Best Tasked Poems

I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope,...

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Please take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe...

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I'm but a frail bird tasked to bring hope and spread peace.
How shall I fly high in the sky with such a brittle burden!
My heart...

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It was nigh on to St. Crispin's day
But I found no solace there.
The night curdled with discontentment
As a vile expectation filled the air.
Death himself appeared...

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I can’t think of a theme I confess
and doubting I’ll please John Lawless
I’m ahhing and umming
and no words are coming
my shattered nerves are such a...

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26.

A stationary bicycle
Never travels very far.
Nor sniffs the meadow flowers
Or sets the evening star.

It is far from me to criticize
The direction that you ought...
But it...

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* I always felt like “Nessie” got a bad rap, being called a monster and a beast and all that, so I think this little...

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As the rain pelted down on my windshield
hypnotic wipers swayed back and forth
stuck in a traffic mass exodus
I exited south out of New York

Deep in...

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The True Alpha Male

The True Alpha Male is the man that is masculine, but not toxic. 
The man whose behavior proceeds from a sense of...

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Stranded in war torn Sudan, 
Dreading yet another dawn. 
In Wadi Sayyidna town,
Hopelessness was weighing down.

Men and women, young and old, 
Watched the civil war...

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I'm looking for a human heart,
    A brand-new one, por favor,
        Mine's quite cold and...

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Ghetto me be a bleating poor refugee,
albeit I’m Goshen rich in faith
Got a manger stall in the USA,
Pilate shepherd of the Cesarian peace

Time stamped stillborn...

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I.
When Sal rode slowly into Victorville,
he saw an empty street, buildings unfilled,
Sol half-expected this, it’s why he was here,
but even to him, it always looked...

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God has tasked poets,
With keeping Hope alive,
Love in all their labours,
Anger under  control,
Sadness from overflowing,
Romance from slipping off the page,
And most poets can take...

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