Best Telling Poems

Picking a rose in a garden of Sundays
Calling your name on a broken branch wind
Looking for clover where weeds are not welcome
Walking the bridge till its time to begin
 
Dancing in puddles now filled up with laughter
Running through traffic as cars speed away
Searching for words...

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Love, joy and peace
three virtues, over-simplified, 
three fairly well-understood character traits
desired by friends, rejected by very few
who live in community with others.

Patience, goodness, kindness
Patience, I readily admit is my own Achilles’ heel.
Goodness and kindness seem to overlap.
And yet I have come to understand that they...

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In a blue morning sky

I watched her going

As she turned to say goodbye

Her strawberry auburn hair still blowing

In this heart deep inside

Inside her smile....

Where her love shall reside

These tears not knowing

That our time in this place

A place that left us

With a rose petal trace....

While seasons...

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Along rails of ambivalent dreams,
Bittersweet yet luscious flashbacks
Take me back to my friend, the tactile moon – a 
 Quiescent basin of grace and alchemy:  we would utter
And laugh about legends quite arcane from books
Chipped from eve’s daily flamboyant story – telling rites…
As willows...

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Telling Tales


Very telling
truth buried in lies
hate disguised as love
weeds strangling flowers
corrupt gardeners
singing the devils last song
virgins bloom all white
raped by old men
an old ways...

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  open your mind      go with your heart and soul and be a story worth telling
life begins at the edge so step into your fear   and just let go  (I can and I will)
 inspire ...

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I keep telling my father, sure dad I'l be better, I'll get my life together.

He looks at me with a desparte face, "Okay my little one"

I keep telling my father I'll get my life together. 

I don't mean to hurt him.... I really mean what...

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Girl you treat me bad and dont give it a second thought.
Run around on me with every other man.
look so fine with new clothes for you I bought.

You just say there friends larry Frank  Corey.
You say  it's all in my head.
But I know...

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How do I tell her?
There is no way for sure
She deserves to know
Here I go

"I need to tell you something..."
I let those words ring
This has to be the day
"I don't know how to say-"

'Say that you love me?
Say that we were meant to be?
That when...

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They become your friend
They take your side
But from the abuse 
You cannot hide
Slowly at first
To make you a friend
One he feels he can depend

In your mind you’re crying for help
But each time,no matter what you are alone
When he is done, he feels no disgrace
A feeling...

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High School ~

Being asked to search my memory of school 'daze' gone by
is asking quite a lot of me but I promise to give it a try.
A country high school can't compare to a fancy school in a city
but with fewer girls around, boys thought...

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Prism
multi, colored
infinity, internally, spinning
Located in the pituitary gland
masterly, universally, implanted
seeing, freeing
prison...

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This saying is simply divine
“You shouldn’t cast pearls before swine”
Some think they are cool
Then break ev’ry rule
Folk cheating are no friends of mine!


'Porkie Pies' is cockney rhyming slang for lies

11-02-17...

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THEY USED SPOONED NOW SHE IS SPOON FED
He holds a seventy-two year old spoon to her mouth
seventy-two years wed
seventy-two years in the same bed
he holds the spoon in front of her gray framed head
after all, sick or not, frail or not
the lady must be fed
and...

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When I was little I thought the older a person was, the more brain cells you grew.
Thus, older people are smarter than little people. 
That thought was long gone by the time I was four or five.
At eight I was so confused by big hand...

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