Best Numbered Poems

There bloomed a field of flowers wild
across a meadow bare
fallen seeds from ravens beak
there traveled free of fare

Heavens tears washed their bed
then covered a blanket spun of sun
giving life to such fragile flowers 
yet to life the winters come

Thin and sheer those sheets like glass
a...

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Slowly crawling along searching for life's sustenance 

     no sense of urgency

     no sense of future

Only living for today

 leaving tomorrow's where they lie

basking in the heat of the sun 

flapping your little effervescent wings

taking you where...

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dawn’s light on iced smoke
hell’s heaven or heaven’s hell
sunrise on ashes


John G. Lawless
11/19/2105...

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~ Inexorably,


   Our breaths tick off the minutes ...


   Cherish ... every ... one ~...

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Fog thick as thieves reduces sight
Misty drops drip from eaves
All's quiet in nature's realm
How my heart slowly bleeds

Time seems to be swiftly ending
Days are numbered 'pon wall
See the calendar's pages move_
Xes seem to voice sqall  ...

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Take it easy,take it hard 
Take it inch by inch,take it by the yard 
Get it,how you get it 
Remember how you got it 
And don't ever say you forgot it

Remember a word so misunderstood 
Superstitions got you knocking on wood 
Got you making the...

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The police were called in
two days after he didn't show
for dinner, and it took another
four days before they realized, 
that the pile of clothes
they had all been 
stepping over in the hallway
covered what was left of the
bloodless body.

It had been picked so clean
and so hygienically...

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My days have been numbered,
Youth had had its call.

Daredevilry was my doing,
As I zipped on the highway,
Yielding to none,
Speeding away, speeding away.

How I miss those starlit nights,
Always new company,
Venting Rock's rants,
Evenings were for make-out.

But time would march on,
Even youth will be spent,
Ending in age's despair,
No...

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Oh,
such seams can find decay,
In slumber deep,
cowhide chalices hold sway,
yet, this pinstriped warlord was
cut from dreams that tend to fray…

Hear: bible bound numbers flow
to land the back of heads
to stave the headlights glare,
we tiny solar flares as such,
so sensitive to touch are
placid, trance like true...

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in to the wilderness
          wandering
              mountain&plains
seeking
  directions
     to a promised
        ...

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Corkscrew through depths of
aquatic oblivion
whirls of confusion.
Numbered sheep blaat in cyclones
and wake my unconcious mind....

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Can't wait to see the rain of sunshine on my skin, 
Dripping heat and prosperity against my fleshy limb 

Words are like numbers, add them up until they make sense
Realize algebraic conversation often will make you dense

Weird

Like black hair and crimson lips for the heel...

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His days are numbered

A journey, fate is determined to take my Dad.
Old age, ( 94 ), stage four cancer makes me sad.

This came across the wires on Friday’s phone call.
My thoughts, bring to this reality, this may be all.

His last words, three thousand miles away,...

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And I'm cool with that.

Past point of needin
believin in
all things to all folks

now honin on ownin
perfect not neglect
gifts like egg yolks

puree and saute
scramble and maybe
some salsa today
(ok, probly)

glad i've made friends with some 
people not good what I am
but good what i'm not!

'cause we're all...

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The sun danced along joyfully
The moon clapped beautifully 
The breeze swung here and there
The stars came singing of hope,
The oceans, the rivers and the sand
Gathered in the field to watch nature.


When you go home do not eat
The manner shall fall this night
The activist shall rise...

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