Best Pawing Poems

Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our cries, more passionate than any that have gone before

Part II

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Biting winds and swirling flakes of snow had finally abated

We surveyed the deep drifts, which lay on the fields
The silvery moon peeped through the clouds and lit our way
It was bitterly cold, but the pitiful sound of bleating spurred us on
Some friends and neighbours had...

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Sighed Adam to Eve:
“Because you were deceived,
Like a fool, I believed.
Sadly, all our conceived
Will be sorely bereaved.”

Well, that should be it, right?
No, boys and girls, not quite!

So you can hear what they were all up to,
We now bring this long lost tape to you:

Adam:
“You really...

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It was Christmas Eve, not a soul made a sound,
And not so much as a mouse could be found,
The children had hung their stockings on the hearth,
As a quiet, peacefulness gently fell upon the Earth,
My family were all asleep, their heads full of dream,
Of Santa's...

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Confused silence swirls around my feet,
and the anguished summer leaves,
drunk with the morning dew,
are lingering limp. 
Waiting for autumn
Preparing to crumble and mingle with earth

Somewhere beneath them
under the thunder and a tremulous sky
earth wears the scabs of old wounds

There are places that can't be forgotten...
corrupt...

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I was caught by a train yesterday

I hear people say
this often in exasperation
exaggerated tones
with over-dramatic groans
as if the train somehow
physically captured them
in its large mechanical grasp
diabolically refusing
to let them go

Yesterday
I was caught in a different way
imagination captured, you might say
captivated
charmed
and enchanted
by the passing art display

Something...

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II

And did his rash actions give this prince
Cause, in moments of troubling quietude,                 
To ruefully ponder on all which could not
Be rewound?       ...

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This is Mine, All Mine                                     by Chuck Keys

Fall day,...

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(True story...!!)      
                                   ~
T'was the night...

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Pretty, tawny, tabby Tabor 
purring   snuggler,
full of  curiosity and play 
He saw the door ajar for a fast getaway
His golden eyes gleamed
Jail break; as he dreamed


Ditching out as fast as a jet
The backyard pond he couldn’t forget 
full of lily pads and...

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Couch Potato

You are sitting on my couch, now. 
You are watching TV with my kid. 
Yes, she is old enough to sit there. 
She is technically, All Grown Up!
That is not the issue. 

Be careful, 
You are ever being…
watched. 

For what? 

The way you are;
What...

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If I were a horse, what kind would I be?
A raging white stallion so wild and so free,
Leading the herd to new pastures green,
Sinuous, shiny; a sight to be seen! 
Handsome and striking; pawing the air
I’d be the desire of every young mare.

No, not a...

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Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means spleen infamy
while intercepting it invokes Victory's voice,
in the huddle a...

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The full moon and milky snow illuminate the nighttime landscape I found myself lost on the mountain. 

   I have to make a choice. Looking for the North Star I placed a stick pointing north to direct me to the closest destination when...

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Diamante


Puppy
small, cuddly
yapping, pawing, licking
playful, energetic, fun, adolescent
clawing, barking, nibbling
massive, lap-loving
Dog

This poem is in dedication to my lap loving, 75lb pit-bull!!
His name is SCOOBS...

Jared Pickett
4/13/2012...

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