Best Simpleton Poems

Loves he the soul, the unexpressed
                     also the press with grounds and water boiled
hot, steeping for minutes one, two, three,
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Silly is as silly does
Silly as can be
If silliness means innocent
It's what I want to be...

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Naïveté


It is cold; sea spray painted the ship white, 
light green is the Nordic water 
a mighty cocktail of clinking ice cubes. 
I scratch a happy face on thick glass on
The porthole, we will dock at a place 
where warm people sits around a fire and 
give a damn about sailor’s miserable life. 
Seascape paintings...

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The simpleton just wanted love
the smart man found insulting.
That the wise man said to live with love
would bring them peace exalting....

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I ponder
A purpose
Beneath the furnace
A sentence 
Of silence
You desert us
In question
Soul confession
You didn’t mention
Your intention
I remember when
I could have been
Something more than this
The possibility
Of loyalty
Crooked hands
Hold the strings
Sewn in self
Yarn of conscience
Thread of me
Placid tranquility...

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I pray upon my Knees 
I believe what I Believe 
I don’t care what anyone says 
My faith is Strong 
What’s written is Written 
If only on whispering wafers of Paper 
Or in Stone, or sketched in Clay 
Most likely, on my Heart
Is what I Say...

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don’t make fun of me,
I’m only a foppotee,
with a flair for art...

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