Best Smattering Poems

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My love for you
is beyond prophecy or endowment
and lay before you a love letter from the heart
beneath the moonlight's glow
where our eyes find a silent understanding
that embraces each passi......

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...If I write down words
that pour from me like
water rushing from a rusty gutter
carrying my cries in the flood
with decaying leaves and
the smattering off the roof
of droppings from so many
pro......

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...My love for you
is beyond prophecy or endowment
and lay before you a love letter from the heart
beneath the moonlight's glow
where our eyes find a silent understanding
that embraces each passion......

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...Whenever my emotions are gathered pain side 
down, a smattering of silent, shallow, cobweb shadows 
wear me as woe’s weighty gown atop clouds blind 
to rainbows where naught is wrought......

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...Did you tire of one President's lecturing and preaching?
Do you cringe at another's tweets, his lechery and "leechering?"

Then as George W Bush Jr's term fades from the annals of recency
Let us ......

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...If Summer were a color
Then it might be yellow-green—
Turned amber by the breath of fall,
Of the seasons in between.

And if Autumn were a color 
Would it not be orange, or red?
A smattering o......

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...“January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.”
—Sara Coleridge

Winter Magic

Something wholly bright
outside my window. What a sight!
Crisp, fallen, new.
Oh! ......

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...My time has come... my time has come
To rise and meet the day.
In hope the woe that follows me
Has been lost and gone astray.
As I have a desperate need to make amends
To burnish up my life.
An......

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...What I like about you is your look of surprise
The smattering of sunlight on your white gem face
The wistful expression when your heart is in that other place.
There is not a single fleck of color......

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...(One of my rare attempts at macaronic writing--the reasons for it may be found in the context of the poem.  Only a smattering of knowledge of Spanish is needed)

Madre de Dios! Morning already?
The m......

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...Now the sun and the sand were treacherously hot
    and not a place for Man or a Beast.
As you must be audaciously quick to find a good spot
    or you will number among the desert's deceased.

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	Black people get no respect
And we never will get it,
	if we ain’t got it yet
The white man doesn’t truly consider us a threat,
we’re the best peace loving people
	he coulda ever met......

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...Countdown to Armageddon precariously hinges 
   potential apocalypse outcome, mere smattering days away
if the brazen, fierce-some dragon doth don 
   trumps presidential throne - 
   ships with ......

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...The tinkerer and his tool kit
turned a tarnished old key
which wound forgotten wheels
rusted and bound and…

A little oil should do,
a slight smattering of grease
perhaps, is all it will take
......

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...My Big Dreams
sleep on the wings of saints.
They become vaporous
and airborne 
colliding with 
baptismal raindrops 
balancing themselves
on a million
patterned snowflakes 
to only then slip,......

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