Best Mislaid Poems

We decided to turn Paradise into real estate.
Trouble was, we weren’t too sure where to find it,
Though experts had located it somewhere
Slightly west or east (left or right, looking north)
Of a point midway between the Euphrates and the Nile.
According to some, it moved sideways a...

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Helplessness seeks help in despondency
When resources slip out of porous hands
A tacit realization of innate inadequacy
Devours the dregs of impaired self-esteem.

The feeling sinks in the pool of pale psyche
Averse however to breathe the air of truth
Lies there unfelt in suspended animation	
A state assiduously unaccepted by...

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That poem I wrote
so long ago
has now gone missing
and I've hoped
so long now
that I will discover it.

Perhaps it went into a drawer
so long ago
and has been taken out in error;
has now gone missing,
though I've hoped
so long now
that it will show up.

Have we not mislaid our...

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