Best Passable Poems

She stared into the mirror,
wished she could utter the Queen's request.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall...." 
What was the use?  She was not beautiful.
Nor was she rich.  No plastic surgery for her.
 
Oh to be beautiful, men admiring her,
she'd be always in control,
beckoning, ordering,...

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inextinguishable
is your appetency
for what you suspire

you feed on this drug
to make life passable
but by the same line
that educes endurance
it will transport
inevitable death


Dec 10. 2019
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(Verse 1)
First day of Summer it came and seemed
Like Summer would never end
The weight of all my hopes and dreams
Could be carried on the wind
The heat burned off the memories
Of cold and dreary weather
But somehow we forget that seasons change
And nothing lasts forever

(Chorus)
The Summer breeze
Like...

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Almost always, as additional allurements arrive, ask as a Being...
 By better borne behests become best Causes ?
  Can causes create concise concepts Diligently ?
   Do doers do decidedly dumb doldrums Ever ?
    Each eek echoes egotistical efforts enduring...

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When the real you
Is not good enough 
When you weighed by a stranger’s scale
And you are labeled inadequate
Do you try and become 
Who they think you are 
Or do you walk around under the blanket 
Of not being good enough forever

Even when you know you...

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Quite silly to
During inclement
Birds on the hill
Announcing the
resentment
Blessings for
disappeared
Water and stone not
working miracles

Not the rule
Although some
Not effectively
contained
And no smiling
Possibly reduces
Souls
Loads tears.

Puzzled stripes
In south and breeze
And the dissolute
No one else to turn
Affected continuous
The Hobo
Also fell in
quicksand!

But are persistent
The wrath of Heaven
Impatient that
perhaps
With the integration
of tikatik ...
The...

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Who were those hoodlum, who wanted thy do lour ,
thou were revered by all the classes , honored by only colors' ,
thou ruled the entire family of the galleys , who looked like the great Hercules ,
who had a large amount of strength , whose...

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Butters Drippin’ From My Ears

Summer’s mostly over
I’ve not once mentioned Iowa corn.
It’s the symbol of the state
In which this rhymer’s born.

There are other places
That grows passable “sweet” corn.
I’ve eaten several others
But my druthers always torn.

In dead of winters dreary days
And it’s all the markets got
That...

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Pronounced side effect upon my dreams...
courtesy Fluoxetine hydrochloride

Fluoxetine Hcl (C17H18F3NO·HCl)
known as Selective Serotonin
Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI),
especially prescribed to treat
depression, panic disorder,

and obsessive-compulsive disorder
the above symptoms
profoundly experienced by yours truly
said prescription medication
seriously impacts sleep (mine).

Debilitating panic attacks
wrought (particularly years gone by)
physiological displeasures chiefly constituting
vertigo, racing heart, nausea,
excessive...

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they would dice many a chive
   by management me from da dive
apartments in hatfield in close proximity 
   to the bloody sorry fate 
   oof a von nee gutt 
   thar slaughter house five.

mine eyes saw gore...

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The ride to the country is uneventful
Except that I feel a little like
A man riding inside a cannon ball.
Yuliya's father Igor drives
I'm also up front (the honored guest)         
While Yuliya, her mom, and brother
Fill the back of...

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My mother's dishes are as delicate as she,
Tiny pink rose bouquets and silver rims.
Once I used them with her lace tablecloth,
For Thanksgiving and Christmas back then.

Then came the day of casual living,
She had given me a set of gold flatware,
So I set a pretty table...

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If I'm not allowed to fall, 
I can't learn to walk
Through peace with falling, 
I rise again in strong faith
When I climb a mountain, 
I see its lowest point
By peace with the lowest points,
all fears dissipate

Even while traveling, 
I long to stand still
Thanks to such...

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Merrilyn escorts John through the Western trudges, as strangest of strangles blocks the memerrical double
Her momentous reflection: sordid, drossy, and wide to portant throttles
As whips become kisses and fainting memories open with admittance
The sorest sense of what will
She sinks down with arms befuddled, hands secreting...

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Jim’s fingers are grimy, oh dear
He has a solution I hear
As Jim loves to bake
Scone mixture he’ll make
Of his cakes I am steering clear!

Jan’s in a bit of a jam
My microwave’s a sticky mess
Strawberry pulp’s splashed on my dress
I must find a programme
On how to...

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