Best Secondhand Poems

Second Hand Shoe

Bright and new, Stitching over and through, Not sure of your journey but inner confidence beams through.
Boxed off and brave, And now it begins, A lifetime of wonder, Or a lifetime of sins.

Looking ahead full of bravado and grace, Soon filled with warmth,...

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it was almost midnight and we

with our fingers laced around Marlboro beyond blue cigarettes

were staring out the window

which was open so that our guilt and smoke could escape on the wind

and we wouldn’t get caught....

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"Long has My grace been proffered
Long has intercession been offered
Short is My space for repentance
'On my terms!' frames their resistance

'Tis not I who needs to change
Defying My terms will estrange
Worship Me in spirit and truth
Stop treating My words as uncouth

My Vineyard I designed to produce
But...

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. for public domain

[ Hey, man! New threads? ]

Tomorrow morning,
I jump into a new pair of pants.
They're not fancy,
not pressed and sleek,
like pants Fred Astaire would wear to dance.

They're not so new.
They're second hand, but not worn so thin
that they feel pansy.
The thread's not weak
like...

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