Best Mitchell Poems

You think this is the way I wanted to live,
I’ve been through a lot and yes I have
Sinned,
But tell me are you perfect?
Tell me you...

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Who said:
"You don't realise what you've got, till it's gone."

In your absence I despise silence,
when you're gone loneliness visits,
but his friendship, I do not desire.

An...

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Hot Tea

Must be the aroma
The smell of my tea
Peach, Berry or Green
No caffeine for me
I drink to unwind
To sit and release
To calm myself down
To set...

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Relentlessly watching you leave
My heart starts pounding away
My eyes then begin to bleed
As my life slowly slips into decay

Blurry eyed I look to the ground
Tears...

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“We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.” Quote by; Edgar Mitchell.

I
dismiss
the belief
we are alone
in the universe
as...

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Bronco Don Johnson and Bally Watson...

Oh they speak of Bally Watson and the Dirran boys don't laugh...
Yet they tell in whispers how his ear was...

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P S IT’S POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 9


Many thanks to you selected poets; Of sharing your whispers...

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Submitted to the "Gone Fishin" contest
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Trollin’ the islands at Texoma,
It was April, 1964.
New rod and reel in hand,
I’d NEVER been fishing before.

A Garcia 2510T casting...

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As I grow order around me I see.
The next generation of our family.
I love them all without any doubt.
But there's one that was special that...

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 dodoitsu series (rhymed) 

Winter is taking the reins
speeding past days of autumn -
Jack Frost smears the windowpanes
forefingers and thumb.

You who have no house to...

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In this story the leaves are digressing,
In another, perhaps I shall too
With warm feelings and autumn shades tinting my view

We go along the path at...

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“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone...” from 
the song Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell



Age...

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Kitty, kitty in my chair,
Sitting there so debonair.

Black cat with shiny eyes,
To cross your path could be unwise.

Playful feline pounces fast,
Jump on people walking past.

Tabby...

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Roaming these lands often I cry these tears,
Trying to wash away the pain,along with all my fears.
Preparing myself for the worst 
With a feeling my...

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Dedicated to the Memory of
Pvt. Francis L. "Bubbie" Mitchell
KIA August 19, 1950

Bubbie was a brother
and a son who gave his life.
He joined to feed the...

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