Best Outrageously Poems

Something minute had been carefully tucked away, it was a nut
Got loose, rolled helplessly away, had no direction afraid, she shut
Her eyes, and slowly rolled towards a destined force,
An eager bolt nearby bolt gave her the eye, she thought to pause,
She looked at him said...

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"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"

                    John Ruskin, 1853


I think of youth’s sweet friendships when I was learning how to form bonds with...

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It was a mild autumn day
far enough from summer’s heat
 awaiting winter’s cold bite

The brilliant shafts of sunlight
ignited the vibrant colors 
of autumn’s falling leaves

I watched them as they fell
tumbling down
all around me

Like outrageously large confetti
every color
from vivid scarlet to warm brown

I ran through the...

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Mama held me close to her bosom
wouldn't let me go astray
she shook the cradle of civilization
and to her wayward offspring 
she paid attention.
 
She added a tinge of color to the cheeks of some
and tinted plenty with even more
for identification, as to whom they belonged.
...

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I'm not overly fond of receiving a family's annual gushing story,
In the form of a Christmas Letter stating that all is hunky-dory.
I received one the other day in which they told the honest truth,
And I'll relay its contents though of me it may be somewhat...

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Wait a minute, in my dream last night
I met the guy who fit just right
Vivid memory coming through
Of me finally meeting you

Golden purple dreamy haze
Moments caught inside your gaze
Touches, kisses, magic, whole
In this dream filled time we stole 

Laughing, grinning, soft caresses
Holding hearts and healing...

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Episode 1

Enter Fire Ball

Can I help being curvaceous and bold, 
Or so I’ve been told,
Can I help it, if I get a visual massage,
Daily compliments, in fact a barrage!
I was born a beauty, and to only preen
Always to be seen as pristine!
In fact I’m an...

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Nineteen nosey newts nudged nasty nautical nannies
Eighteen eager ermines excitedly edged everyone’s ego 
Seventeen sacred slugs sat sideways searching seagulls
Sixteen slippery snails slid southwards sipping sangria
Fifteen flowery foxes fell forward fondling fuchsias
Fourteen frantic fleas froze fighting frightening fanatics
Twelve twiddling tigers told thirteen tasteless tales
Eleven elderly...

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It was a mild autumn day
far enough from summer’s heat
 awaiting winter’s cold bite

The brilliant shafts of sunlight
ignited the vibrant colors 
of autumn’s falling leaves

I watched them as they fell
tumbling down
all around me

Like outrageously large confetti
every color
from vivid scarlet to warm brown

I ran through the...

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I remember every minute of the first day we met, 
It was raining, coming in to the reception you got wet,

At a mutual friend’s wedding, you came with a date,
You sat next to me, this was our destiny and fate!

You flirted outrageously with me from...

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The Fifties were really and truly not all that square
Though that dullard Dwight D. sat in the Executive Chair
And his frumpy wife Mamie had really bad hair
Matching those dowdy, plain dresses she'd wear ...

While husbands toiled in obscurity for large corporations 
The "Ugly Americans," reviled...

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my laugh raises hair on people’s necks
it is not petite, polite, refined, or subtle.
it is a throwback to your hillbilly ancestral
caveman’s outrageously loud and ugly laugh.

when it happens, it is as if the bowels of my 
inner crazy is released after 4,000 years in
a dutch...

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Three-Legged Table

As I drove through an old neighborhood, I spotted a garage sale sign. 
I pulled off to the side of the street. With impatience, I couldn't get out
of the car quick enough. Right in front of the drive sat a vintage,
small drop-leaf, three-legged, brass...

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Call me ludicrous 'cause
I know it’s outrageously early but
I’m aching to put up my Christmas tree
It’s crazy but no surprise
I could use a little cheer
I want to buy in to the illusion 
That everything is wonderful
That everything will be alright
That Santa will take care of...

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When my enthusiasm is high and I feel joyful 
my mind is orange.
Wildly and outrageously colorful, 
bursting with happy to help sad out.

Sad is gray. 
She wants to hold me under her muck 
until I cannot breathe.

I begin shrieking for orange and hot pink and...

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