Best Selected Poems

your voice now silent
never to see you smile again

you left us heartbroken
unprepared
shocked to silence

we remember
your laughter and your
“I can go on attitude”
never complaining
just being you
even when fighting
this battle

we'll never know why
you had to leave us so soon
we'll always wonder
we'll always have questions

God knew your journey...

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Hello, my most esteemed poets,

I am trying an experiment that I believe has not been done here on the PS site. I have posted a new poetry contest called "The Prismatic Self: A Gauntlet of Mirrors within the Arena.".

The JUDGES have now been selected:

1. Lin...

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 After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five of the song lyrics from my adaptation.

 1. OPENING NUMBER...

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I randomly selected you for a treat.
A delightful surprise for the meek.
It is my breaths of large you seek.
You discovered your fate of feat.
 
I brought you to a judgment seat.
And books of life you took a peek.
Then in heaven you found the leak.
Then the...

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They caught me in the library—
Reading the selected poems of,
Whoever.  When this day ends,
I feel as if someone lit a match
Inside my mouth.
When I walk down the aisles of books 
Warped with titles by authors
Of obscure names
My fingers grasp complacently
The worn bindings 
And I...

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I awake
  in a thick cropse of trees,
meandering brook splashing nearby,
sunlight stabbing
   through the canopy
in thick rods filled with dust particles.

Cracking my neck
      I rise,
my skin 
   feels like its cracking off
and as I place...

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My mom caught chicken
          in the middle of our yard
          as a goalkeeper for the selected ......

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The Party played 'Pin the Tale on the Donkey'
    That's how they came up with a senile honkey


         Reprinted with permission from 
        'Ten Greatest Political Poems...

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Softly blows the sea breeze floating on Maine coast
Lobster rests near seashell colorful pretty
Marine life oceanography exploration for
Sea grant college young students welcoming Oceania.

Sea horse small marine fish floats near
Sea butterfly marine mollusk nestling in aquarium
Oceanarium on seashore warm seas giving a
Reflection sea conveying oceangoing...

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Your Return Has Been Selected for Audit

By Elton Camp

The government letter that Joe read
Every taxpayers so much does dread

“Your return, for audit, has been picked.”
Joe is certain that, by the IRS, he’s licked

Tax advice he accepted from his brother
But wishes he’d listened to some other

“There’s...

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I feel my muscles
   cord up with tension ,
  can almost hear them creak
in the strain.
Lumbering over
  I lean in close,
he seems
    on the verge of passing out
face white as paste
and he flinches as my breath 
 ...

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28)  "Am I a God near at hand," says the LORD, "And not a God far off?" Can anyone
        hide himself in secret places, So that I shall not see him," Says the LORD; "Do I
 ...

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Detected and Selected

Did understand that an error was detected;
Some other personality should be selected;
Could be at odds;
Created by gods;
Sure hope some day mine can be corrected.

Jim Horn...

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I have over 400 comic books
with groupings of
Wolverine, Dead Pool, Doctor Strange,
Carnage, Moon Knight, Spider-Man,
Godzilla, Batman, Hellboy, Spawn,
Captain America and Ghost Rider
so who do I select to follow and read the most
yes, it would certainly be the Red Skull
so why would I select this man...

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Selected Politicians

You voted
You mean it

Now not
Represented

Impeach 
Them, yes

All the
Demos

All the Repubs
And yes 
Independs

None spent
Time with
Their constituents

Voters
Careless

Vote for
Them

Let them
In

Vote for
For me

I am
Freed literary

Vote for
Them

Someone
Wins

The ballot
Box stuffed

Got voted
Out

Complains
Promises

No one
Honors them

A vote
For me

Sets you
you free

All's left
Is to

Impeach
Me

Selected 
Politicians

 
12/06/17
by James Edward Lee Sr....

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