Best Neighborly Poems

One Autumn  afternoon, I was forced to stall.
Across the street on a corner lawn very small,
stood a tree most beautiful and noticed by all.
Each fall I enjoyed its breathtaking autumn display.
That is, until four years ago when I moved away.
Its memory arrested and captured...

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From a neighborly distance, the drama of a life's finality unfolded
A man named Mient. Once a well-known construction-scientist
When we became neighbors at Christmas he was a double amputee
Both legs taken by diabetes, then a man of his own ethnicity
Challenged him to a fight (Take it...

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Rosy sunup, and red cock robin's singing a song,
As pink and green butterflies go drifting along.
On a split rail fence, the rooster loudly crows,
Near apricot bushes, wafting scents of tea rose.

Wild geese honk pertly, to a warm maize morning,
As bees go by humming, to visit...

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Is it too late for us to go
Back in time to really show
How much love is kept inside
That we can no longer hide
This world is getting worse each minute
We all really need to give it
The peace and care it once knew
Before everyone just threw
 It...

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                 ‘Twuz uh hot
                      Spring
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Death and heaven
are not good neighbors.
They live too close together,
there are disputes,
mostly territorial,
heated confrontations arise.
If they lived further apart,
if they had mediators
to intervene, restrain,
adjudicate...
alas both,
could be somewhat intractable.
As for the day-to-day affairs
of the earthbound
both death and heaven
had largely lost interest
leaving all administrative duties,
to the angels...

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I gaze upon you as you sleep
I climb into the bed
I softly kiss your dreaming eyes
I gently lift your head
I place it overtop my heart
The heart that beats anew
No more to ever be apart 
Honey, I've come home to you 
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