Best Mcclure Poems

TED

A cheating farmer called Teddy McClure
Thought that his wife knew but he wasn't sure
Oh boy she knew alright
Cos when he took a bite
Of his sandwich it contained pig manure... 

AMY

A flat chested girl called Amy Sparrow 
Went for a boob job down in Palermo
Now cant...

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"Woman raises over $315K for homeless veteran . . ."  ABC News Nov '17

			
A homeless man with only twenty dollars to his name,
a sincere good Samaritan with no designs on fame,
observed a stranded woman near the interstate one night
and knew he had to be...

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traitors breath
                                         love betrayed
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Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here!
  
 Painfully in reach and yet no power is apt to attain thee. 
 
 What shall then quell passions pursuit? 

Oh heart that yearns for thee alas, such arduous love aroused. 

 Thou oh love...

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Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)

January 2, 1966: Dear Wignesan,
        
 [...9 lines suppressed] One thing I can I’m...

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music
                                        aching, longing
   ...

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miss vanessa cardui
                                painted lady; tainted picture
       ...

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Passed down through generations of my family history
is the story of a man buried, and of an ensuing mystery.
It's an age old story that my ancestors have always told
about the presence of a rose appearing in winter's cold.

The tale relates the meeting of a beautiful...

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Song of the waves beckon
                           the heart calleth, deep unto deep
        ...

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Two hearts surrender
                                      To what can no longer...

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White
                                            ...

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wild hearts beneath a lover's moon in naked truth and splendor of want 





             by Lori McClure  9/7/11
             for contest:...

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With unnatural restraint he quells his primal urge

Guarding something of himself; half man, half wolf

Languished captive, no hope of escape

The power of love grows stronger still

Helpless, against his own will.

Inflamed with savage desire

He catches a glimpse of her through the trees

With a wildly pulsating heart...

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I see thy broken heart bleed, wet upon thy face.

The sorrow of thy heart finds echo in mine.

Will love once more breathe its awakening breath?

I beg of thee, allow me to reclaim thy wounded heart,

 oh yield your love to me!

Can true love yet tempt...

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"A love so tender that it cannot be expressed 
                   in word and mak's the heart ache because of it.”   


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