Best Long And The Short Of It Poems

Little Innocence was forged into the world 
A shrill Sound flickered around the expecting eyes
Laughter carved out of marble 
A statue thought to beat immortality...

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Ted Smith was a very tall guy
His girlfriend, a mere four feet high.
But love went astray,
Ted called it a day;
They just couldn't see eye to...

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My Handicap Beach


As I lay here and look out the window from our hotel at the absolutely amazing view..
It makes me wonder how something so...

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Dear Cancer, Hi. Its, David Schwent.
       Just dropping a line after the time we've spent
Together off and on and...

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Last evening I noticed another disconcerting Trump headline.
This felt and smelled more like a deadline
for disintegration
than a lifeline,
a bootstrap, if you will,
toward integrity of health...

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I live in Tucson, in a trailer court on the South side
All Mexican, except for me the old Gringo
I speak Spanish, can get along with...

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My Fido was booked into the vets
To remove his ‘love making’ assets
He was due for an op
Where his ‘bits’ got the chop
No puppies; I’d have...

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A Soul Is Gone Never To Return Again


Long dark shadow has now sadly been cast
 life ended far too soon, too fast!
A long walk ,...

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Some days and nights it feels too hard
not to turn back former times,
ages and stages,
agreements and arguments,
investments and divestments,
births and deaths,
to ask all the questions
I...

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Life is very fragile,
like an exquisite flower,
it blooms with glorious delight.

It’s fragrance spreads
to all those who are near.
It’s aroma drifts to all those in sight.

Life...

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TICK TOCK TICK TOCK

We can never catch up with the 
Clock and time,
No matter the length of this 
Solar rhyme,
The sun rises in the east...

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I have a friend in poetry name Christy,
The poems she writes make your eyes go misty.
She is gentle and kind,and knows what to say,
Her poems...

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death must be easy, cause life is hard
life is long but, deaths short

time is a number but, age is a plus
age equals experience, time subtracts...

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A Winston churchill’s declaration
to a tiny nation situated in the dark continent
due to its magnificence and sight capturing habitat
only matched by the electrifying effect of...

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"The Payload" 

The payload 
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly 
of a ruinous pregnant cloud 
bilious with buxom promise

it came crashing down 
like...

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