Best Magnifying Glass Poems

It’s not enough to have a Dragon plus his penguins and pigeons, too?
Darn it! I had a limit, until a cute Cuddling Cricket found my shoe.
He was just a little baby, who saw the pigeons and decided to hide.
Now, he won’t let go of my...

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              ~ loneliness - the colors of Christmas lose their luster ~ 
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The Word of God begins my day, 
It is the light throughout my way,

When darkness envelopes my night, 
The Word of God shines forth its light, 

It is a lamp unto my feet, 
The lighthouse to which I retreat,

The guiding light, I hold it high,
It...

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i am a possibility
of many possibilities
i am a ratio
an indecisive factor
in the rest of what this dimension has to offer

the world is a top
i spin it and predict the probability
that the end will equal the means
or perhaps surpass it
even if i never surpass this muck-up
these...

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Time can be counted in milliseconds
Pay attention
To the cracks in the pavement
Where the sand grains no longer held their cement

The proverbial elephant
Resides in a matchbox of contented intent

And measure by micrometers
The distance of hairs
As a tiny mote floats into a sea of stars
Still wondering where...

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bird songs drift through the tall Autumn trees and
photographs are floating in my mind and conversations echo 
in the deep, crumbling amber gold leaves falling 
an old man with a walker gets into a car with gnarled hands that I love
blanket on lap  magnifying...

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100 miles
It's pretty far 
Feels like a loss
Not far by car
But Too far for a rock to toss

The deadening silence of your voice
Slices to my core, it's a salty wound
Made worse by your choice

I see your smile everywhere I roam
Its sincerity demolishes my pain
It convinces...

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I am sitting in hovel writing nothing 
For the hovel has taken every last drop of energy.
Hey, wait. Is that an ant?
An ant in the winter?
What is she doing?
I get out my magnifying glass of course. 
She is wearing a backpack full of something that...

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I love playing table tennis, Glen and I arranged a match,
We decided to get some balls, so he ordered a batch.

I open a box and in it, one ball was a funny smoky blue, 
All the others were white, oh; I forgot to tell you,...

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The Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of tents.
It is a story inspired by hunger and embellished by dark nights of terror.
It...

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Oh lovely, little hedgehog, playing in the grass,
I love your prickly, stylish coat, it brings you so much sass.
I see that little nose of yours, twitching to no end,
sniffing out the next hot thing, the next must-have fashion trend.
But I am on to you little...

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The client was desperate.   
The coppers gave up on the chase.  
They might have caught him, but, 
The killer didn’t leave a trace.

Flipping coins in the shadows.  
Slouch hat, overcoat and a gun.
Photographing through windows   
Some clown’s extra-marital fun.

Who...

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Madame Sosostris, the leaves are running away
With the springtime wind, into the University café,
Mr. Scogan, what prophesy of apocalypse do you bring?
The grass smells oh! so fresh and green
Budded with cupidity and sin,
In shadow behind the lamp,
Tent pitched beneath a Portabello mushroom,
On your ear lobe...

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You've got the kind of cleavage that I really like
A place where a man can really park his bike
With two lovely legs, tanned to perfection by the sun
Now I'm going cross eyed watching the wiggle of your bum.
 
Why don’t men think with their brains,...

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A is for an album to hold my stamp hoard,
B is for back of book where my “specials” are stored.

C is for the cancellation that causes such strife,
D is for definitives with their unlimited life.

E is for excitement, the thrill of the find,
F is for...

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