Best Substitutions Poems

What I miss:

The scents of fancy foods and good intent
The hugs of friends at church and sinners' lament
Foods we share on celebration Sunday, rest in my chair
Sometimes I think this whole situation totally unfair

Substitutions I like:  

Riding down to Flint River, a sliver of...

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Many a hunger goes unfed.
Some adjust and live with it,
finding satisfaction in suitable activities.
Others push that hunger down, deeper and deeper,
filling the empty hole inside themselves
with dangerous addictions that take the place
for what they hunger for.

Starved for the attention or love
they never received as children,
voracious...

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What a name called? 
Football a game called, 
To known arena called stadium, 
Played eleven to eleven side to side each, 
Formations of it kinds, 
Aims of a two goal post net, 
Aims of a trophy, 
Aims of winning, 
In a color Jersey of its...

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Wasted landscapes without proper tenureship
Evicting the true owners from their habitats
Tensions between the economic and survival
Leached sands, eroded banks of stewardship
Artificial substitutions and the phobia of bats
Nature besieged by ignorance and the political
Denude of forests, wetlands, and pollute the seas
So producers and consumers are soon...

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Ladies and Gents, 

I come bearing full my compense, 

For all of my misgivings causing reader repents, 

Upon further review, 

the message I was trying to construe, 

at times crossed over boundaries that originate in the pew, 

Fortwith presently I swear, 

forswearing manner seen debonair,...

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Texting

A lament of texting.
I regret the suplantation of
Conversation with  random
Truncations of thought and 
Ideas into texting

As if a few thumb prints on 
A “key board”  were 
Satisfactory substitutions
For actual communication!
Talking involves randomly synchronized
Exchanges of phrases, 
One layered upon or bouncing
Against another.

Real worlds ...

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I grow increasingly challenged
to discern where my innocent thoughts
hopes and fears
challenges and victories begin
where others more wisely end.

I feel wrong to publish thoughts
under just my name
built on shoulders,
plodding feet,
sleight of hands
and great transitional feats
reminding me through Others.

Yet to credit Them
for my creolizing creations,
with solid integrity...

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Living layers of being tugged around scraps of lusterless metal shape the man who was
Or is it the other way around
He can not tell anymore
Improvements or subpar substitutions
He marches on despite his contemplation
The clang and tang of metal on metal echo from his right leg...

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Young Love

No electrical violations
Of Human sensations
That are only for relations
Between man and woman

But, kinetical substitutions
That have passed through evolutions
Will be allowed....

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I don’t always know the road to take
Many times, I feel like a plain fake
I don’t always know just what to pray
So that God’s grace will not delay
I don’t always know how to give praise
Even though His love will always amaze

My heart is not as...

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being treated for fructose spasms
during one of the last movies on Earth
after the great Enema of 2012
when the heaters were on high
the authorities were called in
but his claims were all backed up
by the logic of chimes and daggers
creatures of comfort unite
you have nothing to lose...

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Supreme queen, I see you in my dreams 
Fast asleep with dreams wide awake 
The sways of your curvature causes massive head turns 
From the moment you entered my life, I was gone 
Supreme queen, I see you in my dreams 
Flamboyant actions rock me...

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My new year resolutions are solutions for the soul
My changing evolutions for a lack of self-control
My ready revolutions for a day of liberty
Are heady substitutions for the way I wish to be

Number one is living for the lover in my life
The fun I may discover...

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Shades of Grey
Julie Ann Saavedra
1-9-2010
I don’t like to compromise
I hate the shades of gray
The unrelenting shadows
That never go away
I wish my world was black and white
And all the world around
I wish I had the answers
I wish I was profound
If I was mathematical
The answers never vary
Yet...

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We are here we are now
We are forever
We are many We Are more

We are watching 
We are one 
We are moon We are sun

We replenish the diminished 
We direct those that reflect
We reject them that disrespect 

We protect those that 
Manifest our intellect with
Interest We...

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