Best Regretfully Poems

lasting... 
all through your life, dear child, 
the following crucial life lessons... 

let go of the things 
you cannot change; 
all things beyond your control.
the...

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Around the corner (20141010)

What’s around the corner?
What’s just beyond our view,
For the soldier and the foreigner,
What’s ahead for me and you?
Two terribly tired turtles
Which wearily...

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Fred The Hawk and his wife were most frightening to behold.
No one got away from them; they were in a class so very bold.
They had...

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I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and...

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I roll the dice one more time
One more poker card I ask.
I search for one last dime
Train my face to be a mask.

Luck be a...

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A curtain of rain obscures my view,
    as I gaze out my window and think of you.

You've been gone for many a...

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The nurse ordered her to push, push, push
in her best proper voice 
and linen balled in red fists knotted
and sweat falls from red face knotted...

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My Heart Better Fares . . .

The heart better fares you say when it cowers
 not so all sails deployed you chartered a
relentless course for...

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Infinitely I long for 
Someone to write a song for. 
Dismally I claim to be
Content with being lonely. 
Pitifully I fake my glee
While my sorrow...

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“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie, face
Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!”
“Address To A Haggis”, Robert Burns, 1786.
(Keeper o’er the Fourth Kingdom)

Robert, Robert, Fourth Kingdom
Gate Keeper.
No Telestial...

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I do so love harvest thanksgiving, 
That time of year which celebrates agriculture, 
When church flips from being god-centred, 
To remembering farmers and good food...

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Another new day has begun
and I've been given one more day
to feel the pain I always feel
from knowing that I don't belong
and that I should...

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The love of life is a very beautiful and splendid thing. Regretfully, it’s something many
fail to ever recognize. One day, I stopped to contemplate the...

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Feeling like we are growing apart, broken trust is the process how it starts.
Adulteration I suddenly became, a substance that tends to contaminate.
I lessen in...

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Don’t weep along side my grave, as I am no longer there.
My body rests close underneath, but my spirit’s everywhere.

Don’t weep along side my grave,...

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