Best Spoke Poems

WAIT!

the poet laughed
there's love to document
there's passion, there's hate!

WAIT!

where's my pen, my typer? 
my life is my art

Living passed by and the world did it's thing, rotating, tilting, and changing
but the poet sat idle, conjuring thought 
he dreamt aloud, awake 
of simple times
he drank
he smoked,...

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While I stood in line
In a pastry shop
Ahead of me was a -
Homeless woman
She stared at the selection
Inside the showcase
Deciding her choice
We chatted in line
She said" Life is hard
to beg for some coins"
She bought a hot drink
Then a small snack
So before she left
I heard her...

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The fear of her looks
Became thorns in her side
Her images were shattered
Because the mirrors decide

This beautiful girl
Who sees a different face
She hears the world laughing
No matter where she is in place

In her bedroom at home
She faces her demons alone
Unknown to her family
For years she has...

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….And no one spoke…

protecting all about them from
the perception of impropriety,
insensitivity, misunderstanding

…and no one looked…

shielding their eyes lest their gaze
be taken as an affront to the fashion
choices of a passerby, an insult to
the sanctimonious clerics wardrobe,
an assault on the personal space of
a nearsighted Neanderthal.

…and no...

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Then spoke our Lord upon the scene
in a world of sheep gone astray.
His talk is truth, somewhat pristine
for thoughtless people of the day.

A taxman listened from a tree; 
then spoke our Lord upon the scene
“Zacchaeus, come on down, I’m free.”
Inviting himself was not mean.

For Christ,...

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Listening to sweet melodies
sung on a gentle breeze
Dancing in the cosmos on 
this chilled winters eve
Gazing at the beauty, up in 
the night skies
Knowing starlights twinkle 
shown in your eyes

Breathless whispers echo of 
something so brand new
Telling of two hearts glistening 
in the morning dew...

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She looks up at big brother
She looks up at the sky
"You can't even reach the stars
So how in the world will I?"

He kneels down by his sister
And drops his voice down low
"Do you want to hear a secret?
But only you and I can know"

Her eyes...

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He Spoke

Carried about by the storm of emotion,
Over a wild and boundless ocean,
My heart was like a ship at sea,
And no one cared to rescue me.

Or, so it seemed, until I met,
A Man that I shall ne'er forget,
He spoke, the Master spoke to me,
And life...

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I spoke to a tree
last night; while
I sat on my garden 
chair – snug and
warm in the late
summer's air;

we spoke, of course,
of full, green branches
about to divest themselves
of veined leaves and nests,
and the feathered breasts

who will soon fly south
letting the old limbs rest,
well earned for...

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Spoke to a cloud today – 
the usual conversation
about shape and size, 

lows and highs...whether
my need to tote a handy, spring
loaded umbrella...or a better chance
to go without pants, dance
on the beach ~ showing off
thighs, widening sockets
of older generational eyes – he 
told me of clouds...

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This feeling, it's always intangible
never retrievable when you're in need
It's salt on the skin of the girl you're within
It's thoughts which preceed every deed.

It's auras of color which only some see
and some bump right into and pass
It's the sound of one's voice which cuts into...

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I spoke of love one summer’s day
           when words of love came out to play

I sighed, for how sweet it would be
             ...

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I pulled my aching body
Outside to get Vitamin D
The beauty of my back yard
Filled me with jubilee

And as I turned up my face
To soak up each golden ray
I heard strange sweet voices
That added joy to my day

And the sun spoke to me
As he blazed down...

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I was in 4th grade - when most kids are 9 or 10 years old.  Not yet to the semi-adulthood of the teenage years, and not just "little kids" anymore, either.  You might do a little cursing, acting in front of your friends,...

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He said get it NOW!
Don't say another word
SIT down and be still
Don't open your mouth
Don't even look at me

I responded.......

I went for it as fast as I could and dropped it on him
I said more than another word
I mummered with my mouth closed as loud...

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