Best Sponsored Poems

(AKA - "Becca Baked My Birthday Cake")

Surprise!  Strawberry scents permeated the air.
Mountains of creamy pink lured fingertips.
Bewitching chocolate with fresh fruit inside, 
Luscious and succulent tempted watery lips.

Enlivened young children could hardly wait.
Tiny little fingers did not hesitate.
Dipping in the icing, a lip-smacking delight.
To...

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Marijuana puffs
Famed hallucinatory.
Laced with excuses.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
June 8, 2010
Poetic form:  Haiku...

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Golden-red pheasant
Glistening the morning sun,
Foraging delight....

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Love -
Treasures forever.
Hopes perpetually.
Beckons tenderly.
Delights trust; honors everlastingly.
Devotes faithfully heart soaring elating. 
Life cascading while sharing, 
Dreams embracing life enjoy.
Caressing faithfully souls serving,
 -Adoring –
Serving souls faithfully caressing,
Enjoy life, embracing dreams.
Sharing while cascading life,
Elating soaring heart faithfully devotes.
Everlastingly honors; trust delights.
Tenderly beckons.
Perpetually hopes
Forever treasures.
Love -

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Spiny stemmed buckthorn, sunlight shimmers tiny shiny leaves.
Even though in pastures you are mowed down like worthless sheaves.
Ziziphus celata, your family for thee still grieves.
Future exposure:  progress, genes raped; developments’ deeds.

1987 six populations, scientists did discover. 
This rare and most imperiled plant in Florida...

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1.  LIFE:  February (you can guess which year.)
     I came to earth as a little dear. 
     After I wailed and cried a tear.
     My mother held me very near.
2. ...

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Rondel Pain

Poetry can inflict pain like a sharp rondel dagger, 
Encircling each word with bigoted judgments on hand. 
Down a spiral staircase a poet’s thoughts may stagger. 
Semi-circular fashioned, ideas traverse memories’ span.            

Hysterical,...

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I think of you now and again
Out half a world away
On the other side of the globe
Here it’s midnight and for you midday
Somewhere on a Himalayan mountain

How can I possibly relate to your reality
Far from anything resembling a city
With no infrastructure of any kind
No cars...

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I went to the Big church night in
 saw rend colective  experiment and saw matt redman too,
and was great to worship at vineyard  with you,
I endeded us sponsoring a child,
so hope this helps her to smile
and make her life  a bit more...

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Defenders Endangered

Citizens unite spirits; choose the better part!
Life, God given, stolen by greed’s black-heart.  
Industry progressed far beyond the pushcart.
Thus, setting some selves apart as better…smart.

The endangered protecting the endangered –
Compassion fettered by solutions gartered
The courageous, methodically hindered,
Lacquered lives, wildlife “murdered”, man endangered.

Watch helplessly,...

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my porch swing smile
a cold glass of cream soda
sponsored by solace...

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I once was an open book, long ago, when naive.
Before I learned to really look and motives perceive.
But after years of hurting and living life bereaved,
I chose to find my private space…happiness achieve.

Now, as in my childhood days, I always want to know -
Each time...

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One Day of Knowing

Adam, my Adam, please come stroll with me.
Let us take another walk to the sea.
Come, my husband, the man of my dreams,
We can live forever with no blasphemes!
You named all the animals as God asked.
Eons flew past; you continued the task.
Never “alone”...

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Marriage

Beneath the moon two lovers share their dreams.
Before daylight blinds an eternity of sunbeams.

© July 12, 2010
Dane Smith-Johnsen...

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It’s Time to Take Out the Eraser

There once was a boy and his mom
They explored and had fun in their camper.
But the Everglades in June…mosquitoes!
It’s Time to take out the eraser!

There once was an avid fossil collector
Looking for shark's teeth without fear.
A great white swam...

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