Best Shoring Up Poems

Did I say What I said You said

You said looking a little forlorn
						a little redundant
	the contradicting crosses in your eyelashes
   thrusting forth the brazen prophet in you for the day
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Twenty-five  ©

25 seconds: the time it 
takes to fall in love…. 

25 minutes: into rehearsal 
we have our first kiss…. 

25 hours: I am dreaming of
you…. 

25 days: I know it is just the 
beginning…. 

25 weeks: we are having 
“make up” sex…. 

25...

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Twenty-five 

25 seconds: the time it 
takes to fall in love…. 

25 minutes: into rehearsal 
we have our first kiss…. 

25 hours: I am dreaming of
you…. 

25 days: I know it is just the 
beginning…. 

25 weeks: we are having 
“make up” sex…. 

25 months:...

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IF YOU THINK YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE…

   “A quiet and modest life,” says he in German, the most successful of them/us all, “brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.”

         Albert...

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The gilded flower grows astride the spring,
sweet with rain from the demise of the ice.
For every inch that hope grows, greed grows twice.
Intoxicated by the thrill, they sing,
And pay without thought for their wedding ring. 
Such opportunity seen, as cold melts.
Ambitions reborn and lines spelt,
to...

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                                  The fear of...

      being thought of...

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Limericks dé-crochetés: Is not shame self-humiliation

Is not shame self-humiliation
To be thought of with condescension
   All men know some disgrace
   Except those without grace
Dignity’s the art of pretension

The man who fears not leaving this world
E’en without heir his name can fame mould
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Warrior Wombs
(for Sandy and the loss of our first grandson)
By Joyce Teed
2/8/17

Warrior Wombs
Every woman
Has an untold story
A secret
Untold
Or unseen
Her story
Includes
Silent sorrows
Wounds with no words
Winding through the untold 
History of all women
Empty wombs
Miscarriages
Mistimed pregnancies
Unwanted babies
Wanted babies 
wished for babies 
babies without a heartbeat
Nature’s
way
Of weeding out
The mistakes

A...

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In the puddles of our loving, tender life
There goes a dynamic of going along
Path exciting but some tears are made from strife
Which creates shallow puddles within the throng
Outside looking in, the heart beats of great love
Shoring up a delight, just like a white dove
Reflections of...

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~ and though reeling ~
~ amid the hour ~ 
~ of my dolor, I ~
~ still could not ~ 
~ concur with ~
~ those who ~
~ say "Passion ~
~~ is all together ~~
~ fruitless", because ~
~ mindful of this I know ~ 
~~~~ the acrimonious of ~~~~
~~~ heart...

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Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that  I am  ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flaccid noon,
the minimal load  burdensome midpoint idle tranquil saunter,
meteorological forecasts  couched in plausible  penetrating atmospheric vocabulary, 
nebulous...

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To claim more imperialist Russian land. 
An invasion of a neighbor was planned. 
Unbacked slander was said about them. 
Creating for the world a major problem. 
Putin claimed they were a pro-Nazi harbor. 
But the truth really couldn’t be any farther. 
Ukrainians have always been...

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~ Though reeling ~
~ amid the hour ~ 
~ of my dolor, I ~
~ still could not ~ 
~ concur with ~
~ those who ~
~ say "Passion ~
~~ is all together ~~
~ fruitless", because ~
~ mindful of this I know ~ 
~~~ the acrimonious of...

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A man had two horses, each a fine stallion, both buddies and good friends. It so happened, one of them lost eyesight in an accident. For the safety of the blind horse, the owner fixed some copper bells on the neck of the other horse....

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Fast asleep in a reclining chair, woke from slumber, by crashing thunder
Suddenly the lights go out and the TV flickers in and out
Darkness comes about, silence of the TV seems to just shout
Dazed and confused, looking for a source of light to use
Stumbling all about...

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