Best Nine Times Poems

Not to be misled.
I have written about and with my husband in mind nine times for the world to see. I share my life in...

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The Great Lakes Engineering Works built a new boat
S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald, t'would soon be afloat
The people that owned her needed a name
President of the...

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its a thirst thats hard to quench you did it well, 
we all draw water from the well in the cellar, to go, inter-stellar 
in...

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My Mother-In-Law has passed 
    so she is no longer here.
Mixed feelings I have 
    but a little less...

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Trust is an issue that is dear to my heart,
   It can’t be given or taken from the start.

It must be earned, it...

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"You say you want a revolution" screamed the four,
John, Paul, George and Ringo beat down the door.
Melody and harmony and Brit sex appeal gone anti-war
Nine...

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MARVIN BENET BLACKMON, JR.

Yesterday, as you remember, was just another day.
You played like a boy could with no worries in place.
Today you sing the gospel...

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Glossy blooms floating all around you 
as the lure of the fairy realm surrounds
married mortals, to bring them to human life. 

Gazing at you with...

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A penny for your thoughts
Nine times you lied
I no longer give a dime...

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The priest who wants to rest
went fishing with his dear cousin Nora
A very nice lady, ginger and intrepid.
Today she adopted a Turkish Angora

The priest who...

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About Bill Posters and Bill Greenwell

Words not to use in poems

In 1993, I (Bill Greenwell) went on a three-day workshop with the poet Peter Sansom,...

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Here's some of my favourite pet peeves
Construction, potholes, and speed bumps
A bald person with a bad fitting hair piece
Or soup with unidentified lumps

Public washrooms that...

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I hate my life 
My souls are damaged it’s full of pure hell that I can’t take it back it’s like listening to that awful...

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Life fortunes share burdens
life dreams share pain
sometimes in life
we find ourselves at the bottom

I struggled with the dream
of making a better life
university study's struggles
some people...

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Nine times a fish tail is spun from thin yarn?

Swimming in tepid waters often relieves tensions but a moose with a migraine prefers an ice...

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