Best Preceded Poems

You gave me wings 
    to experience the 
         freedom of flight 
 ...

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I was a skilled, dedicated CIA agent, helping to preserve national security,
By searching for and garnering information, as silvery rain ensures purity.

Days were spent perusing...

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I'll bet this set of rusty shears have a story they could tell,
of the loneliness and broken backs in a land that's hot as hell,
where...

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**Dedicated to those who preceded us and gave their blood, sweat and tears, so we can have the luxuries they could not**


The wind whispers, the...

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I stubbed my toe ...

  (I do this a lot since turning fifty-five,
   when everything I picked up to read began going...

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A Troll in My Trunk
(Inspired by the YouTube video ‘A Monkey in your Trunk’)


Ok! Some crazy person made a YouTube video, about a monkey in...

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He plays jazz as if he invented it
Arpeggios augmented, minored and majored
Transferring from one chord to another
Like flashes of lightning extracting emotional pearls 
all from...

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Bring your guns
Bring your boats
Boats filled with ghosts
Boats weighted with chains
Chains that will one day break
Chains that will carry
Carry us to Zion
Carry our pain
Pain born...

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I can hear them in the distance when the air is bright and clear
They bring back bitter memories of a long ago yesteryear
The whining of...

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We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the...

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We gathered for our thirtieth class reunion at Lydia's Smorgasbord.
I'd avoided such past events since in school I was largely ignored!
But my spouse proclaimed we...

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The truth was concealed with many branches.  Countless are the days I happily lingered in the comfort of your shade before passionate winds revealed...

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Preceded by the past
Predicted by the past
Preferred more than the past
Product of past thoughts
Portal to the future
Prevalent to wisdom
Place in time all happens...

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Trump Has His Supporters

What are they saying about the Trumpster
What he did was discovered in a dumpster
And we have also heard some others say
Lives there...

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Guess what happened today?
A cute boy stole my heart away.
He looked in my eyes,
And took hold of my hand.

He took my breath away,
Made me want...

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