spine is wrapped in cotton, or cold...

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"The Life Experience"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

Decisions, choices
Influential voices
Separation between wins and loses
And Life is all it costs, it's
What we do and how it's done
Where we're going and beyond
Sarcasm without the pun
Fueled by self-inflicted fun
The sun and the moon
The bride and the groom
The fork and...

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Dreaming shows you many hidden things in your mind; it opens you to alternative thinking…
What are friends? Are friends someone you can trust? What is trust? What is trusting? I've always asked myself this, but never really answered it... Friends are always something I have...

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Eyeshutters catch remnance of being
Once were, now is
injustifiably different; *****
How man strays off beaten paths.

Cold, stale air in which i breathe
wrapped up in a pretzel-like jacket
amongst other kindred spirits
Unbenounced to me where we're going.

Names leave and faces rendered obscure
Hints that my senses are dissipating
I watch...

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I used to fear that some would find me strange.
Yet I'm seeing life harsher than I thought.
Thus I shape a wandering mountain range.
I used to fear that some would find me strange
My hunch tells me it's time to make a change.
It's simpler than what I...

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THOSE FIVE IMPERATIVE WORDS  
That, my friend is the genuine article right there
All sparkly, shiny, and crystal clear
It looks pretty with the rubies on each side
But man, I’ve got plenty of time to decide

What’s there to decide man, you needn’t do any difficult tasks
I...

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Time never wasted
                              Envious of you sitting in this basement
      ...

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A guy ran into my Vegas bar, seemed to be in quite a panic.
When he ordered twelve doubles of my finest whiskey,
I thought, “Who orders twelve doubles? This guy must be manic."

Now, in Las Vegas, “doubles of your very best” are never cheap,
Twenty bucks and...

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I started life as a grain of sand,
But knew I’d find a way to expand,
And always being a bit of a rebel,
I joined with others and became a pebble,
And as I grew and then took stock,
I realised that I had become a rock,
And as I...

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The alchemy of truth
may be from a particular perspective

or colored by youth
and sprinkled with objective

For your truth can hold your own view
your lens through which you see the world

And naivety can lead astray 
and reality fall subject to that doom

And you may not have the...

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HOW CAN I PRETEND ? 
PART 4

Innocence, zest, curiosity 
remain intact protected   
crimson hymns I earned
when Divinity composed 
a skin of cheetah brown 
amused at a white chin 
where my masculine’s 
fuzzy beard ought to be
HE raucously laughed 
aloud at my horrored 
‘Don’t...

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We have toiled, 
we have laboured. 
we have launched into the deep,
we wearied ourselves in tempest. 
endangering our lives for filths, 
Our summer too short for relief, 
and the winter too long with pains, 
we bore the shame, the jeers and mockery. 
we met with...

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("To the Bone", 2018, original encaustic)

Down to the Bone

Over and over 
Up and down 
Back-and-forth 
Around and ‘round 
It’s always learning the same lesson.
 
Learning it again 
And again.

Like a species, 
An individual 
With amnesia 
We cycle around 
Experiencing
To rediscover 
Yet again
What we’ve always known...

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HOW CAN I PRETEND ? 
PART 3

Pretence lies coffined 
as Spring makes a call
early chincherinchees 
kissing late winter’s wind
knowing empty cupboards 
will be filled once more 
perceptions of another
timeline where artful
wiles and emotionless 
inserts receive no nods 
of approval 

My Love stands oaked 
in cerebral...

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~Have I~

Have I done the best of all that I could
Have I lived my life the way I should
Have I said the things I couldn’t say
Have I made the best of each new day

Have I been strong when I felt fear
Have I heard things that...

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