Best Mutual Poems

I climb through dense brambles to hide.
Light flickers to find me,
I don’t feel safe here, and run on.

I’m in a dark house and move back and back through the rooms.
I hear him asking someone if they had seen me.
I curl up tighter into my hidden...

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indoor grill cooking
preparing all we desire
true mutual joy...

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Who's vision are you unfolding for whom?

Are you aware you carry a basket of bread
on your head
and still beg at every door? (Rumi)

You love healthy nature.
Like bread, Earth's nature feeds you
and, like yeast, absorbs you,
is that of which you are made,
and making,
and resolve to eternally...

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The young sapling bowed its head
.  .  .  Humble and shy
Full of his master’s gracious respect
.  .  .  Wishing to reply
You are my mentor and noble lord
.  .  .  Offering the reason why

The gnarled old tree...

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*Round One of an anticipated Twelve Round Bout*
With Special Guest Referee: Pyotr Kropotkin  
And Everyone's Favorite Ring Girl: Leo Tolstoi 
Postproduction by: Herbert Spencer and Rupert Murdoch
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I'm gonna toss you away 
To the crocs someday,
- And that's when I'll say: 
"Try surviving through this!"
"Without...

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A Mutual Enemy
By Reg Rhodes



My friend and I have a dangerous and mutual enemy. It is called alcohol, and 
it is killing her. 

Masquerading as her best friend, the alcohol is cunning.  Repeatedly, it sells 
her dreamy promises of escape from reality. 

The alcohol...

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It’s great to open up your house
To those who take delight
In all the ways you have to make them
Glad for the invite.

For sharing what you’ve worked so hard
To get and make your own
Is a cut above the pleasure you
Experience alone.

A visit, with a snack or...

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Mutual Benefit

Petting doggy
Canines enjoy it
What do we get from it?...

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Every night I am willing to please your wildest urge,
giving you kisses when silver moon beams emerge.
 
What will you give me to keep me from irresistible lust...
when these eyes of mine won't break our mutual trust?



Entered in Tammy Reams's contest,
" Bid On My Love-Couplet...

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Pasty delicacy
demands protection
since succulent
taunts beasts
roaming wilderness
gripped by hunger

until revelation
pivots the victim
aggressive arguing
defensive while
harnessing feral
hungers unwieldy

with megatons
securing leverage
against savage
hidden wandering
enemies disguised
behind amity....

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Reserve
holds love
at arm's length-
submission leans upon
love's strength

Inspired by Ephesians 3:21...

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I saw you last week by the river, right?

Oh, I couldn't say.

It was you alright. You were staring up at the sky. You were muttering about the clouds.

Yes, that was me. The clouds trouble me.

Oh, right. They say the end is near.

Sure, sure. Nothing but...

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MUTUAL

              Wow ! Vow to bow 
              with determined devotion 
        ...

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if the person
you love
isn't interested
in what 
makes you tick

you're living in delusion

go find
someone
who loves
the person
you are



AP: 2nd place 2021

Posted on March 31, 2021...

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THE BREAKFAST OF SCANDAL
Once upon a lofty testament
 The blue print of a rhapsodic love furls 
Among the two betrothed by a mutual affection. 
Their love echoes and here to stay and born.

Their twin love merges to one
 By the highly acclaimed folk, 
A great...

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