Best Slices Poems

For a slice of splash
From the yellow and green sky
Through a chance window
Both you and I lie in wait
Sands of our blue time restless 
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20/10/2016...

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Touching hearts - did I just call him a ham, her a turkey,
another a chicken, as I directed them with smiles, my
humor-filled wiles. I resurrect, as I’m directed to hand
out love. This makes me generous…I generously give life,
not eternity…directing the elderly…I’m at the fringe,
to pick...

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LEMON SLICES

rivulets of condensation drip down
the sides of tall glasses-- iced water
lemon slices flavour refreshing reflections...

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I want to eat
cheesy down home goodness 
I want to be mozzarella vegan great 
to eat the best flavors right off 
a non-dairy plate 

but, honest finance 
has told me so 
I will never know 
vegan in this price range

I could stretch out my dough...

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A little brown river, 
Naked children splashing in its muddy waters,
Their mirth and laughter of raucous delight,
Untroubled by foresight.

A tiny hut made of mud,
Parching in the dazzles of the ruthless sun,
The bent figure of a farmer as he nurtures
The field of paddy that his simple...

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slices of deep night

cut through heart's embittered walls---

Dove's light passes by



Haiku On Enlightenment Contest
For: Marvin Celestial
Daniel Port...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy
leafless boughs;"
                        Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Earth Rips different
Not like cloth

 tearing, sharp, painful sounds
Thicker cloth nêe bursts
baritone harshness

Ripping...

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We never knew witches were real.
Until you flashed your fingertip fire.
Across our motherless cheeks and into our lives. 

We needed quilts of compassion and support.
You offered only endless task and unbridled welt retort.  

Now you're old and retired the broom and the belt.
Though your...

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She straightens as she sifts though shells
a parlotry of hollow bells
aside from the ocean that heaves and swells
these are the sounds she holds in her hands.

She shivers in the midnight air
the silver salt on each strand of hair
her heart released from every care
and the toll...

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A new tomato burst 
beneath a blade, its juice 
streaking my wrist,  
mimicry of something I swore off  
years ago.  
Seeds scatter like liquid mercury 
across the cutting board,  
smallest of reminders that life spreads  
even if it’s cut short,...

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Everybody has a slice of profound
from the village idiot to the killer clown
but do you have the patience 
to pluck the nuggets from the turd
after all everyone wants and needs to be heard
listen to the idiot ramble-between the babble
he may have the cure for war-cancer...

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Once there were millions.
Now there are billions.
Once there were kings.
Now there are councils.
Once there was ignorance. 
Now knowledge abounds.
Once there was poverty.
Now comfort for most.
Once there was war.
Now there is peace.
Once there were traditions.
Now there are systems.

Our relative power is slipping away.
Even as we all...

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Underneath the hard tough bark of a tree
Is a porous heart
Underneath my canopy of memory
Things fall apart

The sun drops rivers of blood on wounded skies
The silver sheen of sea
The odor of the drowned carcasses denies
O let it be

Lazarus came form the dead to die again
From...

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In front of your birthday cake, you divide your life into slices,
and each slice bears a face, etched with the marks of the time it belongs to.
A knife on the platter is your portion, sharp edges cutting the icing
so gently, like your skin, that you...

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Food Lion is charging about four bucks for three small watermelon slices.
It really ticks me off when I see these high prices.
An entire watermelon only costs six bucks.
Charging four dollars for three slices really sucks.
It makes more sense to buy a whole watermelon for only...

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