Best Slippage Poems

Sliding into a crater
of emotion,
Current stronger than 
the Mighty Ocean,
Gravity of Love
Falling, falling...

What a wonderful
slippage is this,
If I lied I would be remiss,

I may not...

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a case of slippage.
where is real sanity
in rehearsed living
befuddled thoughts
search to hunt it down
it is somewhere
somewhere close
smell it, feel it, imagine it
yet you cannot describe...

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"Nothing my hide from the hidden."

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4.

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It is mid-week again,
and the incremental fines
imposed upon the clock
toll as a bell ringing down.

There is slippage in these transactions
that cannot be undone,
while yesterdays glories
are...

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I'm continuing to read Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
although now with Antonio Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the [WinWin Creolizing-Bilateral] Conscious Brain."

Right now,
Dr....

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I remember Buster outside the old post office.
He was selling newspapers but mostly just giving you a smile. 
Ol Felix's tamales 
Were the best ones...

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like vinegar and baking soda combined
daily hustle bustle and grind — in caustic silence —
erodes...  

precious time eroded in the rush to clear agendas
rushing...

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Lusty

Cleavage
Slippage
Savage
Courage
Evening quest, cleavage, slippage, sought.
Eager to look, savage, courage, wrought.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 16, 2010
Poetic form: Tyburn...

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ONE-WAY  TICKET


Whoever wrote the adage  -
Stone walls do not  a prison make nor iron bars a cage  -
Obviously never spent a...

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We have it all
Indeed we do,
    both me and you.
The scandal crawling beneath the sheets,
     outrageous claims shouted...

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Squared shoulders sporting a feathered hat,
She sure-stepp’d through the mud without slippage.
Caring not a whit that she stopped both
Horse carriage and his beating heart. ...

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Volatile this old dude can sometimes be
People overreact to the minor slippage they see
Still cruising along
Singing life's song
Not perfect but still climbing life's majestic tree...

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Beyond the wave-sacked,
lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug
by the claws of scaly thrashers.

Here they huddle, my blood kin
flogging grim pleasures,
wolfing eggy sandwiches,
dipping tea-stained teeth into...

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Beyond the wave-sacked,
lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug
by the claws of scaly thrashers.

Here they huddle, my blood kin
flogging grim pleasures,
wolfing eggy sandwiches,
dipping tea-stained teeth into...

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