Best Smolder Poems

I have a safe life
We all want safe
Get a little job
Pay a little bill
With just a little paycheck
That will never be enough to buy
Freedom

We play at freedom
Convinced that we have no chains
Only to find in the quiet moments
That life is chains
And that is the secret
We...

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The country's crazy, out of whack somehow
There's a new 'Republic' in Seattle now
Young folks are calling to defund police
A fury in the streets that will not cease...
They scream their slogans, every day the same
For 'racial justice,' -- it's an age-old game
'Cos no one really thinks...

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I love when it’s colder;
put on two pork shoulders,
the size of small boulders,
to smoke and to smolder.
(three if I’d been bolder)
It is a true soldier,
but likely won’t hold her.
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Olden knowledge should smolder
As smoke rising from an ember -
Universal but not common -
Peculiar but not forgotten.
Tell me of those days of yore -
Of circumstances transpired -
So I can repeat on my lips
That which slumbers in silence....

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