Best Mostly Poems

Isn’t it ironic?
That the plague called the bubonic
Killed the man but not the rat
And did not even kill the cat
That caught and killed the guilty rat

Isn’t it ironic?
That in this age of the electronic
Ebola is running unabated
It’s deathly thirst left quite unslated
Just like the plague...

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Ode to the Senior Golfer

Pitch and putt I never worried about
‘cause all my drives were long and stout
Now off the tee it doesn’t fly so far
And all I can do is hope for par
On my card 3’s are 4’s and 4’s became 5
Oh how I...

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There was the sudden stench of silence that fell upon the street.
The congregate of people looking on in disbelief.
Trying to gain a view in a manner yet discrete,
observing the excavation of his apartment in feigned grief.
The noises that they heard in the nights, but collectively...

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there is no mother nature ~ mere reality with her rolling pin

spreading an infinite universe ~ with no instructions on a tin

bring humanity into the mix ~ a strange ingredient comes in

the spit of droll intelligence ~ from our salivating menippean 

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How did I get 
to be this old?

By listening mostly!

A skill and an art
That sets one apart

Just listening...mostly

It demands ears op’ed wide
And opinions kept inside

Not speaking...Just listening mostly

Letting another have the stage
To vent joy or release rage

This is friendship...listening mostly

One can speak volumes by not...

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The world's made up of mostly good people
Except for the lunatic fringe
Too bad we can't just get rid of these jokers
These yahoos have come unhinged!

Send 'em away to some distance galaxy
Far, far away from us guys
Let 'em infect some other civilization
We've had it right up...

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Mostly bluebells
in dells and fells
that springtime tells
with her soft bells.

In my ears' shells
you say "Bluebells..."
and my tear wells
by fells and dells.


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3/8/2018

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Today a man accused me of lying
While calling me soulless white devil
destroyer of the earth
Revealing all he ever said a to me
over years was deceit well o be fair
The burden of tolerance toward all white men
must be hard to carry
Descended of those who had Malcolm...

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Sometimes I pray and don't get what I think I need
But always had food, for I had three mouths to feed
God looks out for me, this I know. My love will grow
Stronger as I live ever longer, and wondering how so
God works in His mysterious...

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(Mary Custis was the wife of Robert E. Lee.
Union forces captured her ante-bellum
mansion in what is now Arlington Cemetery
and defiled it, because it was the only thing
of Lee's they could get their hands on.)


Suppose you kill Gaddafi and Hussein,
or sad old Nazis, huddled in the...

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You are living outside
Your mind.
Are you qualified
Mr. Hyde
To deal with man kind?
You are living outside
By the beautiful seaside
Unconfined.
Are you qualified
Not to do homicide
On human kind?
You are living outside
Who would be satisfied
When your so unkind.
Are you qualified
To provide
An account of your daily grind?
You are living outside
Are...

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No matter existence (mine) lamely, mostly, and nearly spent...

I barely experienced
getting clothed (think fashion wise
as metaphorically swiftly tailored
harried styled mortal)
approaching naked truth
regarding life, liberty

and pursuit of happiness..,
nonetheless yours truly forever gropes
in the darkness of ignorance analogous
to imagined (envisioned) asymptote
demarcating experiential enlightenment
heading toward verity of righteousness,
yet...

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Only Mostly Dead
by Rick Rucker

As I lay on the Gurney, I think of what the Doctor said,
"You are very lucky, you are only mostly dead!"

I asked if that meant I had a chance,
"Depends on how soon they send the ambulance!"

That they came, I can report,
Also,...

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~People are unremarkable but you you are mostly remarkable~

3/8/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Deeper than I've ever cut 
I'm tired of these nights alone 
But I don't know what 
To do to make it on my own 

I've tried and tried 
To find a way through 
Then I cried and cried 
Cuz I always miss you 

Chorus: 
When...

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