Best Margo Poems

"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"

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If I were a Mermaid

If I were a Mermaid my name would be Margo and I’d live in the deepest blue sea 
 I’d swim...

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Unlike the others in my family,
I rarely let emotions take control.
A temper tantrum they'd not see from me.
The "cool" one I was called. It's still...

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(Although this was inspired by Olusequn Adelana's poetry challenge about betrayal, it is 
much too long to enter it; but I'm thankful for any poetic...

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Everybody got a Hollywood life story
to tell
More meat on the bone
give juicier bites 
to sell
Nobody ever turns in a tarnished silver screenplay
Those warts and mistakes
get...

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Fashioning the favourable foul,
Cutting the caustic cordial,
Rearing a rabid recall.

Pardon the potion
When blind and blundering
We fathom the favourable foul.

String along the slug
When casually and crazed
We...

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(conclusion to previous "poem" here)

One afternoon, our home phone rang and I began, as usual,
a heartfelt chat with Sheila. My memory is dim.
What we talked...

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So, as said you sir
the sun did still rise
albeit in a blur
among shaded skies.

Where clouds did gather
at a dunces brainstorm
for a dance and a blather
upon...

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There was an old man from Fargo,
With a wife whose name was Margo.
They were quite the pair
Neither had much hair
They traveled the world with no...

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On the first day I shall give you a book,
A great book.
In return, do not make this book, my book,
The last,
The greatest,
Or the only book.

Consume...

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In a loose constrict
In what I am doing here
It occurs to me
A commonality
Between a Cat Lassie
And a Potter sometimes in a Frock.
 
It must be...

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When I scream,
Do not listen.
When I judge,
Do not listen.

When I curse,
Do not listen.
When I ridicule, 
Do not listen.

When I am pitiful,
Do not listen.
When I am...

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Watch the rodents and regulars
Sifting through the spiritless so-so
Of their sake.
Rushing for a room
In the established B&B,
Avocados and aperitifs 
Swelling their bellies and slowing their...

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Today I did 
dare to deceive,
To deceive a yesterday 
I dare not face.
To deceive tomorrow
Dare me not.

Tomorrow did 
become today,
deceive I did not.
And when tomorrow...

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