Best Occasional Poems

An occasional chance encounter
With a stranger on the street 
Can change life like a tidal wave
And lift us off our feet.
The mystery of wakefulness
Like the dance of rolling dice,
Is filled with rhythm, love and hate
Virtue, darkness, light. 
Bending ‘round from sky to ground,
Heaven, hell and...

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There's facts and small truths and jokes about life,
Canned laughter and the occasional song.
And there's always argued political opinions,
From big to small, right and wrong.

The guests talk, on topic, of their own field,
Never deviating from what's in their head.
And I listen and think and ponder...

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everyone haikus
some is even poetry
but not in this case
5/22/2017


the sun rises each
morn with clocklike precision
yet each day is new
6/7/2017

like folded paper
heart opens to show true love 
now follow the path
12/9/2017...

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Why should everything be about rules?
Why can’t we push the envelope a little and have some fun?

Why live in a space where rules
have the ability to decide our happiness...

What about the woman that touched the hem of his garment? 
if she followed the rules she...

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occasional rain
everybody gets a break
from summer heat...

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When the poems sound ordinary,
change your pattern of life.
Live more than write awhile.
Go out and run a mile.
Get yourself a new wife.
Visit an observatory.

Sit and zone awhile.
Witness something vile.

Fall deep in love.
Be reaped by love.

Break a woman's heart.
Get your heart broken.
Just press down the lead...

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The time I'm happiest is when a new day starts
The arrow shoots straight up my happiness chart
Mr. Sun rolls around heaven
For me, an all-day session
Of grins and giggles and an occasional fart...

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L-et
Y-our
K-indness
A-llow

O-ccasional
R-egards
T-o
I-mplement
Z-est

Topic: Birthday of Lyka Ortiz (February 26) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Green patches
of lawn
surrounded by
flurries of leaves
demarcation lines
peace zones
Occasional puffs of wind
light, easy, unhurried
scatter a few stragglers --
swept along
a couple or three meters
then still
at rest again
they await last rites......

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N-atal
E-vent
L-ets
L-ady

O-r
C-elebrant
H-ave
O-ccasional
A-crostic

Topic: Birthday of Nell Ochoa (January 03) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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L-et
E-vent's
O-ccasional

G-reetings
A-pply
S-imple
P-oem
A-bout
R-egards

Topic: Birthday of Leo R. Gaspar, Jr (March 19) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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L-itterateur
E-xcellently
W-rites
I-nspired
S-cribe's

C-omposition
A-s
R-eaders
R-ealize
O-ccasional
L-ovely
L-ines

Topic: Birthday of poet Lewis Carroll (January 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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J-ust
U-nderstand
N-atal

C-omposition
A-s
S-cribe
A-uthors
O-ccasional
L-ines

Topic: Birthday of Jun Casaol (February 13) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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V-erse
H-as
A-lready
E-mployed
Y-early

B-irthday
E-xpression's
Q-uote
U-ntil
I-t
L-ooks
L-ike
O-ccasional
S-alutation

Topic: Birthday of Vhaey Bequillos (March 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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R-ighteousness
O-f
D-ivine
O-utstanding
L-ine
F-rom
O-ccasional

Q-uotation
U-ses
I-mpressive
N-ote
A-bout
N-ame

Topic: Birthday of Rodolfo C. Quinan, Jr. (April 10) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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