Best More Or Less Poems

I want more
More time to do more
More this and more that
Someone told me less is more
What do you think of that
If I had more money
I could buy more stuff
If I had more things
would it be enough
I'd eat more 
have an extra scoop
At the other end
there'd...

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hid insecurities within
  ambiguous humor &
   convoluted whimsies,
rules consistently changing
 in a game which required
hardly more than breath,
  nothing less than obscurity
     twisting a fallible fancy, 
    seizing day's intangibility...

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Ignorance is...

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I. Myth

A giant, I thought, fondly,
one that brought power first;
then, too, love, always love,
then, too, justice, wisdom;
you commanded the supplications
just as surely as your gods;
I thought it would reside in you
and preside over me forever.

II. More

Far more, I thought, fondly,
and gifts of bounty at hand;
then,...

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You can't build your future off of your past 
Because that's a structure that will never last 
It's like running full speed forward while looking back 
Tell me how far do you think you'll get like that 

How can you ever have a piece of...

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I was only twelve or thirteen when Dad bought
	The twenty acres alongside the highway
		On the east side of town in 1956,
That seemed so quiet then, unimportant even.

A piece of ground where horses had been kept for years, 
			Though I’d never noticed them there.
Rough wooden corral...

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Bricks from blood, bricks from the flood of Earth's mud,
bricks of clay, turf bricks, stone bricks, flesh bricks,
all shaped, treated and wrought in the furnace of Will,

texture of brick varies by material & method like animal behavior
projected to achieve certain results,
sometimes bricks are smooth or...

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Millions of lives and souls untold
And to account it all
Words, lines, films
Imagination trims
A sliver of soft, scarlet ribbon
Hollywood rounds
Quills deliver
Writers flare with passion so strong
Filling minds with fantasies, reveries, histories
Tragedies
We consume it all like freshly baked bread
We feed until we are engorged and fed
A viral,...

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I sit alone
watching the clock tick
how many minutes left?...

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Take less, give more
Complain less, thank more
Hate less, love more
Fake less, be real the more .

Break less, mend more
Sick less, fit more
Play less, read more
Fail less, achieve more.

Detain less, retain more
Stain less, honor more
Raze less, build more
Less less, more plus....

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More or less


I heard their talks on the path 
of more or less

both were shaking head at least
Honesty should be paste

road was dusty rim of the pants
Were blowing dust in addition

I closed nostrils both covering 
By two dirty palms

I was behind rolling with them
hearing their...

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4/29/16



Life and death
No and yes
More or less
The worst and best
Failure and success
Happiness and stress
Cleanliness and a mess
North, South, East and West
Wide awake or getting rest

Slow and fast
First and last
Small and vast
Fiction and facts
In the front and back
Falling apart or intact
The future and past
Treasures and trash
Used...

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Written by Gail DeBole
September 10, 2019

A couple had less – wanted more.
Were convinced that their lives were a snore.
Sold their house for a thrill.
Spent the money until
Lottery tickets covered the floor.

Spending months on their townhouse floor
Scratching tickets ‘til fingers were sore.
I’m sorry to say
Because of...

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My hope had been all but squeezed out..like an orange at 6 am.
                        The pressures of life the strongest forces on me.
...

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One of my favorite sayings,
     one you may have heard before
Is from a movie that's set in the Depression era,
     it's my personal verbal encore
It expresses my exasperated feeling
     of being powerless and...

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