Best On Tenterhooks Poems

This restlessness won't leave me,
it buzzes about my chest
as though it were a field of daisies
waiting to be pollinated
by a swarm of fretful bees
who sting like honed pebbles
but never die

At night, I can hear the daffodils whimpering
from my windowsill,
they reach for me
with limp limbs,
I feed...

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Electorate on tenterhooks until...
outcome of 2020 presidential election announced

Polling places slated to open seven o'clock
in the morning November third two thousand twenty
heightened tensions will strain patience
to breaking point concerning
extreme anticipation common joe experiences
(biden his/her time)
regarding which candidate trumpeted
as de facto commander in chief of United...

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Electorate on tenterhooks until...
outcome of 2024 presidential election announced

Polling places slated to open seven o'clock
in the morning 
November fifth two thousand twenty four
heightened tensions will strain patience
to breaking point concerning
extreme anticipation common joe experiences
(biden his/her time)
regarding which candidate trumpeted
as de facto commander 
in chief of...

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