Best Owens Poems

Golden rays filter through rustling red leaves
Oscillating fall colors to rhythms of evening
Amid sounds exotic as animals roam freely
Deep into wilderness, where rare birds sing,
Where...

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Turbulent impervious obsidian lifeless world clouds God's compassionate
betrothed faithful prayer family.
Moonlight joy havens awestruck love elation.
Aquamarine wave spirits hot desire 
beyond passion.
Lilac crescent sky petals.
Life...

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Robin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon

Hear the call of the...

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Born Doris, named for our grandmother Doris Owens,
she is nothing much like grandma.
If anything, I am more like grandma
for my thrifty ways and down-to-earth practicality.

Doris,...

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This is always a very very difficult time of year for me. I get so dang depressed,
and yes the majority of that pain comes from...

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“Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar.”      ...

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Fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it...

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Thank You!...

It's Black history month, so we come to celebrate, 
all the hues of brown that made our nation great! 

From Fredrick and Harriet to...

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I was running from the man

Or the cops if you please

 I hopped over a fence

Landed funny, scraped my knee

 

Looked around and saw a...

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The Champion

Controlled by remote desires  I trip the laurel fuse of longing ancestry
My Mom had been chosen to compete diving from the high platform...

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Raging tornadoes
devastate the entire land
destroying cities

Raging huricanes
plundering oceans and land
natures agony

Tsunami monster
Indian Ocean graveyard
deadly disaster


by Marty Owens March 9, 2012
For PD's contest Nature the Destroyer...

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Indian Blood

Im a Indian
with a bow an arrow of Venom
with a wall of heads of pilgrims
with colmbus head in a container sealed in
wearing the shoes...

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Frogs

Frog follies this year
featuring the loudest croak
All frogs in review!

Lilly Pads

Floating lilly pads,
used in spring as sailboats for
poliwogs galore!


Marty Owens for Lilly Pads and Frogs...

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Eternal music
ringing in your heart
melodies burst forth
singing moon dust songs
perfect harmony
Terry Black sings
song named Moondust
movie Meatballs
love and romance
stereo
funny film
heavens glow
love song
mortal
sang

song
Moondust
drifted
from Heaven
fell upon 
your shoulders
was...

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Let's take a trip back,
It was 1992
A young lady had a baby,
she didn't know what to do
She didn't have any 
money
Fortune
Luck
Or a house,
Just a baby...

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