Best Padding Poems

Who was that masked man?!?
Brian Williams, rides again.

He was in Amilia Earhart's plane;
even rode with the Dalton Gang.

The day the Titanic went down;
In the rescue...

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Winter breathes in sepia tones along a lonely two lane street
divided amongst the sweeping frozen dunes
now forced into shouldered amnesty

Street lights shiver in snowcapped bonnets
while...

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* Written for my daughter, who really does have a precious pair of Little Yellow Socks.

Little Yellow Socks
       by...

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Cockle shell candles and firefly lights
padding the path to the woods
Grass crunched and scattered in weeds and in patterns
of the way every garden should look
Cobblestone...

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My body tenses.
The soft padding of footy pajamas
approach
tiny fingers grip my eyelid
lift it....
Bright eyes gaze into
the freshly opened eye.
A voice shouts....DA!!!
The other eye opens.
Yes I'm...

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Christmas was always your favorite time of year, we’d had such fun especially when you dressed up as Santa to entertain the local children. With...

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Blue sky , Summer sun 
Soft moist air , fresh from meadows fair
Towering black clouds, gathering in crowds
Sheets of grey , torrential rains
Soft padding feet...

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My heavy heart ever sighs for you
A syrupy silent smile, awaiting every move
Eyes nomadic, setting like a sunset on the edge of mars
Gazing… as if...

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Seeing that deep rooted tree
founded in soils rich and boldly painful
Lay praise to worthy and spite to shameful
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Old souls spiral in...

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Looking at you from a distance
Knowing from the instant
You began to speak
That your intelligence would hold me strong
Wondering what your eyes will say
If you never...

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Lenny the leprechaun was addicted to **** 
He watched every day on the internet 
Then he'd sleep from dusk to dawn 
Having dreams he couldn't...

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Oh lonely Inevitable Bear,
Padding claws, death in white
Sorrow in recurring nightmare
Instinct’s test; fight or flight?

Camouflage against the fence,
A challenge; my subconscious fear
Ominous slowly moving silence,
“Let...

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In the crisp days of autumn
hot breezes mute his distant bark:
the happy wanderer's song sung
from his old canine heart.

The autumn hunt is on.  He'll...

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An ancient scraggy yellow cat
(nape infected with crusty mange)
frequented our house, asking for food.
He was not shy announcing his presence
or asking to be fed alongside...

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Memories of goodness from collaborating nakedness
are more than strong appetizing captivity from hot omelets and lasagna
serving as the foundation of a strong intimacy
planted in a...

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