Best Melinda Poems

She walks the streets of the French Quarter each night at three am.
They named her Melinda, in this, Her Immortal Life.
Melinda knows that you, like...

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I was born fifty years ago on April 10th 1964
Looking back through the years I began to explore

My mama said when it was time for...

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Life is not about seeking fame & fortune
 life is beautiful in so many other ways
 life is family 5 generations strong
 sharing memories &...

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Im sorry girl but I know I ****ed up, 
I know I can at times get so drunked up, 
But truth is girl we got...

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TGIF, TGIF, TGIF, TGIF;
Four letters and my best friends.
"You go next,"
Into the chasing room I went.
I came out after some moments, "What a lovely red...

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Death of a Vagrant


I am your mother, hold out your hand
Trace the lines of fate, tragic, pre-planned
You’re exhausted and empty, tired and cold
Fingers yellow with...

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Vanilla twilight
runs down my fingers
As I lick them
I think of you
And don't feel so alone

Come walk with me
Thru the cold November rain
Come stay with me
Because...

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proud tree straight
shepherding the refraction of light
into wistful eyes  

Melinda Harris
June 2009...

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Note: This is the 2nd half of one of my MANY long story works, and the 1st half can be accessed, of course, at "poems...

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The Gift
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I have no time Melinda argues
You need to take time for you, we tell her.
I am way to busy! She shrieks.
She is on her own...

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Looking through the memories
I've kept all this time,
Thinking of all the things we did
When you used to be mine.

Everything I could find
That reminded me of...

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The summer sun brought a new kind of love into our lives,
And it made us both shine - 
something neither one of us had done
In...

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There was a time
In the past
When I thought our love
Would surely last.

I knew I was ready
To settle down.
But you still wanted
To run around.

I waited and...

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This is the first day
Of the beginning of my life,
This is the start
Of a long, hard strife.

Getting over you will
Surely be hard to do.
But I...

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