Best Short List Poems

The day I turned the big 5 0
My friends all said to me
You got to make a Bucket List 
Of things to do and see

So,...

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These are a few poets I love and greatly adore
Just a short list, there are so many more
Wordsworth writes praising beautiful nature
You can't find many...

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Sheer boredom has me at this torpid end
Another rerun; please give me a break 
The short list of scripts to which they pretend 
I simply...

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Here comes another Christmas 
a season full of cheer
And even though you’re gone
I close my eyes and feel you near
 
I don’t need much for...

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Here is a short list of life's many stories. If we take the time and slow down and notice, there are stories going on around...

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Who will listen to my story?
It's not a tale of great defeat
nor one of fame, nor one of glory --
and I won't pretend that it's...

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[A short List]

Weeds, 
with roots reaching  for China.
Poison Ivy, 
hidden among the blossoms.

Wasps, 
perching above, to dive bomb 
as you walk through a door.

Mole...

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I don't drain my bank account each and every Christmas
Only the ones who are close to me are on my short list
I get bombarded by...

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"The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness" 

When the crime 
was committed,
the writing 
was already on the wall,

no one listened. 
It climbed insidiously
out through the cracks
like...

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What is your job?
Making me laugh
Yes!
It is ordained
You are to make another person happy
What? You say you can't make another person happy?
Are you dead?
If you...

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Ever wonder where big ideas come from?

Memories of FDR
from newsreel clips -
a lion-headed striking man
with rakish grin,
jaw jutting proudly, 
signature cigarette holder
clenched in his teeth
tilted...

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David the First

In an old photo
I’m being bathed by a boy
   looking quite bashful. . .
the first young man to hold me -
my...

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…Nothing Stays the Same…

Five billion years of age has our planet
And it has changed each and every year.
Atmospheres have enveloped the Earth
And three times…have disappeared.
…changes…!
First...

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It is a cold road to my mother’s house.
I have driven it hundreds of times and each time it seems to get colder.
I have cranked...

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Things I Almost Always Daily Do

1. Wake up on time; don’t be a sleepy head.
2. Grab the food I’ll eat at work (unless it is...

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