Best Times Up Poems

When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood, an' flood an' drought,
There ain't much in-between.
You work like hell to make ’em good,
But still they’re sorta lean.

The ranch went...

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I have lost more lines				
        than I have written				
           for they often come unbidden
              ...

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As the gold leaves on the ginkgo fall,
Upon the cold autumn earth.
I think how the winter winds
Sound, as they whip as if in mirth.

Winter is upon us, cold lies ahead.
Can we bear the storms of aging?
I can't help but those dread.
Sometimes I feel like raging.

Dear...

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Upon my tiptoes, I gaze through a window, the window of my mind. 
I pull back the curtain, peer from a partially drawn blind.

Before me lay this youthful beauty, perfection in every line,
And standing there beside her was the old keeper of all time.

He swiftly...

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No script
belonging one’s civilization
no history
anyone can recall,
only the enduring solid stone blocks
someone created to form this ancient wall.
A relic unknowingly
left to the woodland undergrowth
and those
that measure nature’s time.

 © Harry J Horsman 2020...

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Try
New things
Carry on
With good old things
Believe in yourself
Trust your inner soul
All that you have overcome
Faith in the strength you are given
The light after every dark storm
You know best for yourself in all of times

Heidi Sands

10/4/21...

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You say: Wrong place—wrong time,
Maybe: Wrong place—not right time,
Not right place—but wrong time?
I say: This's right place—right time, 
In times and places,
What is the time?
Where is the place
For right not wrong?
Is this like signs
Tearing up the scenery;
What about my mind?
Don't what? I can read the...

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Satellites in space keeping an eye on the human race
Independence in place a parental pacified pallid pace
Gods of war prepare for their cadaverous command
Narcissistic lair in control of the deceptively damned

Obedient in oblivion MK ultra has barbarously begun
Facing fallacious delirium bullets bleed of killing done

Tyrants...

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How many times can you express friendship and support
Only to realize these feelings will never be returned

How many times can you fool yourself
Saying, "This is okay; nothing was promised"

How many times can you pick yourself up
Pretend it doesn't hurt; act like all is fine

How many...

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When Love comes pounding on a drum,
      it comes on strong and fast and hard
                until two hearts in synch beat passion's song.

Sometimes love comes...

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A movie, oh wow, when one need not be Woke!
A girl was a girl, a bloke was a bloke.

I forget I was born when times were free.
Not under pressure of societal perversity.

We had jobs, were not weird and went to school.
We had nothing free, we...

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*Note: my first line is inspired by a line taken from Eve Roper's poem 'What the eye sees the heart cannot forget".

*'My heart still feels those times spent in the warmth'
of his embrace!  Although so long ago,
those were the times I touched all of...

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I aint got no money and I'm goin' down fast

My heads in the toilet and my life's in the trash

I wish I had a penny for every bad thought

I wish I could steal without gettin' caught

 

Wanna be able to buy my own smokes

I'm tired...

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Joe Lunchbucket stands on the bread line
The plant closure left him not one dime
  So handouts he seeks
  Like dogs beg for treats
As senators toast to the good times



Entry for Deborah Guzzi's limerick contest...

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The asphalt driveway is blackened over by rain 
sand bags lie in the corner of the garage in case water creeps in, some sheep scurry in distant fields 

Your elephant eyes are locked on the TV; 55 inches of electronic love
I liked lying under the...

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