Best Turnabout Poems

I want you to want me
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Divorced, and so wanting his kids-
since custody ruling forbids
togetherness much,
an idea he'd clutch-
get rescued from fatherhood skids.

A Nanny, mom wanted for them;
he thought of a...

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I loved my job as a botanist, which took me to many foreign lands,
Like the golden sun rises smiling, to meet all our natural demands.

I...

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REMEMBER JACOB

what is normal?
i’m back to it
with my back
to the negativity
a smile securely
in place, in place of
the fog that was raging,
raging strong…
fighting me (how
do you...

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Today the New York Marathon's
Become a non-event.
The runners' opportunities
To race both came and went.

At first the mayor said it's on,
Despite the storm's destruction;
And then, last...

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Seeing you all glistening wet
 from your nice, long hot shower, 
Makes things tight in my lower stomach
 and frustrated that you have that power.

One...

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Dear Dr. Freud, what can I truly say?
You know my ego does get in the way
a heavy block of much love for the self
freezing up...

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Though I'm ashamed to say it now, I never took conservation seriously,
Just living life as if nothing else mattered, full of wonted complacency.

I would hear...

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I dwelt once in a dreamy town, my land was alongside the border,
In a region of natural beauty, next to a crystalline body of water.

From...

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I was forever losing things, and my laughing friends called me a klutz,
Like darker skies misplace buttery sun, when a severe storm develops.

I had once...

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She told me I was “full of it”
As she walked away.
I muttered
“What?”
Then sat
in lightly drizzling
sun
repeating
“damn!”
“what have I done?”
The curbstone bruised
my pouting cheeks
stray dogs gazed sadly
at...

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What if our minds were like spider webs,   
Spreading to the invisible realm?  
Beyond the brain seems blissfully insane
Like a transcendental spell....

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I am the captain of my ship
Sailing uncharted oceans
I am the captain of my mates
To whom I owe devotion

Sailing we on mounting waves
Awash, unconscious, unafraid
Sail...

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Sweet flowers of May how you do entice 
lifting and filling my soul with beauty
swaying in the breeze and releasing spice
aromas that enthrall sharp and...

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An end of season bloom, this Rose of white
stands all alone in chill of autumn air
while blooming softly in the fading light,
and still she is...

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