Best Off Your Guard Poems

I've been dealing with the fluvid,
And boy, it's hit me hard 
I was out and about last week, 
When it caught me off my guard
...

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I can’t hide the pain that’s beating in my heart
The sadness and the anger it’s tearing me apart
Never ever dreamed your news would hit me...

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Life life should be treasured because 
Life is short and before you know it 
You might die anytime anywhere 
Life is filled with with thing...

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Upon the dusty shores I watched 
the calming waves of sea debauched. 
They seem to whisper in my ear 
then motioned me to venture near....

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So who would have thought after 11 years
You’d be the one to take away my fears

I won’t deny that I’m hooked on you 
And I...

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Conflict
 
The priest ran
Scared to raise 
An ignorant army

On a darkling plain
Loading guns
With dummy

Faith. The froth
Rose arrogantly
In the test

Tube.  They heard
Eyes shut and saw
Ears...

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Dolly woke first kissed Damian 
On his cheek. He was still asleep.
Today was July 27th  Dolly 
Thought, "Oh my Goodness."
"Today is me and Molly's...

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I slipped into depression
I never thought I would
As I really liked to mingle
At every chance I could

But the beast it got me
When I was off...

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Poet's Notes 1:
My poet's notes must precede the next Echo Poem as well because the poet 
has not given me permission to publish her poems...

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Mesmerizing. Fierce fully aggravating.
Sinfully off this guard
Narrowly beyond tracks
Heart-aching, credit-crunching.
Stomach-turning, memory-converging.
Temperance.
Control. Mind-bugging soul 
Cracks, strokes, tears, burns
The butterflies churn
Nerve-racking. Emotion-bedazzling
Ambience comely.

Done. No more.
Appetite so ended
Thoughts...

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Someone broke into my heart
And caught me off my guard.
He pilfered every ounce of love
And left a calling card.

I don't know how he did it.
I'm...

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‘Round eight o’clock this morning I was sitting in our kitchen,
Wondering what the best way was to occupy my day,
When, “Wha’d’ya’ want for breakfast, dear,”...

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Law of causality was 
seeking answers from the 
rites of flowers. Why do a black powder 
and glass sharpnels interrupt 
the turnover of bliss, 
when...

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It caught me off my guard
And crept up while I slept,
When I awoke at dawn
Through the window it slowly went.

It never said a word to...

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Whew, today’s unexpected chilled wind
Made a mockery out of both spring
And fall in their changing off the guard-like
Waning and waxing in the rhythmic circadian
Nature of...

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