Best Overs Poems

Written By:  D. Collins 2/2/16

Peculiar things happen trying to live out life.
It has no mercy.  You only get one strike.
Make no excuses and have no regrets.
There are no do-overs or second chance.

Life is deliberate.  It has a start and an end.
An Alpha...

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pbj toast
the brown edges 
always left...

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Public policies are program designs 
with regenerative health and safety vetted practices,
rooted in evidence of positive outcomes
and usually supported by some form of systematic theory
about why they appear to do more good than harm,
and at what cost compared to alternative strategies.

Producing executive orders
that are primarily...

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I wonder if one human life
comes with opportunities to go home again.

TimeLine Do-Overs.

I wish I could have taught my kids,
and my neighbors' kids,
and your kids,
that the Holy Spirit is to Christianity
as the Gaia Hypothesis is to EarthJustice and Peace,
to Bodhisattva Warriors,
to secular humanist ecologist atheists,
to...

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25 nov 2016  9:00 AM
Left overs

Dinner was enjoyed and friends have gone home.
And now we sit here together alone.

Digesting the food and remembering the laughter
Forgetting about clean up until the day after

A time of feasting and family fun
slowing the pace from lifes frantic run

When...

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A group of people 
Sit at the table
They order their drinks
Then order their meas
They chat awhile
Then order their meals
Some enjoy -others do 
not
Waitress ask them 
If finished the meals
Some say yes -others 
do not
One couple piles the food
Then they ask the person
next to them
If they...

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Unforgiving rocky crag
    juts
into empty space
hanging
on a whisper of frozen
   exhale
Puffy whiffs rise
oh
   so
      gently
lazy
Icy death on misslip
slippery ledge
free
     fall
         forgiveness
tumble...

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another day...
i have walked
one
day at a time

now it is
another hour
i hear mommas'
old clock chime

i look at  me and say
'WHO is that?'
the image is silent
and just looks back

here is the deal....
i want start overs
can't i HAVE THAT?

again the image
just stares back

the answer is clear
even i...

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underhand overs -
it's all over down under
weeping cricketers

© Gail Foster 31st March 2018...

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ANYONE WANT LEFT-OVERS?
THE TURKEY IS GRAY.
THE CHICKEN GOT UP AND WALKED AWAY.
MY ORANGE JUICE TOLD ME IT WAS TIME TO GET RID OF HIM.
IN MY FRIDGE IT’ LIKE A BIG POLLUTED SEA.
THE PEAS ARE BLACK NOW AND FROWNING AT ME.
THOSE SANDWICHES ARE COVERED IN MOLD.
MY...

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No Overs, Baby


Day is done and coming night so very, very long
gone is my youth when I was so massively strong
Seasons no longer hold those sweet, epic thrills
treks into the forests and walks in the blue hills

No longer joy in the conquests of wild, wild...

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She doesn't want warmed over poems,
Just as Grandpa and his pie.
Much like my darling grandma did
I'll try hard to comply.

Conceived, revolved, molded with love
Poems and pies are much alike.
I did well in her other one today.
How often can luck strike?

So here it is dear Constance,
All...

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Life Grants No Do Overs
By: Miracle Man
7/12/2023

I’ve heard “Life is quick so make it count,”
so that near it’s finish there’s no regrets.
Though your importance isn’t paramount,
to some you’re the sun that rises and sets.

We should endeavor each day to do our best,
and from hurting others,...

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My destiny is divinely designed
The lies of the devil cannot change it
Challenges are transit points 
That connect me to my destiny

As I ride through life’s stop-overs
I refuse to be stuck at transit points by challenges
And miss my gateway to God’s promises
The tougher the challenges the...

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Mouths agape, we watch
In shock,denial and accept
Take overs, political and business

Royalty wants and gets control
As you are shut in, to shut up
The new abnormal rules

To those who know, shhhh
To those who don't, watch the numbers
Business unusual in the neighborhood...

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