Best Stayed Poems

Cheerily blew ocean breeze in beach-park
Till fiery tides climbed bouncing giant rock
Spurred on by the churning clouds hosting dark
As hazy winds ravaged paths on your walk
Rattling lashing gust where fishing boats dock.
Stranger were we, till blinding storm hit blast
Pouring pelting rain on our budding talk,
Waddling...

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This Christmas Eve will be over soon,
Vixen and Cupid are over the moon;
Santa, Dasher and Dancer,
Ate baked beans with old Prancer,
Poor, Donner and Blitzen are in a swoon.

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December 22, 2015

Limerick

For the contest, Limerick,
Sponsor, Jan Allison

First Place...

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Southerly breeze at my back
   Curlicue clouds in the sky
Folks sport sunny smiles
   A privilege to be alive

It's Spring after Christmas
   A treat for body and soul
Santa's stayed on in Chicago
   Why rush back to the North...

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The karmic wheel turned
to a world torn and burned
by war and lust and greed
and this Incarnations' need
to Love.

Tentatively, the teen reached out
(from the childs' abuse and doubt)
to the grown-up herd
and the curious word
said to be ... Love ...
which led to a merry-go-round
a wheel of names...

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I’ve seen them: humungous stumps of once gigantic trees
 that made a forest sacred-
knowing it was men that lopped off such magnificence

Stealers of beauty and promise:
these amputations leave their scars
 on  the convolutions of mankind’s
collective brain

Where, if I could 
I would venture back in...

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Through the good times, and the bad.
Even through the troubled times we had.
You stayed with me..

You gave me everything.
A life of love you gave to me.
You stayed with me..

In search of paradise.
You saved up all those dreams you had.
You stayed with me..

You comforted me with...

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Do you recall being in school?
Learning many lessons;
obeying all of the rules;
absorbing each lecture and each page
of your textbook;
adding to your storehouse of wisdom.

If you stayed and finished school, you were wise;
It always pays to stay in school.
As you build your own life’s book,
You’ll learn...

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Tried to stay in Dream Weavers world ,silenced alarm
     Back to dream weavers sow
     Hour late for work, I'm a charm
     Freeway flat tire, rain and snow

     Clothes soaking...

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You said every word you ever said to me
And I swallowed them out of curtesy.
But I can no longer take the pain,
My weight has gained,
under your blame.
And you said that I destroyed you,
So now I wonder why YOU stayed?

The abuse of you was always silent,
But...

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Lights out, lights out!in the run about, the critte
            rs flee to me. Storm, blazing lightening, air too w
             arm  My...

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For my friend Angela Rickaway

She Stayed Strong

Overwhelming feelings should make her heart go weak
Facing cancer head on with no sound of a shriek
She stands firm planted in true love
SHE STAYED STRONG
Knowing that her strength comes from Above
Her beautiful eyes so ever baby blue bold
I’m sure...

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SPOKEN BROKEN WITH MY HEART MIND STAYED ON GOD ON ALL OCCASIONS

Lord I need you I need the more of you 
I need to place you more to be in the center of my life 
My every fiber my every being needs to be...

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Stayed at Home Instead

For a while in salt water we would splash
After that lay down and start to crash
End up dreaming of the many things
Which to us joy and happiness brings.

Then we later had to leave the beach
Pelicans and seagulls as they screech
Waves forming and...

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Harold the Coward was a famous cowboy in the old west
Stayed away from gunfights, with living he was obsessed
Enjoyed breathing air
Happy to be still there
Waking up every morning wearing his bulletproof vest


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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What if we'd met at Jackson Memorial in the neonatal ward,
Placed ever so gently, side by side, facing the outside world?
And our parents and relatives and friends they had
Giggled thru an over sized window
And waved and pointed and cooed at us,
Two tiny babies in little...

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