Best Papers Poems

Papers, papers that I never
thought I would have to sign.
Is that blood or ink drops
dripping on the dotted line?
Hair matted and stuck like
glue to a dirty head—
as I lay motionless, days
on end in my coffin like bed.

I never knew it was possible
to sob so hard...

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fragile rice papers
cling to a thrashed wicker wall
and silent gazes
kanji-stained blots become buds
some bloom into ureshii


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1.  "Ureshii" means happiness (Japanese).
2.  Formerly titled Minamisanriku's List....

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I sit in front of the fireplace,
in a house empty and cold;
I throw in another waded up piece of paper
from a box all tattered and old.

The flames consume the paper,
like the hundred pieces it did before,
from love letters that she wrote me,
before my heart, in...

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The Silent white grave,
Muted chirrups of sparrows
Fallen petals of Green dreams
Just put your ear very close
Hear the last melodies 
Sung by a cuckoo.
Gaze at the White surface
See the last steps of grassy dances!
Just Smell it,
Feel the last blooming of a jasmine!
A forest is sleeping inside...

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the State of Arizona has signed a very crazy law
that in the opinion of most Americans has some major flaws
it requires each and every person who trods upon their land 
to walk around with proof of citizenship papers in their hands
they say it's not racial...

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The spiral staircase made her high heels sing,
She ran down to meet him at the doorbells ring,
It has been ages since they last met,
He told her not to worry and not to fret,
A nervous fluttering of butterflies filled her,
Last time the age of sixteen they...

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When I'm cleaning
I find her hope;
little pieces of little papers
tucked away
in little places.

silent, secret wishes
of what needs repaired - that no one
can fix or fully understand
her urgency - for 
they see no flaws.

And I cry, a cry
for her, because
she won't - So, I dust
around her...

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The rock, paper and scissors game
at first glance may seem very tame,
but if you are the loser
and he's an abuser
your wrists may be set quite aflame.

For pd.s contest...

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Low-level office drone,
you move cautiously in the corporate hive
Never bringing any attention to yourself,
especially when the pink slip memos fly by
The queen bee of your department,
protects her workers very well
Although from time to time,
she has a tendency to raise living hell
But you never challenge her...

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Pretty papers piled perfectly perpendicular 
Pappy’s preference prefers papers piled properly
Patricia Pappy’s precious princess plunders pile
Pappy painfully piles papers properly precise
Precious princess packs precise papers perfectly
Pappy pondering protecting pretty piled papers  
 Purposely purchases proper padlock protection
Pouting Precious Princess Patricia picks padlock
Pappy paddles Pouting...

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We're not papers in crime
Nothing to be discussed
Of what it was
Favor bliss of an epic 
And it's verdict
But you fill those empty spaces
Of empty scratches
Of empty me
You give proofread of who I really am
And it's successes
You're an ink of never ending
Always refilled and never broken
It's red...

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News papers like food,
Hot today,
Stale tomorrow!...

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David Cameron’s been avoiding tax
He’d better pay back, 
How’s he gonna make tax laws?...

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I could have earned a penny more
If I had the right papers
Would have paid tax of the little for sure
If I had the right papers
The man who pays us under the table
Works us for nothing because he is able

I could have believed in all this...

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The Preacher Gets His Walking Papers

By Elton Camp

The deacons called in the preacher “for a chat”
And uncomfortably talked about this and that
Eventually, the oldest of the deacons spoke out
“Preacher, I’ll tell you what this is really about.”

“Your sermons are so boring they put us to...

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