Best New To You Poems

The images plucked from a full soft drive like over blown berries
threatening to fall……blasted to the humus. Swing chains creak.
The high-backed, heart carved, chalk white, front porch swing sways;
to the kicking of your feet. Beside me, you sit in spankin’ new school clothes singing.

Together wrapped...

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Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2

This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s famous novel ‘The Glass Bead Game’) but it has been a favorite of mine...

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No one lied, get it out of your mind
Don't start badmouthing again, putting your foot in your mouth
knocking your teeth around 
You saw the warning signs, you are not a rodeo clown
This isn't new to you
this happened before, it was bound to happen
Without struggle, there...

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There, There! Good Children!
I say to the furniture gracing my space, 
semi-circling the weary gray eye 
of the television, as if it were the center
of the world.  It's tired, but YOU are 
to rest upon. Support for  the watchers 
in my diminishing world:...

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Hello, guys! am I new to you?
Don't be scared I am  just a virus
I came to the human cycle recently 
As some Chinese eat wild animal 

Come on! Let's tell you something 
About my attitude toward people 
Even some people have been killed 
Actually,...

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A paradise of nature eloquent flowers bouquets sculpted by a spiral maze:
that has yellow, orange, pink, red roses with a rich redolent scent phase

Lilies, lilacs tulips, daisies, daffodils, buttercups of bountiful blooms; 
all have an enchanted scents of fragrant perfume to sniff then choose

Love interludes...

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I smile as I remember the holidays past
The table full
The smells are wonderful
You are in total control
Like a little general you command your kitchen
And all who dare to enter
I love you mom

I smile now for another Thanksgiving
The table full
The smells are wonderful
But the general fights...

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You may have a glamorous life
With everything in the world
Fake friends all around you,
And even have the perfect girl.

You may have a top class job
And drive a flashy car
Own a mansion on the beach
With a garden stretched out far

You may dine at expensive restaurants
Feeling like...

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It was amazing
When we first met
Sort of like Romeo and Juliet 
But I was quickly
Able to see
What she had in store

First the pictures in my man cave
We're taken down 
And then thrown away
But the last draw
Was when she took
My deer off the wall

I told her...
Much...

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Oh, blessed Creator of Heaven and Earth,
your breath of life gave all things birth.
Our imperfections we confess,
for Christ like love is our ultimate best. 
We offer you praise for soil and sky,
creatures of sea and birds that fly.
Our black souls beat in ancient rhythms that...

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It’s nothing new to you though
to roll down your car window
and fling your bag of trash into the street

If the music's not your style
you just toss it in the pile
don't bother asking others what they think

If it’s not a show you care to see
you’re suddenly...

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Sometimes it's difficult to love, in a world filled with so much hate,
But it starts from within, how can you say you care, with double padlocks and chains on your gate,

The locks are to keep evil out, at least that's the truth, you tell yourself,
If...

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Death, Where Are You

I bet you've met the most amazing people,
popes and queens beneath cathedral steeples,
and dust-foot maids in the hills among the petalled sepals.
                    Death,...

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Outside the box 
 The ever open mind 
 What it seeks? Is
Ideas of a different kind 
Is there anything that’s new? 
Or is it only new to you 
What took so long?
For me to explore
The ever open door
have I in fact
only opened  a...

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Hey girl
How you doing today
Nights like this I wish I knew
What to say
Hey girl
How you doing today
Just another night
I’m looking at your face
Our eyes would meet
But it’s only in my dreams
Cause your looking over me
And I’m stuck here saying
Hey girl
How you doing today

Being broken
I know...

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