Best Make Do Poems

...Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And never ever lock it

But still so many struggled
To......

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...the injustice of
the powder blue box
standing proudly
on the corner of
fifty-seventh and fifth

A symbol of division
extending the partition
between wealth and
everyone else

back around t......

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...Ooey, gooey, give me choc-o-lot!
If I must, I'll take it liquid hot,
But "wicked" like they fix it in Madrid,
Thick as porridge, satin sunburnt sweet.
(Not like here: sugar,milk and cocoa......

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...Hi Dad, I miss you. I’m sure you’re very happy up there and all the prep you did while you were sick paid off in wondrous ways.

I’ve been thinking about our past and the good times you made sure w......

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...Aunt Sally Is 80

Well, my family calls me Aunt Sally;
I never was a missus.
I travelled with a disabled colonel,
As a nurse, until

My sister and I went blind, 
Had measles when we were just......

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...When grandpa was courtin' grandma, in those sweet days that are long past..
       There were no automobiles to drive them, transportation wasn't very fast.
They had to make do with what they had, ......

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...He who is born in the ruthless streets of a busy city
I am without a home
A family
Nor a companion
I am all alone

My homes differ from time to time
Abandoned houses, alleys anywhere the stree......

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...Put on word welfare by the poet gods
They've rationed my "Inspired Insanity"
No one could ever calculate the odds
This blatant act of inhumanity

No longer can I find words to describe
Blue eye......

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...The Baby Creep

Here in my Pampers. They took off my bib. Then they turned off the light, laid me here in my crib, yet I still see some light from the sun sunken low, but because I’m a toddler, to ......

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...Ever since my birth I've felt cold in this world
as a kid I was made to feel like i didn't have a voice, so now I put my soul in these words
for the new me to be born, I had to put the old me in di......

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...Losers

Do you waver. are you shy?
When they look at you
do their eyes imply:
"We'll have to make do"?

Do you doubt your reasons,
suspect your goals,
commit self-treason
defer to trolls?
......

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...only random densities
comprise the real puzzle
that is the recipe of chance
thoughts that come together 
like a mixed pile colony of ants
which retreats and which attracts
when it must to estab......

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...
Line of inquiry:
“on an as is where is basis we choose
descent of consciousness into the gross
then we rise again following heart’s muse
higher than where stood, bearing love’s cross”- unseekin......

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...What are the colors of Love
Its shapes and various sizes?
My God! To even venture a guess
I would need to know
all Love’s secrets
and voluminous disguises--

And yet, my love,
in the course o......

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...If I can make it off this chair,
 I’ll dance, my lovely Irish dance.
 Arms can stay down, how wonderful.
 Just two feet, so beautiful,
 In joint ecstasy and cadence.
 Whirling, moving, turbulent......

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