Best Stick Poems

My name is Devi, a foolish name really for it means Angel, and I certainly am not. The city of Phnom Penh had been our home, father was a professor at The Royal University. I was their only child. I was just getting ready for...

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My Dad taught me to drive stick
On warm Sunday mornings while Chicago slept
Before the church people left and returned
On a freeway still under construction
Past yellow barricades and
Caution signs
Recklessly cautious
Without benefit of power steering
And power brakes
We flew past run down homes
And new skyscrapers
We owned the road
The...

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( On backdrop of current JAPAN tragedy. 
Dedicated to all who lost lives and property in worst devastation ever. 
Our sincere prayers for their salvation, succour to surviving victims, early rehabilitation)

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima
Nuclear destination, bombing and self-explosion
Human rant, God is just name for chant
Reign...

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A old tree branch that had fallen to the ground
                 Polished it up, mended all the cracks, looking good as new
        ...

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Wednesday night, hard at work
We strove to get the paper out;
Our goal to met the deadline
And secure the daily routes.

But then an accident occurred,
A case of slice and dice and dread.
A finger slipped, now padded tip
Was hanging by a thread.

Unable to stop the flow of...

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stick together      people
the elites 
are gleaning power
from the seeds of misery garden

they're dividers of the masses
nothing more-nothing less

they smother smiles - voices.. happiness
wishing
to keep us in our safe-less spaces
for eternity.

every media outlet is brimming with
half-truthers-distorters-liars
phallic symbols for political parties
erect with...

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There is a big Eucalyptus tree right behind where I live
The trunk is large, with the branches straight and long
When the Arizona Sun is blazing down, makes nice shade
Even when branches die, they still have more to give
At sunset, a breeze will blow through the...

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old woman with stick 
                                    love's wisdom smiles with wrinkles...

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I tossed a stick up in the air
To watch it fly around
I waited for that stick to fall
Before me on the ground

It must have been a special stick
That did not make a sound
For when I searched the ground ahead
That stick could not be found

I never...

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If lipstick's not
  for lips that need glue

then we can kiss
  and still break up too...

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I wish I were more like stick people
     They don’t have hearts that break
They don’t know the pain of loving
                 They can’t feel what’s at...

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My sister is very thin
In fact she’s a stick insect
Straight up and down
Viewed from any aspect
If she didn’t wear glasses
Before embracing
No one would know
Which way she was facing...

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"Louis!",she calls out.
Yes,ironically I am the namesake.
A signboard-Please don't hurt me.I'm blind.

"Are you lost in thought again?
You and your stupid world!"
My stupid world.
I see her bite her tongue in my mind.
A smile on my lips.

"I am so happy today!
Won't you ask why?"
"Need I?"
Laughter.Sameness.Bliss.
Such conversations are...

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There was an old man who lived in Maine,
           Everyday he would complain of pain,
           Pestered everyone
        ...

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Dozy Dick and his Magic Stick it comes to life at night
Takes him to a world of joy and pure delight

Transports him to a place he really wants to be
Of inner dreams and pleasure and every fantasy

With his magic stick Dick can travel far and...

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