Best Line Up Poems

Line up the meat
According to size and flavor
Make the mistletoe appear early
Beyond its seasonal fracas
The plying and plowing is
Executed with such precision
To avoid the blame of ordinary
To be buried along with
Missionary and natural means
The lattice design that
Shapes futures
Meant for conventionality
None of which sounds
Or tastes appealing
At...

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At the shopping mall
There are bright colours everywhere
Santa's seat in view
Ready for the long line up
For sitting on Santa's lap...

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“LOVERS LINE UP”



during those nights
they knew what it was
to be alone,
to hold onto their 
thoughts,
to weep and wrap their
isolation inside their
tears.

during those nights
they made peace with
the loneliness that 
made their thoughts
cry.

now these nights,
isolation is a memory,
they are each other’s
thoughts and the tears
fall for the heart...

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On the doorstep with the mail
A letter from the Police
Looking for a male
Who disturbed the peace

My description was a match
I did start to panic
I’m not their prize catch
It’s just a line up and that’s it

I went to the station
To join the line
It was a weird...

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waiting until someone has gone too far
to say the limit was there
repeats toxic patterns



AP:  Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on February 4, 2018...

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What do cows do?
Munch munch grass and moo,
Watch horizons long and blue,
Listen in to insects humming,
Splat fat cow-pats on the dirt.

Cows walk to the dairy in a crowd:
To and fro, to and fro,
Their udders swinging as they go.

They line up for the metal calves
With sucking...

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