Best Roost Poems

That life is a struggle, there's no denying
when the distance between light and dark 
is just one misstep across the boundary line
Problematic for mankind since time began
Prompted by the reminder of crows flying

I have need to heed his words in the great book
There's truth there...

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There must be something I haven't written about

In over eighteen hundred poems

Searching and searching my large massive brain

But for now creativity has flown

Can't think of anything that's worthy of my time

I've started to run out of gas

Could write about anything just to fill in for...

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Vulture;  brazen carnivore, perched high atop the tree
waiting, just waiting, to swoop down for his opportunity
to pick the bones of something or someone he wishes dead
and all the while he roosts and waits for his daily bread.

Nasty black-eyed bird of prey, your ego is...

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Where The Owls Roost, The Moon Shines Brightest

Where the owls roost, the moon shines bright
The old withered oak stands beaten and proud
Scars, proud medals of its strength and might
night owls hooting , often not so very loud

Where the moonlight streams onto life below
Seas move with...

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Some call me prolific
I call me obsessed
Some say I'm a kook
I say I'm blessed

It's all that I think of
Poems from the heart
But silly damn nonsense
Is still my main art

Takes the same effort
To make people laugh
As it does to depress them
To make you gasp

So this here...

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Some call me prolific
I call me obsessed
Some say I'm a kook
I say I'm blessed

It's all that I think of
Poems from the heart
But silly damn nonsense
Is still my main art

Takes the same effort
To make people laugh
As it does to depress them
To make you gasp

So this here...

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HE WHO RULES THE ROOST

toddler holds the clock
reveille at five o’clock
before the cock crows

6/13/2017...

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Yo chickens coming home to roost bitches
While you went south stealing their riches

One hundred years you plundered 
While putting South America asunder

Copper Silver and Gold
Polluting the land while you stole

Aluminum and Iron Ore
Thousands of death if you re keeping score

Now the poverty is wrecking havoc...

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he told me i was crass
he told me i was trash  
he told me i had no fire
he told me he was tired
he told me
he was leaving me for her

perched on the window 
of my empty lair
with a half sneer parked 
on my dry...

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While whittling away,
Household tasks today,
Sparrows peacefully perched by my window,
Sunning on golden Cyprus, as they will tomorrow.

Betwixt bird feeder flights,
They absorb warmth of sunlight,
Until seed needs lead to silly squabbles,
Luckily the extent of their troubles.

Back and forth the tiny flock follows its leader.
A chilly day...

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A buzzard circles slowly
gliding across the
forest, his
home

The sun shines shadows
rolling across these
fatigued hills
forever...

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The political storm is gathering 
Election fever is at its highest pitch 

As Nigerians head to the polls
To exercise their franchise

In the mother of  all elections
The most crucial ever

Since the birthing of uninterrupted 
Democracy in our dear father land

This would be an election like...

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Microlight


When they appeared, we were like, “What …the?” motorcycles
dangling from multi-coloured wings, animated comic book scene
blond wisps racing at leisure in deliberate mid-morning breeze
rainbow spectrum gone haywire, in the azure June sky
they were flaunting metallics, Kariba breams in fish eagle talons.

They hovered above, the whole...

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Rooster ~
     Pecks the dust, raising 
   Particles, pebbles
 Earth.

       Hen ~
     Comes around
  Roosts with him.






Paint a Picture Poetry Contest (7 lines)
Sponsor: Joseph May
September 22, 2020...

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There is an expression "when the chickens come home to roost" and our current pandemic is revealing these raw truths. Did we let a rooster in the hen house? Did he keep us safe? Does his presence keep us vulnerable and on our nerves grate?...

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