Best Ought Poems

If I don’t know 
How to raise my voice
Then I should not shout

If I don’t know
How to accept the reality
Then I should not rebel

If I don’t know
How to address a situation
Then I should not trivialize it

If I don’t know
How to be an alternative
Then I should...

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I paid a buck for a Buck skin Coat
I watched a Duck, duck the propellers  of a Boat
I’ve seen the Tears ; of Tears in my Heart* 
I See the Caribbean Sea  Tear my Life Apart
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AUTUMN OUGHT NOT BE SO ORIDNARY

Setting now is another Autumnal sun
Another late October day is nearly done
And now I’ve another night all alone to face
Without a lasting and loving embrace
Sans a kindly kiss good-night
And a “sleep well my sweet” wrapped in delight
With sincerity sequestered in...

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Adrenaline pumping, my tongue is in knots
Her swan like reflection in my every thought
Walking rose cover aisles that I have dreamed of 
Together forever I think I'm falling in love

Dare I stare deeply into those sweet caramel eyes
Searching for meanings to the heavenly skies
With me...

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HEAVEN'S GIFTS

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Any talent we happen to be born with

By heavens is given for common use

It's not offered to us a profit to make,

Any of our poor brothers to abuse


Thus


We should never be proud but must be thankful

For all gifts, we have received from above

It is...

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do but naught then you caint be caught, twas my tweet refraim, better get the words right ought or they'll forget your name......thought not bloody same...Don...

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It's your kiss that thrills
Your nearness my Achilles heel
Your arms disarm my sanity



Cynthia...

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Maybe I ought to write. 
Just write. 
I'll write until I get it right. 

I'll move the words 
words on the sheet 
until they shine with meaning 

Bang my head on my desk 
bleed 
I'm writing a story 

I'll cry 
Swear I'll never do it...

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Rewriting what it is into what it ought to be.
Between who we are and who we could be.
Between how it is and how it should be.
Seeing who I am and seeing the possibility in me.

We can't go through life without making a mistake.
The difference is...

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There ought to be a law

If CEOs ignore firestorm conflagrations
expanding in strength
and endurance
And ignore wet windstorms
wiping out resident populations,
humane and Republican
and otherwise,

If CEOs meanwhile invest all their twitter toilet time
and anti-green revolutionary rallies
expanding hate conflagrations
of disinformation
against their patriotic healthy opposition,
and not one unmediated word,
much less...

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A hobo 
    ought to know
  the sound of a train
    from that of acid rain

  Cos' if he don't know
    he'll be good as dead
  by the time ~ 
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going out on the town
exploring every corner
savouring local cuisine
enjoying every morsel

biting into life's pleasures
a glass of favourite wine
lively ethnic music
getting into the mood

sitting on a terrace
as the sun sets by the sea
waiting for nightfall when
things will really liven up



Posted on October 21, 2024...

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Why can't I see in myself
  what others see in me

So busy comparing reality
  to some idealized version of me

A version of me from so long ago
  no one would recognize it now, so

Perhaps it's time to quash comparisons absurd
  to...

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Am doing what I should and ought;
Temptation off fought and fought;
Which is what I must always do;
Trouble was through and through.

In changing times remember me,
While God does set my soul free;
Though have been dying inside,
May have many things to hide.

My precious memories still persist;
Will add...

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"Daughter," "laughter," do not rhyme but ought to.
Pure squeals of joy ring out from every door.
For surely graced by God is the man who
Has daughters in the house forevermore!

Blessed indeed, for girls have I in plenty;
With Carrys, Laura, Gwen, they come in threes.
Olga too, but...

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