Best Matt Poems

Because                     for Matt Caliri’s Contest...

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Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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In Search of 50 Names(couplets alphabetized for ease of footnoting the names)

A) A tom cat sits in heather nearby a willow tree.
Rose and jasmine fill...

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“And the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not; for it was founded...

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My favourite chair
Said to me one night
Hey! Highlander
What you going to write
 
Is it going to be a fantasy
A Haiku or a Senyru
What ever comes...

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YOU are the Heaven of my Soul
The Life of my beating Heart
Every Thought and Dream in my Mind
My Strength, to continue on
  My ALWAYS...

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With imperfection, introspection 
And a measure of over arching dejection 
Comes insight
So I've noted a truth or two
Do get comfortable and I'll share a few

Say...

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A valentine for poets we have known
I now compose – a valentine for those
whose thoughts (when they upon the earth were sown)
live on with beauty...

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She comes to bat with the score tied three to three.
Staring out at the pitcher,
she goes into her stance, 
just hoping the ball will come...

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Candies, Christmas songs and presents

Held me one time in their thrall.

Reunions, however, had true Christmas essence

In that childhood I recall

So fondly, but nowadays it seems

Too...

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I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and...

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My grandfather on my father’s side, was a pecker-toothed sidle who raped his 
daughter when she was just ten. He threw down vodka from an...

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Behind the rough and gruff facade,
amongst the sternness and the pride.
Along with calloused hands and the scars
A little boy still resides.

in spite of responsibilities,
the hard...

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Dr. Seuss wrote of a strong Lorax
Who tried to save Earth’s Truffula Trees
From a foolish “Onceler’s” hacking ax

The Lorax warnings disregarded
Onceler used up the trees’...

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I’m really not a jealous person. I am happy for those who are fortunate in life.  If I see a lady who has a...

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