Best Out Of Sight : Out Of Mind Poems

I lost a friend; Jason really loved his gin.
One night while he was on a binge.
He walked off into the deep end,
now no one has...

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You charm me for days with words you text
Then I'm completely ignored, left feeling perplexed
Maybe you're afraid that we're moving with haste
But totally ignoring me...

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Maybe this can't be saved.

One more short year and I'll never see her again. I'll always be wondering about 
her but it's better left that...

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In my bed.
Winter blahs.
Colorless ground
Icy jaws.

I poke my head
Timidly forth.
I see some green
I feel some warmth.

I stretch my tendrils
Toward the sky.
Spindly spikes
Reaching high.

Slowly my body
Unclenches,...

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when i die
the clocks will keep ticking
the earth will not mourn
even you my love will not miss  a heartbeat
nor will you pause to hold...

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I tried to put my Jesus in a jewelry box
So I could carry him around
Take him out when I had the time
Marvel at my image...

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A dream in tune with waking world,
meanings grasp conscious unfurled,
alive alliteration aligned,
beautifully poised and perfectly timed.

Lucid dreamer weaving webs,
create rising tide that never ebbs,
perihelion pendulum...

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For many years, the creek, ran passed as a drain,
Polluted and unloved; a poisoned murky vein.
A favoured dumping place, for household unwanted things -
out of...

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An infinity of night for us to burn in our love.
You, my love, a beauty within a silver spotlight.
I shall drown in your beautiful eyes...

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Things Grow Legs

Sometimes, I swear, things grow legs
Recipes, scissors, car keys in place
But when I look they move away
To floors, newspaper piles – hiding spaces.

We...

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From a distance what I saw
in a Down Syndrome child
was a human in the raw—
forgettable, lamentable, wild.

My prejudice was abhorrent
dismissing a "different" being.
Disdain came in...

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Children At Risk







Every time I hear a child has been neglected 

and vastly un protected.

Parents and caretakers have the most important

job of the world,

To raise...

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To the legendary teacher I pay tribute
For imparting live voices to the mute
You paid gratitude
To the multitude
On the mountain top you stood
And all the heads...

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Torture’s Toxic Contagion
                  by Odin Roark

From where comes...

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Catching me out and truly unexpected
Flashbacks that only bring tears to mind
Children so powerless, no happiness to see
Left in the darkness to fear night and...

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