Best Toss Away Poems

I am a creature like others, taking for granted each breath,
making mistakes, some no amount of contrition can erase
which makes my faults no less dismal than death.
Unless by the mercy of my Creator, I am to be forgiven.
Perhaps I can best define myself as God's...

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Everyone would say,  did you hear?
She's the one
She's too young
How irresponsible

Wearing smiles upon their faces, 
pasting labels on her back
Her sullied reputation,  
a newborn in her pack
How impossible

Everyone would say did you know that he has gone?

Mistakes she made, she'll be known to...

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Thanks to Muhammad Imtiaz for allowing me to work with him to create this piece. I added a bit of fantasy to his real life experience. He was moved by seeing poverty up close in a Souk (Market) in Pakistan. His poem of the same...

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Molten rings of fire,
Encrusted spikes of hate.
Devil-haunted liar,
You'll pay at any rate.

Deceiving, horrid monster,
Crumbling burnt-out rain.
All the tales will cost her,
Never mind the pain.

Living the dying acid heat,
Crushing the putrid dove.
The smoldering heart will never beat,
If you toss away the love.

Crippled hope and crippled sin,
Entwined...

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The pieces of peace were handpicked
Picked in the heart of the night 
Shredded for an aspiration 
To clutch the lone torch contained by the dark
A glimpse for some unusual rank

Then comes the arrival of time  
With the angst that grow by day 
Comes the...

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~ Stay   Focus ~
( Quatern )



Stay focus on Lord till reach goal
Just do it one day at a time
You will complete your task just fine
Even if from bottom you climb

Don't lose sight and never give up
Stay focus on Lord till reach goal
Do it...

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Stumbling on a bag of trash;
Set aside to toss away,
To be burned into gray ash
Or be found another day.

Set aside to toss away,
Like a cold dark memory
Or be found another day;
Recounting a great story.

Like a cold dark memory,
Relics full of history;
Recounting a great story,
Shedding doubt...

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Kind poets die
Bitter ones come back to life
Drunken ones have no life
Sober ones write novels not poems
Married ones write of great loves
Single ones, of love lost
Funny ones toss away their poems
...... and join the circus
My cat wrote a poem for a contest
........and Won
I am a...

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New Year’s Resolutions

The New Year is slowly nearing
Needing to leave the old year singing

Shouting and cheering feeling carefree
Of what the New Year will bring for me 

Making charitable resolutions with caring lifestyle changes
Stick and not fail to make better life choices

Through the year acquiring good...

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Retribution Is Not My Dog

Retribution is not my dog
No bone- no contrition
just another child who does
not listen or pay attention
karma please let um slide
i really ain't mad ...
life has beat um down enough
please karma let um slide.
Karma excuse my soft heart.
Retribution ain't always worth
the worry...

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inspired by Julio Eglesias song March 9, 2016
Composed by Joan May Donnelly Ellis

To all the men I've loved before
Who found their way to my heart's door, 
I'm grateful to you, 
I've learned a thing or two,
From all the men I've loved before.
To all the men...

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isn’t it hilarious
how it is that only tonight
both you and i have come to realize 

for years this dinner table
has vastly stood between us

and all that is spread upon it
may never manage to evade the distance
or the partitions blocking me from you.
therefore, i clasp the...

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I hunger inside
To grow and grow forever
do I want to stay?

I hunger inside 
to grow and explore all that is new
yet it means to toss away the old
my old life and old self
and embrace the new

It’s hard to let go
to finally let go of everything
to...

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How I love, just to create; 
making things, with wire 
and other old scraps.  
Settling on a design, 
I will make it to sell, 
but my accounting’s not quite straight.

I’ll begin my project, straight 
away; what I create, 
I hope to sell.
I build an...

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let's get irrational
let's imaginatively think
let's quotient ideas fractional
let's think up primes distinct

let's see what we can make of it
let's examine possibilities
let's toss away the parity bit
let's forgo responsibilities 

let's universally go to edge
let's carry ones to tens
let's farfetched, forgo a hedge
let's do it all over...

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