Best Nibbled Poems

Down where the lavender wisteria blooms. 
For the first time this spring, and early in the morning  
I heard the whip-poor-will sing its intriguing...

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I was a learned meteorologist, studying azure atmosphere and vivid weather,
To give a prophetic daily forecast, like bees gliding remote locales of heather.

Often I had...

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I had an alien for two weeks before I realized how unusual she was.
I wish I could be a mouse in the corner, I had...

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Twenty fifth of December, three thousand and four
and already I'm down in the dumps
we're round at the neighbour's via tubes that save labour
propelled by some...

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I’ve got a secret to tell you, so gather round to hear
I had afternoon tea with the Queen in May this year

Her majesty was wearing...

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The Cyber Nymph
Loch David Crane
August 18, 1997

Lie back--expose your belly ring		
up unto the sky. . .
I just hope when I get down close
it won't put...

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BLUE


The rain startled the clouds and fell like 
a scare of possibilities. The day  toggled
from then to now like a withering widow

A flustered squirrel...

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Did you ever walk in sunshine, following a rain
Did you ever hold a loved one when you knew they were in pain
Did you ever smile...

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Please tell me there's a healing anodyne,
some kind of mythical enlightenment, 
a cure capable of extinguishing the flames 
of grief burning deep within my heart.
It's...

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The beauteous days of summer were here at last,
And the primetime of nature was coming so fast!

We sat on the porch, watching a lazy day...

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Can't recall the last time 
if there ever was a time 
~ 
where deep thoughts penetrated 
the lengths of my night 

pain always pulling 
throbbing...

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Yesterday
 music & lyrics by Joan May Donnelly Ellis 

VERSE 1:
 Yesterday came knocking at my door today
 Came so unexpected I was caught off...

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It should have come in April,
hadn't shown first week of May.
We waited through the winter,
eagerly waiting for the day
when the sun would shine with vigor,
the...

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Rum felt a chill which he couldn’t explain
Had mum left the freezer door open again?
He went to the kitchen and muttered, “Aha!”
The freezer door was...

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From my window, darkness was quickly descending.
Costumed creatures were walking about, pretending
to be goblins and ghosts, expecting me to be scared
and totally freaked out, for...

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