Best Twenty Three Poems

"A Widow At Twenty Three"   Part3

Left alone with a son of three already had buried a child under a tree
Today she had to set a timing for the funerals when they’ll be climbing
The road to the top of the hill where she and...

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When night came, the cattle bedded down 
And the night riders making their rounds
Samuel would take a strole to the chuck wagon 
And Cookie would hand him his cup of coffee

As he savored it's taste
He'd check with Cookie to see 
If his supplies were holding...

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The perils they continue
As the lightening claimed the sun
"I's gots ta watch tha leader
Un hope her don't decides ta run"

"Gabe youse gits tha boys un tow
Case all hell coulds breaks oot"
Said Samuel as he started for his mount
Rope in hand he crawled aboard his eyes...

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"Ain't got no prairie fire worries," 
Bob says to Little Zeke
"Lessen we gits some whar with grass"
And he kicked his horse in the ribs as they entered the pass

A week later they found grass
The cattle were starting to get weak
Samuel called a hault 
And all...

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Through my Magic Window 
I see the cowboys on the hill
Trying to convince the cattle 
That they have had their fill

"Jist goes ahead un snuff nu blow 
Cause ut er a thousan' miles ta go
Bafor youse'll be left un youse own," 
Called out Lester Lowe

"Two...

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Grasshoppers in the food
Grasshoppers in your bed
Grasshoppers in your drawers 
Grasshoppers on your head

"Boys we's gonna hast ta push um
Tha weathers helpin too
I ain't got no idera how fer it air
Till we's kin find some food"

"Hey Cookie whar air fer breakfast"
Asked Samuel as he reached...

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Married 13 days
You break your left leg again
and restart the pain...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Three

Is it true the sun dared cock its eye over the hillocks
Nor did it with affront sink into raging Atlantic docks
Such the glare of armoured headlights singeing the mist-crowned mosque
Though the assembled hosts ogled the Furies with hidden...

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When I was blonde and twenty-three
The world held open doors for me
The streets would speak, they were my friend
I thought that love would never end

Scarlet lips on sunset kisses
Promised all that passion wishes
Mirror friendly faces glowed
I sought the life I thought was owed

When I was...

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I have been counting the days and nights,
23,427 so far,
no two exactly the same
just as no two snowflakes
precisely duplicate a common design structure.

Having received over 23,000 days and nights
to get my act together,
this day, right now,
culminating my entire story line
about how I came to become...

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Flapper Shirley Shively sighed and thought, how could she?
She'd love to do that hootchie-kootchie dance, but would she?
Though the boys she loved to tease,
She was, sadly, quite obese.
Surely Shirley Shively shouldn't shimmy, should she?...

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God speaks to me often, I do what he asks
If I know He is asking, I’m up for the task;
no matter the reason, a job big or small
I will always respond when I hear the call.

One day, driving to work and I started to pray...

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Zeina, Zeina,
Where you be?
Tryin' to find you before,
I get to twenty-three...

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Welcome friends, time for an education
let's digest what Mark 9:23 is;
"...all's possible," even for your imagination
"...just believe," and you won't miss.

You see, Jesus told this young man
that all's possible if he can believe;
just keep your prayers ready at hand
even if you want to visit the...

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Wonder how many breaths we take in a day
So I looked it up and here's what they say
23,000 is the big number
8.5 million a year, what wonder
Roughly 675 million if you live to eighty

(at 82 I'm working on 692m)...

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