Best Paired Up Poems

Dwell not, O soul, on yesterday, 
  on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago, 
  today may be...

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Written in The Stars 

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Two hearts bleached by the sun
        A poem's - fallen wish
   ...

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Who was it that first said..  
'the eyes are the window to the soul'..
who's eyes did they envision..
and how did they know?

And what of...

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I am a white, middle class, American male; raised in a white, middle class American home.  I would not say that my upbringing included...

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Sullen would be onset of grey, indivisible-dawning;
Soon, lifting mist dissipating beneath the brae.
Comes then a gentle heat arising with the morning...
Thus the remaking of another...

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Conflict was in turmoil at the thought 
    of what he'd done.
And the walls were quickly closing...
    so he...

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The Gorse and Broom now spread a cloth of gold
Robe hillside thus in pristine Spring apparel
With garlands: snowy white, hedgerows enfold
Paired birds that now reprise...

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Who first thought to eat cornbread with chili?
And who first thought to add ketchup to fries -
Who first thought to put that bell in Philly...

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Written: January 23, 2024
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Their melodious humming drifts
through the fragrant night air
carrying...

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It was our third-grade field trip to the Dinosaur Exhibit
We would be touring all the lands that dinosaurs inhibit
I remember the teacher saying “keep your...

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Sir Homophone came to meet the maid that somehow stayed so slim.
Her feat was to stay chaste to him and yet by his feet be...

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It occurred by carelessness and mere happenstance.
If I could move, I would stand and perform a victory dance.
Dropped behind the washing machine, sliding down the...

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Do I fly into another day without you?

With wings of a luminescent swan,
I swoop towards heavenly certainties
Holding each verse your breaths create
On our virgin parchment

Do...

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Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.

I sense that a wince doth...

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Love you 
Each single day
I do

Doing
My best always
To tame
 
Taming
My beating heart
To hear

Hearing
Your words, your thoughts
Your life

Living
We twice as well
As one

Oneness
Is a blessing 
We Share

Sharing
Is the dictum
Practiced

Practice
Makes perfect,...

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