Best Stem The Tide Poems

* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

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...oooOOO Tears of Gold OOOooo...
Prickling hot glistening tears from the eyes above
Fall in little rivulets round the nose out of pain, thoughts or love
Hot tears...

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I combed the mid-day meadows
    To find your dappled kiss
       The sweet, delicious, melting mouth
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The once was a Native American Navajo
Who served his country and to war did go.
He wrote codes by the score
Which helped end the war
But came...

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A dream that passes once is not much worthy of the pen,
but I've seen you so much more; tonight I will again. 
I want to...

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When times make me wary, where do I seek strength to carry
me through? I pray the chaos, loss, and grief won’t tarry
till all are bereft,...

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Happiness
By Franklin Price
4/7/2015
inspired by June Baker

Happiness how to define
Is your happiness the same as mine
Having things for which hell bent
Or is it just to be...

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The ill-equipped revolutionaries fought and died to set this nation free.
Against all odds they triumphed sending George's troops back across the sea!
The precious freedoms we...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXVII

IF ever I had a country proud of its wall-less porous boundary

And if ever by no mistake of...

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They keep telling me time is on my side.
But I'm not sure that time can stem the tide.
When things begin to go down south.
And life...

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Into the forest I go
To cut myself some wood;
A cabin I’ll build, 
A shelter from the cold.

I’ll build a firm foundation
Burrowed deep within the land,...

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Before I Can Cry

My heart is breaking deep inside,
Some how I must try to stem this tide.
My heart has been told many a lie,
I have...

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Monstrous Loonies in the air;
Monstrous Loonies everywhere,
Monstrous Loonies without a care;
That's our politicians!

Monstrous Loonies worldwide,
Monstrous Loonies, nowhere to hide!
Monstrous Loonies, let's stem the tide;
Of useless...

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I watch a hare race all about the woods, 
Along with children from the neighborhoods. 
Stiletto claws of hawk pounce on a mouse 
While I...

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Upper management market rushed decision:
Cold rational cost/risk measurement — 
Downsizing is the capital flow chart right way to go

Middle management under extreme personnel loss liquidity:
Short...

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