Best Straggling Poems

As summer has briskly bowed and left,
The air has become crisp and moist. 
Sky is clear, the wispy clouds straggling here and there!
The evening’s weak...

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Rife with abstractions, and still just listening;
Leaning on pages, the night keeps glistening.
Ripping at seams, no intentions of fixing
As leaks spring up in the darkness...

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I picked the house whilst floating down
After travelling to this country town
The air from the house was delicious
As the shouting voices raised were so vicious

The...

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How foolish

Humans seem to be 

When

The Good Lord has provided them

With

Whatever it takes to become unique

They

Instead are desperately straggling

To

Resemble someone else!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
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Rugby SCRUM* DANCE for Divorced and Dis-abused Wedding Guests

(Packs made up of eight « players » (see note below) may be formed indifferently : either...

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As the light dims and dances on the horizon
A menace stirs from its slumber, slinks from the shadows.
The game move to and fro, staying sit...

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Pounding seas, wind tossed spray
Cold North wind, blowing night and day
The ice gripping men in disarray
The convoy ploughing onward

The merchant vessels, shadows in mist,
Weave and...

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The humble arch, so simple, so profound, so powerful
                ...

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Ripped out love.
Not nearly enough
Threads hanging left,
To connect.
Too many tears wept.
To repair me now,
Yank the rest out;
No evidence allowed.
Pull the straggling ends,
Till I’m empty again.


2/3/12
For...

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Hail Mary, full of grace,
               the Lord is with you.
The Lord...

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Wow, look, we can save $500!

I wonder how much we must invest
to generate this savings.

Oh, I see.
We need only buy a new or used car,
which,...

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The fading ancient sun casts long shadows before me,
as I shuffle slowly and sluggishly down asymmetrical lanes.
How age mellows me like ripe watermelon, squeezing me
until...

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Imagination simply staggers with its grandeur
The beautiful, ever-changing sight on earth
Enveloped the earth in its colourful panorama
Golden glow announces the dawn in the east,
In the...

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No bird perch on high boughs,
Merrily are straggling they,
As Spring invades the bay.

Across the azure sky,
High and high the blithe birds fly,
Nowhere a cry or...

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Staying by the sea, now at sunset
With the light slowly fading into greyness
And the waters lying quiet
A peace fills me as never before

Dismal fears barred...

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