Best Saner Poems

Dr. Seuss: “How did it get to be so late so soon?”

I sat down to write, 
but no thoughts would come.
Still thinking and thinking,
I said,...

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I flip the history of Bojangles
On a cool Sunday evening
Los Angeles coming down
A flow of oboes breathing
Through the lung of the street
The hobo not stopping...

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from "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke:
"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going...

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May tranquility reign and grace your Thanksgiving board this year,
As you thank the Good Lord for all the blessings you hold dear!

I pray that it...

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Adolf Hitler was the most evil of men
As evil as a human could be
Should've been hung by his you know whats
Before his killing spree

They say...

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Gullible sheep that flocked to the polls

     Were wooed by promises of lofty goals

       ...

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Would you care to flirt with something volitile?
I know a fire that burns - hot and melting
In vivid undulating ripples of heat
That will steal the...

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There've been times in my life
 where I've just had to say,
 "I must, give it all up,
 for, it's that kind of day"!
 
I...

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When did a lie become
an alternative truth?
And, is this the lesson
we wish to teach your youth?

Your reality is,
your country's full of hate.
And selling your soul...

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Now I don't have a decent job
Or expensive, flashy car
Somedays I don't brush my teeth
Or brush my beehive hair
Get my bra's from bargain bins
My coat's...

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(I'm Virgo sun/Taurus moon, both earth signs)

My sun and moon in earth means I require
a stable and terrestrial atmosphere.
As constant as the seasons, I adhere
to...

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Of the House? Really????

Paul Ryan?  Speaker of the House?
he's just John Boehner 3
Did McCarthy, really get scared off?
smells fishy,  can't you see?

Something really...

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When I was a boy I’d hike through the woods
that were living out back of my neighborhood.
I’d go down to the stream and catch a...

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Terrified moments are frozen in time 
another Black Friday inks history 
as fear gripped innocence wrenching
it ripped it from their astonished eyes 

Then lights turned...

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Could I capture time?
Seasoned beyond my hands
While consciousness raved
Traumatized before graves
Till second breath was mine.

Twilight trumpet sound
Two were as gifts long lost
I perked from waking
Yet...

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