Best Shiny Poems

I put my thumb up while the thoughts of darkness came and went
In each person's life there may be sorrow and defeat
You see a little angel lonely, left and confused

The joy is so delicious and grief is lonely
We just have to taste what's coming,
something is...

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Shiny the Sunbeam
Was a Summer sunshine rose
With a visor hat and a ruddy glow
And sunglasses on his nose

Shiny the Sunbeam
Is radiation they say
He was made of a UV 
But all the adults see
Is their tan on holiday

There must have been some magic in
That new lotion...

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Let me hold you one more time before you go
Next time we meet , is a time that we don't know
Let me hold you once again , before you spread your wings to fly
Only God knows what will happen to me after this goodbye
Allow me...

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I am a shiny penny
just minted, brand-new
You'll find me in pockets
of shoppers like you

My value's dropped
as some've stopped
carrying cash at all; now
as passe as 'cruising the mall'

But there still is one place
where I can yet shine --
on the innocent face 
of a kid under nine

He...

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Once upon a shiny polished day, the sun shone bright as golden ray
and in the park where the children played the puppies danced ballet 
The kittens meowed from their outdoor yum cafe 
and the birds chirped from the trees while they surveyed 
the pretty ducklings...

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Shiny red apples

Perfect in form

Are only found

In the grocery store

Never oh never

Growing on your tree

Real life is

Nothing like that

Small and green

With little red

This is how

Real life is

Perfection sought

Is rarely found

And makes us think

Something is wrong

Looking for something

That is mostly not there

We over look the real

Around...

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Mama ate her collard greens with raw onions, pinching a 
morsel of greens with sweet cornbread, as juicy pork 
neckbones lay naked of meat. 

The sweetness of life, like sweet Kool Aid fills our tummies,
while dishes await scrapes of scraps for the family pet; Tuffy.
A...

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I will buy me a shiny car
Along the way, along the way...
I will buy many things.

I will love me a shiny ring
Along the way... along.
I will love me solitaire.

I will love me my memories
And sing and sing, but
To no one except me.

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3/4/2015

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Edina's life story is worthy of being told with sympathy, 
she was a refugee from worn-torn Kosovo breathing
an air frosted by the harsh wind of January;
she escaped from an abusive father named Bojan
when her town was burned down towards morning,
but that horrifying image is worse...

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"What's your story?"
she questions,
"you seem interesting."

wildflower eyes
                                      ...

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A shiny pebble laying,
two buffoons nearby;
...a mild concussion....

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Do you believe it, the predicted high tomorrow is 90
This is Canada, the frozen north, not taking this too kindly
Moderation is our norm
This blip will transform
This country into a sweatbox and our skin will get shiny


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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 Shiny Things

Our whole lifelong we hunger strong for shiny things,
the pain of glory, gain, and wealth’s monopoly.
We have to know we won the bow, the choicest ring,
tossing aside hungry pride, to live happily.

Young girls with curls and pearls know passion’s intense fire.
While purer hearts...

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Rise up from the depths
twisting, gasping on the sandy shore
glistening into final rest...

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Black, Shiny Shoes.  
The EU dictatorship has crushed Hellas Germany and the banks won- 
The French to their helped the Greeks writing a new tax system and 
for once the tycoons have to pay tax as well and for the Hellenic 
people they need...

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