Best No Nonsense Poems

Bonny orchid, yesterday I longed to see your face 
It's radiance beamed out to me from some unspoken place
Outside on a cold, dark night
A million stars for candlelight 

Then all at once a shooting star line-danced across the sky
Spelling out your name in cosmic ink,...

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Those early 3am mornings when nobody is awake
and your footsteps echo on the cold floor while walking
to the fridge for the one diet soda and some fast food sitting
alone waiting to be consumed. 

Freedom. No nonsense. No clutter. Just an empty apartment full
of hope and...

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I read The Raven in its entirety,
I must admit it's kind of creepy.

If some big ol' bird with devil eyes
Came tap tap tapping to my sitting room,
I'd be leave leave leaving for the refuge 
Of my mother's house.

Mother's house is a house of safety,
And if...

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