Best Next To Last Poems

Imagine a black velvet curtain
Pinholed to allow specked light
Now imagine that same curtain
Endlessly stretching out of sight
And there you have the immense
Velvet blackness of outer space
In which I hang and float seeing
That speckled velvet any way I face
I suppose I am that lucky man
To know...

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 Gymnasts and Poets

Poetry writing, a practiced passion,
Gymnastics, practiced poetry in motion,
Choose your form with the first line.
Move quickly into the mood,
directly spoken, intimated,
free verse or rhyme.
Mount the apparatus in graceful form,
forward mount or backward mount,
conventional, unorthodox.
Execute the routine flawlessly.
Express the idea to the core.
Stretch...

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Their lawn chairs in the sun
Outside a standard door--
They are considered nonproductive.
They passed their buying power
For the next to last measured lot.

The old man putters about the yard.
Turning earth for flowers that she wants
Beside the fence of hedge and vine;
And to a reel gone out...

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The dusty road is now black topped
Windows can be opened
to let in plenty of clean fresh air
though no house stands chosen

The fence still stands in some places
The pasture filled with trees
Our large garden spot overgrown
Once gathered in no breeze

Memories happy and unpleasant
Flood my memory banks
Thoughts...

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The art of loving isn’t hard to master
So many things seem filled with love.
To be lost in a love forever.

Love more everyday. Accept the disaster
Of a lost mind hours thinking of your love.
The art of loving isn’t hard to master.

Then practice loving farther, loving faster
People,...

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I had spent recent years in mourning, since I had lost someone very dear;
As when pallid moon is hidden by clouds, and bright stars will not appear.

My job as a professor consumed me, and I was happy for its distractions,
Like a pastel rainbow that's created,...

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How Pale the Poem!
(An Echo Poem) (1)

Are poems lovely as night's stars?
Aren't all more fireflies viewed in jars?
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Faint points of light man barely sees
now (gift of Science) galaxies,

are strung on necklaces like beads.
Star deaths the birth, spread all life's seeds.

So far away (more distant still)
define...

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The dusty road is now black topped
Windows can be opened
to let in plenty of clean fresh air
though no house stands chosen

The fence still stands in some places
The pasture filled with trees
Our large garden spot overgrown
Once gathered in no breeze

Memories happy and unpleasant
Flood my memory banks
Thoughts...

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look at me
water shoes on
beach chair buried in the sand
feeling like an overtly energetic six year old again
acting all shy as she grabs my hand as the water freezes our feet unexpectedly

remembering the loneliness
cable off
vhs on
same movie as the last four days
wondering how i got...

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Ordered by name, sights and tree trippers the climbing elephants sustain a marvellous wealth of injested missionary window ledges. Whilst eleven fleas are whipping cow excrement vast spectacular visions of a few beetles writhe in beds of silvery waters. It is neither a wishing spoon...

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Lee and Pastor Steve
They didn't want to leave
Over a stuff rabbit they were about to grieve
But finally the prize was received
Neither 1 of them seem bright
But they put up quiet a fight
It  was all about having fun on that bowling night
Randy was the true...

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(alternately titled ringleader Harris hooligan,
Hence, any resemblance 
     between characters port
rayed, and living persons 
     purely coincidental.)

Claim to fame creating
     an overnight sensational
     boom town explained
   ...

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His army was poised for the kill
 This victory would give him such a thrill
 But a shocking defeat did await
  As the Queen took his knight for checkmate!

 
 Victory goes to the player
  who makes the next to last mistake
 ...

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Recently, I ran in a race.
I’m glad to say I came in second place.
The other guy came in next to last.
I thought I was running just as fast
The truth is, there were only two competitors in the race.
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Imagine a black velvet curtain
Pinholed to allow specked light
Now imagine that same curtain
Endlessly stretching out of sight
And there you have the immense
Velvet blackness of outer space
In which I hang and float seeing
That speckled velvet any way I face

I suppose I am that lucky man
To know...

Continue reading...