Best Swore Poems

I grew up shooting pool and dancing on the bar
 Mama said with enough buise anyone could be a star
 Daddy was in the back room chasin' skirts
 Mama was in the parking lot dancin' with Mary Jane just to mask the hurt

 I've spent...

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Do You ever just get tired of Being You?
Up there on The Highest of pedestals as You rule...
Is It You feeling selfish or alone as an unhinged fool?
I care of Your most inner thoughts and about You often...
May My remarks make Your Strength become more...

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Lately, when I look in a mirror
I see what I swore I'd never see.
For there's an image of my father
shamelessly staring right back at me.

I see his fat belly, I hated,
hanging profusely over my belt.
And those droopy bags under his eyes
now sag under mine as...

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He 
Didn't swear
On "Bible"...
But "Moby Dick"
No!

From the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes"...

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06.08.2009

"The heart that swore fidelity"

After I'm gone
You may not cry for me
You'll find the truth
Engraved upon my door:
"Here lived a heart
That swore fidelity
Through peaceful days
And through the nights of war"

Go on and feed
Your youthfull soul with pride,
With awe you wake
In all those lost and cold

After...

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There once was a lass named Hortense
When she spoke she didn't make sense
An interpreter was needed
But the interpreter cheated
Swore like a trooper, made the air blue and intense


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Thought I saw you when I was working the window
Turned out to be a dream, what do you know?

Some times I think back to those times and then I laugh
Imagining how life would be if I took another path

I realize that I've spent the last...

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Heart Swore An Oath, Never, Never Again

When the joy overcame the epic pain
Heart swore an oath - never, never again
Letting life and love's great loss break this heart
Torn asunder, lost and ripped apart
Where love only exists as in a dream
A tragedy, drinking from a dry...

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I have grown tired of violence over love. 
I threw my cautions aside when I felt this for you,
and I swore I would not be a punished woman. 
You will not be the exception to this any longer.
I cannot believe I thought I could find...

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i think we all swore,
way back an before,
it was time to get us some manners,
the 4 letter words don't bother the birds,
just upsets the sad social planners...Don

re:  Sara Kendrick
"Young Man and the Older Man"...

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( Dark Doubles Tribute To Poetic Those Gifts Given By Raven And Master Poe )

(1.)

Under Bright Bloody-Red Midnight Moon, Raven Plays

Yes, those horrific screams, came from below
those frosty chills, born from eerie glow
echoes bouncing off tall bloody-red walls
terror and fear from Raven's midnight calls!

Hold tight,...

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(Written for Jim Eslinger )


DEVOTION POEM  5, “Unspoken”         ***** (for Jim Eslinger)


Young and new to each other,
There was always too much to say.
Glancing around in restaurants, we’d notice
What so many friends remarked on when seeing
Those older...

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