Best Takings Poems

She senses before she sees
The manicured nails - the elegant fingers
Holding out the hundred dollar bills - enticingly - so temptingly
A generous nights takings of...

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The following poem is a personal one, a memory from decades ago about a specific person and time in my life.  It's a memory...

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adventure, growing up, hip hop, repetition, word play

A ONE STEP AT A TIME ©
Life is but a hopscotch path
Players vying for placement
Rules to follow aground
Tokens...

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Admittedly a little bit of me can see I have an ability
missing ambition to mission living submissively in submission,

If I believe built into me 
a...

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'Tis 60 years now come and gone
Since first we took our Pledge
To be true, one to the other,
To take a step beyond that sharp edge
That...

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             My Grandfather's Grocer Shop

I was born in Liverpool - England and
I remember...

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Cabbie with A Heart

This latest news about a selfless taxi driver…
The kindness out of his heart is a source for wonder ….
In the daily business...

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I have seen and felt your icy touch,
And, you have scared me too much.
But, I have seen you take the Great, the Rich, and the...

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We watched Frida Kahlo 
with our backs toward the rice fields
The monkey fits tightly to her breast, 
her right breast. A parrot 
on her left...

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Born to cure by nature for we are Siamese twins,
though we`ve been separated from inception,
our tentacles and wings pilot the earth like fins,
Mixture of herbs...

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The pavements stand empty the winds are still
Where are the people these chairs to fill.
Can hear shouts and cheering drafting in the air
Are these the...

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Those days are gone, set
afloat upon waves of air-
that in which we dreamed, for we
were dreamers...adrift in the water
that took us to wherever
the currents flowed-
into...

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I'm going gung-ho, I'll let the gun blow, I aint done no, until I say so,
I've got sayings to sow, when I lay they go...

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* I wrote my first poem 2 years ago, to celebrate, I've written this poem where I've stole my own rhymes from my own poems...

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YOU MIGHT NOT THINK YOUR PERFECT OR MAYBE NOT THE BEST.
BUT JUST TO LET YOU KNOW I ADMIRE YOU AVOVE THE REST.
FOR WORKING SO HARD...

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Taking these pills
To make me feel sane
But taking these pills
Makes me more insane
I see dots & circles
Swirls of colors
Faces are morphed
Objects look rubber
I don't know...

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They say once your in, there’s no way out
Unless you’re wounded in a bed, or six feet under ground
You step out into the streets
Getting shot,...

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In the shifting of days repeat, one slips of mind all the powerful and meek gratitude.

A feather floats freely.

Overwhelmed by such responsible ways,distracted by so...

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