Best Pass The Hat Poems

Follow down the garden path 
That leads to inner peace.
Plant the seeds of gratitude.
Indulge your best caprice.

Simplify each ritual.
Improve the whole routine.
Stay flexible and balanced.
Fold...

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What mighty man shall this cup serve,
Whose power rests on fealty’s nerve,
With certain lust it shames to know,
How upon its charms did grow.

A thousand years...

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I Celebrate My Father
By Franklin Price
6/16/2017

I celebrate my father he was the best of men
He's the reason I'm who I am or who I've ever...

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He rode in to Santa Fe one summer day on a broken-down, sweaty nag.
All he owned was the clothes on his back and the Bible...

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Back in the early 30's and 40's in Southern New Mexico
Was a traveling preacher watching over his herd
Never had a church like we know
He did...

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Bat Masterson was hired as a gamblin' boss at the Denver Saloon in 1891,
In a town high in the Rockies, Creede by name; he took...

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Caustic fears,
Campaign smears,
A candidate faking tears.

Spewing lies,
Employing spies,
No one willing to compromise.

Platforms,
Reforms,
Recruiting in college dorms.

She’s a bore,
He’s at war,
No one knows what we’re fighting for.

Take...

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