Best Troublemaker Poems

A poet looking for a peer 
invariably troubles Shakespeare.

Volodymyr Knyr
2014...

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He will make everything fabulous
Wait and see
He has a way of doing things
He knows what needs to be done first
And every step thereafter
He knows how...

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"All the Dark Stallions"



Calliope burns 
ecstatic bright star
fire brands, all her marks

both hands 
holding the ropes
firmly fast today 

slow burn 
tomorrow
warm whispers 

gently towards
the unlit...

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There's a Good Man just up that hilltop there.
A Good Man,
He loves all children, both the troublemaker and the perfect ones.
He loves the poor and...

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Chino

By Edmund Siejka

(from East Of Seventh, Local Gems Press publisher. Available on Amazon)


Waiting near a candy store 
For something to happen
Chino pretended to be his...

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   "Wedding of a Wench"


a joyous celebration promised arrived on lacy invitation
bring only your smile as a gift to offer congratulations
but my cousin,...

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The Boy from the Tail End of the Goldhawk Road

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The Boy from the Tail End of the Goldhawk Road

I was born Carl Robert Halling at...

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Little Island of Jamaica, birth place of Reggae
Always jolly, on a sunny day
Rastafari is the place where it all started
1948 on the Empire Wind rush...

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Sheriff Koplin was talking with Tom on how it had been a quiet week
Not one crime had been reported for the town of Milton Creek
Then...

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You made Death grumble, boy
He not pleased that a little squirt like you got away
He had you choking on your mama's apron strings,
with that foolhardy,...

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Without one, I'm lost
Troublemaker and savior
Mine, sincerely yours...

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I uttered an authoritative groan as he let
go of my hand
This was it
Never ever was I again going to stroke his
cheeks or fondle any other...

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Punish me not for the sins of my youth,
I stand here today before you to confess the truth,
of the venial indiscretions of my youth.
A lost...

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Tap tap-tap-tap tap-tap 
He hunts and pecks his words
Each one seems a struggle 
Just to get the ink to the paper
He does this incessantly
From four...

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I have this burning desire
To find old mate
I want to sit
And chat with him
Under a Gum and setting sun
About what has come
And what has passed
Times...

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