Best Tamped Poems

I know you're out there
    I can hear you ... typing, rat-a-tat-tat
      I echo it, but place...

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I know you're out there ...
    I can hear you ... typing, rat-a-tat-tat
      I echo it, but...

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Within a night, a simple crop field has been transformed into a  magnificent work of art, the overnight cryptic formations capture the attention of...

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"To hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. "
William Shakespeare," Hamlet 1601."


Long ago another planted you,	
My cherished Ginkgo tree.
She tamped you in so carefully
And...

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…the seeds of neo-Nazism are germinating  
Markus Nierth, former mayor of Tröglitz, Germany 2015

Germany’s rock candy windows and cookie like shingles make seeing the...

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final dismount, final ride
pasture waits for dappled roan
girth mark of the lonely byways
lather from the battles flown
dew eyed weary, spinal backed
stumble step'd and nostril blown...

stirrup...

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Here we hid when we heard
A knock strongly---a sudden clattered upon the ground
Everyone indoor shrieked, trembled
Out...     out.....    ...

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What later will be filled with squeals
And peals of childish laughter,
In desolation thus reveals
What comes before and after.

The vacant swings, with chains unclasped,
Hang waiting, so...

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Ashamed
   I see what you have and I want it.
I am immediately ashamed.
   Indignant over the fact that these feelings could...

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Seeds of remembrance.
Bulbs and tubers
tamped under soil,
a burial that isn’t death....

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It was unseasonably
warm for Winter
sun shone bright
cool breeze blowing
but not even cold
and I was
just walking
along, not knowing
the world, as we knew it
was about to come...

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M aking believe that you're doing just fine,
A llowing only your best deeds to shine.
S aying what everyone wants to hear,
Q uickly quashing any sign...

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They say that any dream is organised around a wish.
That a dream can often be the fulfilment of a wish.
Last night I dreamt.  I...

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My calloused black skin got shoved in the soil by a white mans soiled thumb
Trying to make his mortgage off me

Buried
I found friends 
Barely breathing

But...

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