Best Plainer Poems

Will poems to my dull senses rise,
     In plainer garb, or apt disguise?
Can turn of phrase else serve an end,
 ...

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Inspired by the painting "Highland Lassie" (1871) by Thomas Faed.

(Verse One; In introduction to Cailin)
Walkin' on the highways, searchin' down the byways,
Tromps a lonely figure...

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Suspect Dapper Draper,
half-scammed a bank caper.
With his brother Baker,
Whose a known safe breaker.
They rode on fly paper.
To escape down a scraper.
The plans were mere vapor.
They...

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Being melancholy confusion,

saying seriously that we are who we are,

that mountain of dandruff was what we saw,

they all lose anyways so why not chop it...

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Lions, tigers and bears alarm me, no-brainer!
Zookeepers seem to like them and circus trainers.
Some blokes put gray in your hair - like Freddy Krueger
but strokes...

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Miss Jill may find a way.

As I thought about your kindness
And the kids you teach at school.
I pondered how any help can come
From the ink...

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“Knock, knock” “Who’s there?”  I haven’t a clue
What day is it? Who’s at my door?
“Here is some breakfast I made just for you”
Says some...

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I was recently voted top three in my field which was a humbling experience I've never been bothered about awards. But being third showed me...

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It's all about love, whatever we do
It's the reason we get up each day
Everything else is to allow our love
To flourish, to give reason to...

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LOVE  LESSON


I give my  lesson for their son.
Room plain, cracked, greyed -
Rubbed away - curtains frayed.  
Good  furnishing  - ...

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I suppose it is surprising
And I shouldn't let you know it,
I've a hankering for the poetry
Of that old time Hoosier poet.
Perhaps you think his poems...

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How terrible it were hearing his voice
With half-shut eyes asleep in a half-dream
I fought until I could fight no more it seemed 
Non suffering is...

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GRAINS OF SALT

Events and things have meanings
Meanings to everyone
Within us is beyond what is apparent
Sometimes vague and in unqualified form
But are often called sentiments.

Which of...

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My last wish is simple
To lie beside you dear
In eternity’s arms
There to sleep so soundly
Free from earthly alarms.

My last wish is simple
Told you in a...

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Poems – rhyming  or
Free verse – straightforward,
Which paint a picture
That make us laugh or cry,
That strike a chord within us!
Not ordinary! Not untaught
Or unlearned!...

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