Best Metastasized Poems

O-Outward she seemed fine and healthy
R-Really it was a dagger in the heart to hear!
P-Penetrated through the ovaries was a cancer cyst.
H-Happened that it was...

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I just made it in time for Mary's funeral, it had been raining
heavily all day but the sun came out through the clouds.
And as I...

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November 13th 2017 
Happy 83rd birthday to thy cremated mom

Harriet Harris fought tooth and nail
Mother succumbed 
to terminal illness without fail 
Ovarian/ Uterine Cancer to...

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Suddenly without bedmate and counterpart 
   one month shy of fifty years, no deity could answer
razor sharp emotional pain cut to the quick...

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We can never forget 9/11
We will forever remember such a date
A date that will live in infamy
A date that has everything in it:
Sadness, fire, death,...

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Oh, Babe
Pitched for the price of infamy’s name 
Springtime sold
For the tempest of a bambino’s bane
Oh, Babe
Stadium-made gregarious grin
Pinstripe promises
Playing for shoddy orphaned kids
Oh, Babe
Squeezing...

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An Echo Poem

Original: If I Kissed It - Poem by Brian Johnston

If I kissed it, would that make it better? 
Are you needing much more...

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Crucible

Peer into an unpredictable universe 
Of ambivalent depths
A calyx cul-de-sac tipped up
Into a crucible of the unexplainable
Where curiosity strides into pure moments of mystique
 Fields...

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toward thee spunky gal, 
     whose impregnation and debut appearance 
     way to brief a tale for...

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Is just Love an oasis in ‘desert of self’
Where my talents seem fossilized bones with no life?
I bless remnants of forebears (expired, long past prime)
That...

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November 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky

My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz...

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Mesmerized by phantasmagorical flames 
flaunting cerise
and crimson-colored
tongues of fire,
I marvel at the beauty of the beast. 

I see the chard scarlet underbelly
of the fire cloaked
in...

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The last students you've loved slip out of the room
  Their chairs ghostly, enshrouded, urns overturned

Your eyes survey the wreckage, the whisper-less ruins
 ...

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My heart waits for you so that our dreams can come true .
My heart aches for you, so remove the guard so that I can...

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When Phyllis canned her peaches
just two months before she died,
She did it for her family,
she'd done it since a bride.

She canned the summer sun for...

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