Best Pickings Poems

When the snout of lush abundance is full and flowing,
when all prey and creature-kind spill upon the verdant swards,
then it is that I worry night...

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Blackberry bushes barricade the background
of your immature stature.
Braided chestnut hair rests gently 
on weakly shoulders
as your hazel eyes beam a child's rippling wonder.
Bee-glazed berry juice...

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THE ARDINGLY JACKDAWS
The jackdaws know from prudent aviation
As they scan the land for real estate that's prime
In touch with best of value in location
The venerable...

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Off to the races, running...
from pillar to post,
from store A to Z.

a mad dash for...
sweet deals; the bright light
of sheer excitement...

grace the faces
of early shoppers.
'Tis...

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You come back
with your mind
full of treasures.
Today, there was a leaf 
plucked from a tree still coated
in whispers, a shard of sunlight
and a bird call...

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Recline with ease,
no drippings
lips curled
forehead curve in a smile
breath at ease
here is the story to blend,
grin pass the shadows
as the trees bow their heads
nothing but...

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The tree's up, yet it’s not looking so prim
its needles all shriveling and dying, 
so this Christmas is feeling kinda grim.

The cat destroyed the decorative...

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Let me explain the dawn of her beauty.
Perharps in one word or two.
This to me isn't my duty.
Her wanders, a strange fiction to the world...

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Tents of various colours in parade across the sands
It's summer time in Brighton as the sun beams down so grand

Families too many to mention, on...

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Charles Dickens
was said to be the pickings
of literature in the nineteenth century,
but I couldn't make it pass page three!...

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THE PAUPER


Bent and frail, the old man stood
Seeking alms only when in need of food
Without any whining to gain sympathy
But an upturned palm and a...

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The Atomic Café stays with me, over
even the most perfect of days.
I think about the arrogance of power
and how most people live in a daze.

I...

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REVOLUTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


A revolution is much deeper than what the eye can see 
An opportunity to rid the land of despotism and tyranny
When any citizen...

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(A LIFE TIME IN A DAY)
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brownian
    here I go~
       haiku number one

round and round
my thoughts and the fan...
full of air

plane up...

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