Best Permitted Poems

I.

They are too much supper
And never enough. The stomach
Drops as does a basket of apples too heavy for the
Hands that carry it. Yet, each green orb is
So delightful, that to pluck even one from
Its woven nest seems wasteful. 
I do not intend to feed the...

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Spooling southward on shattered wing-
I ache to fold from life’s cruel sting! 
(I’d rather die, than say goodbye)
Because I can’t repent this suffering

(A reinvention of 'No Assembly Required')...

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The traffic cop told me you’re in for a fine
You should not dishonour the speed limit sign
Which made little sense
My driving license
Said, (in black and white) tear along dotted line...

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"write, right?"


it was wrote
it is written:

it will be alright

as i
look 
down 

down 
at my feet
but have to think
as if i'm Wittgenstein

those really are my feet, right?

but
even
if they 
are or aren't
i can at least say not 

just to please Hericlitis 

i'm not stepping
in the same stream
as...

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A love lives inside
a tiny thought
that’s born inside
my heart each day

She’s more than a
memory, and a valued
part of the joy that
in my world stays

And the thought of
her is like the sun
which at the break
of dawn does rise

For just as the sun
shines its first
golden rays, in...

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He stood upon my porch
Poised and ready to knock
Yet, I had to open the door
Before his hand hit the surface
I immediately greeted him,
Asking him to enter, take refuge
From the seasons brutality
“Kind sir?” he started with a whisper
“Why have you allowed me loneliness in the cold?”
I...

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