Best Recalling Poems

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Recalling the Moment
  
flashing cool gray 
shadows matched
my fluttering heartbeat as 
a painted lady butterfly passed by



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(c) sally young eslinger 8/story 2024
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Recalling        Laughing          Reading               Learning       Teaching myself
the flicker of ...

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My father and I in a long time past
played cards at the table and he would pause
to tell me a tale when he was young
as he did so many times before
but the stories would change
as he would rearrange
his life as a youth in the land...

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With your diploma in hand, you stand smiling,

one of one-hundred-thirty-four graduates of law

from Willamette’s Class of 2009

to walk across that stage.


I give a cheer.

Your father, crouched near the front,

is ready with the camera

to capture this moment we have all awaited.


It’s a moment of happiness

for you...

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Divorce me
Marry my dreams
I dreamt I was loving you for eternity.
I know your beauty is a hoax
I don't mind falling a million time indeed
As far as I end up giving a toss
That forever we shall swim in love streams.

Love is blind
But your beauty won't let...

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Hue of joy colors
Embers of past wilted scenes;
Memories relived…...

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Waiting on the hardness, as the marine substitute 
Hitting the foot of my spirit, is that questioning? 
I call a bend in the road surface, as I plummet 
It always saves me near the underside 

As it is paradise sent on Earth 
Dampen within and...

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She encased my heart
Her eyes elated my soul.
Lips so sensual
Encapsulated beauty
Forever my mind recalls....

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Sand

S-h-i-f-t-i-n-g 

U n d e r n e a t h 

Strong hands hold me 

Waves lap at my feet as I   smile   content



10/22/17


Contest: Dust off a memory 
Sponsor: Broken Wings 
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a pen and a pad is how it began
my life submerged onto some paper
as my soul bled thru black ink
not knowing of what to do or to think
it was as if my hand had a mind of its own
as if something in me had been...

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ENTHUSIASM: zest & zeal have divine origins, "en theos" or In God...

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Civilly shivily,
Golden State voters said
they should have Arnold			
to lead them, you bet!

Hasta la vista Babe,
gubernatorial
Big Terminator is
not finished yet....

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wandering quaint streets 
long ago with my small group,
we view Notre Dame

graceful Parisian essence . . .
fire can’t devour memories


May 11, 2019
Poetry Contest: Notre Dame In The News 
Sponsor: Kim Rodrigues...

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We were still free to dream,
however, a tax on any imaginative writing
that contravened the rules or regulations
for literary acceptability 
or worse
were deemed counter-revolutionary.

In Poland, the last of the hold-outs
wrote odes to Chopin
but essentially all was well ordered and
compliant to the powers that be.

Now that Chinese...

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They Are Recalling WHAT!

By Elton Camp

Most car recalls are not a big deal
We’re still safe behind the wheel

Even food recalls are usually okay
If the food was cooked the right way

But it really comes as quite a whack
If they want your pacemaker back

Likewise, if it’s your...

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