Best Thirty Six Poems

Inside twinkling eyes of nights bloom
          Garden flowers whisper
      Peeking through...

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If all could be said
With one hundred thirty six words
Could my thoughts be coherent 
Would words travel in herds

Would they race across pages
receiving thunderous applause...

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In Search of 50 Names(couplets alphabetized for ease of footnoting the names)

A) A tom cat sits in heather nearby a willow tree.
Rose and jasmine fill...

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"To play a wrong note is insignificant, to play without passion is inexcusable"
            ...

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So many voices, both men and women all talking at once, it was dark.
I don’t understand a word of what they are saying.
I'm trying to...

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I fly on wing of song.
Twenty-three miles out of Atlanta
soaring like an eagle traveling from DC
thirty-six thousand miles high
Fly, fly away
Through the blue hues of...

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when life’s path
was wide and long
our dreams and goals
were one and strong

we got engaged
and then we wed
and opened doors
that lay ahead

and when rules changed
in life’s...

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Born in Ireland in eighteen seventy four
He was a remarkably brave explorer
Three times to Antartica he did go
To that barren wilderness of ice and snow.

Once...

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I was asked to write an honest portrayal of my life-
I could say I am a daughter, mother and wife.
My days are full of so...

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And in my deep meditation, I am searching with a breathless sigh;
I am following the twisted path of a flowing stream, 
and birds twitter and...

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Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a...

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Today I caught a young student staring at me.
This young man, who seldom comes to class,
 greets me, nonetheless, with a beaming smile
the days he...

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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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If I should live 'til one-thirty-six
what fun might I have...
how would I get my kicks?

I'd start with a dance
swaying in my wheelchair
with that lovely young...

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Stargazer Lilium,
known for her perfume-
blossoming mid-to-late summer
she arises in pure blooming serenity.
My garden is feeding her with delight;
for her seeds are gems nourishing the soil.

She...

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