Best Observer Poems

I see you from a distance
Silently you cry as your heart is crushed by indiscretion
You scream out from within to be free
Loyalty and desire hold you captive
Fear engulfs and strangles you
He loves you or does he?
Are his words enough without the emotions?
You seek comfort and...

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The moon watched over the park with a star by its side
A tint of gold reflected from trees where things can hide
The park was empty and quiet, with frozen ground, no snow
Just a place to discover things, a welcoming place to go
The leaves from fall...

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Kite-Surfer prepares for his thrilling ride
With double-checked gear, wades into the tide

Observer sits noticing all that’s around
And sees the direction where’s Kite-Surfer’s bound

Like an outgoing message that’s waiting to send
Kite-Surfer is patient, then catches the wind

Observer sits calmly beachside near the trees
From safe distance he...

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A serpent underneath blue sky,
in shade of man, in twinkle of an eye,
above brick wall, in the structure, at the floor,
venom of white dove; contaminated food, undrinkable water,
misguided youth, pregnant daughter, unfaithful father and hateful son,
mothers do pray while we walk through Babylon;
on teli and...

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The Observer
So maybe the stars aren't as bright and my eyes don't shine like the past. Enticing are the stars, infinite in the sky. They are the closest thing to magic within sight. We may never reach them but that alone grabs our attention. Then...

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STARGAZER STAR COUNTER, WHAT DO YOU SEE?

     MILLIONS OF STARS AND THE COUNTING IS FREE.

STARGAZER I ASK,HOW FAR IS NEAR?

     AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT, IT'LL TAKE YOU NINE YEARS.

I KNOW LIGHT IS FAST, BUT WHERE DOES...

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A YOUNG AND CHARMING HANDSOME FELLA 
WENT IN SEARCH OF CINDERELLA.
QUITE THE ADVENTURE TO SAY THE LEAST. 
ALONG THE WAY HE WOULD MEET A BEAST.
SHE WAS AN UNEARTHLY CREATURE FROM AFAR, 
WHO POSSESSED A HEART INSIDE A JAR. 
THIS CREATURA WAS AN ENCHANTED BEAST, 
WHO...

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Enough about hearts and frivolousness.
I have sealed many pages with my mark
Of flowers and red and the bluest of roses.
Trees of green and blue skies
I have developed an intimacy with these words.

No surprise, I am an intimate observer
Sincerely and ever caring 
I wear no disguise...

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Standing by a tree, rifle on hip
Leaves red and yellow like a Viking ship
Watching from the shadows, a poachers eye
Silently waiting as phantoms glide by
A noise, just a bird on the forest floor
Preening and dancing like Madame Pompadour.

Footsteps follow a distant call
Crouching like a woodlouse...

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He's an outsider to the pain I feel
Oblivious and happy-
When with her
Like a thief in the night I want to steal
His heart
But it was never mine from the start
I watch
This time the outsider
An invisible particle of air
All the fire
Extinguished out of me
Pathetic and lonely
My feelings...

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Fulfillment is his game;
he cannot name another choice
that would enhance a life so lost
in love of all that he surveys.

The beloved too will fail, for he
must lose the trail, in his indifferent quest
to understand--

I for one, would welcome it,
for coming to the close of fantasy...

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Rich humus wafts through nostrils to my mind,
Musty fragrance of decay and rebirth.
The Milky Way in front, the grass behind
Strapped to the front of our rocketship Earth.

The tent flap gently rustles in the breeze.
Damp soil beneath starts to embrace my spine.
A chain of ants crawl...

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Here are some people I'd like you to meet,
Various characters who live down our street.
First there's old Alf, the gardener supreme
I've never seen a lawn so lush or so green.

Then there is Elsie, how she likes to chatter
Any subject you like, she'll have a natter.
There's...

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If there was a god
That looked down and saw everything,
If there happened to be some anonymous observer, 
Somewhere a distant voyeur of human life,
Then maybe science wouldn't be so scary 
And the answer ‘no’
So right....

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had a hankering for praline pecans &
so, as one with a hankering for praline
pecans will do, when the appropriate
funds are available & one has the time
to go praline pecan search, 
off to the grocery he went.

the first store didn’t have exactly what
he wanted & so...

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