Best Two Hundred Poems

Chuzzlewit Chuzzlewit
Nicolas Nickleby
Pickwick, Scrooge, Dombey
And more of their kind

Two hundred years, filled with
Dickensiania
Real, just like you:
It is all in the mind...

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One first flight, Columbia’s name.
Seven souls aboard, bound for fame.

Six days, then ten, experiments thrive,
Eighty hearts of science, dreams alive.

Sixteen days, the Earth they skim,
Reentry calls—light fades dim.

Tick-tick, hiss-hiss, crack-crack—a sound,
A breach unseen, the heat unwound.

1.67 pounds, a foam unseen,
Pierced the wing, unstitched the dream.

40...

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February 4th, 1999 - two hundred
and fifty two months ago
Shana Aubrey Harris officially completed,
now ranks among status quo
lawfully, legally, legitimately in toto
twenty one orbitz around the sun - whoa!

Chronological benchmark ye did attain
plus major purchase of second automobile
(2002 Subaru Impreza) skill ye did gain
curious if...

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Poem after poem, "two" words by three
I count about a "hundred" rhymes 
And I keep writing, "and"  I keep rhyming
Convinced I'll be "going" for as long as I live
Because I am "strong" in my words...

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Two hundred and twenty stories never written but etched in time

were removed on a day which started fine.  

The silver worms traveled down beneath the floors 

carrying those whose day (lest they know) would be a chore,
 
through the escalators and out the doors...

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as I got older 
my brain started going south
so I rotated my bed
two hundred and seventy degrees 
to the left 
going west towards California
now I feel younger, more alert,
more liberal and free...

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tercets

Braxton H. Gardner of north Kentucky, 
progenitor of our family tree.
His marriage date was 1833.

Braxton Charles S. Gardner from our archive,
was his youngest son, born in ’45.
He barely recalled his father alive.

Barney Braxton Gardner, uncle of mine;
his sister, my grandma, mother of nine.
My father was...

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America.
Is equality truly our highest priority?
The equality of all white males, yes.

We have been on the maps for over two hundred years,
Promising the same things,
But never delivering.

A woman who works the same job as a man will still receive lower pay.
Why is that?
A man of...

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Santa is humming as he checks over his list next to the snow.
What song is that? Asks Blixen, who truly does not know.
Not sure, Dancer answers, but this year we do not have to go.
We are going Dancer and Prancer informed them, even if we...

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Not really a big number. less than half the number
of pennnies needed to buy a Big Mac without fries.

But uncovering the remains of 215 children at 
the Kamloops Indian Residential School, run by
the Catholic Oblates of Mary Immaculate Order
staggered my mind. Then I realized this...

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I can see them slowly marching off,
Through the midst of time.
Some looking back over their shoulders,
(A few were even crying'")

Oh, if I had the chance to speak with them,
What do you think they would say?
"Son, our efforts won your independence;
Are using or abusing it today?

With...

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Two hundred steps to
The mouth of truth
Open up that gaping maw
Crack wide the snapping jaw.

In its eye no mystery
Just a need
A need to consume
And strip my costume.

Violins play as I walk 
I'll learn your insides next 
I'll be a student of your teeth
An apprentice of...

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in respect love's there in love respect's there too both are of two hundred...

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Ludwig von Beethoven
German extraordinaire
composed music for forty-five years
seven hundred and twenty-two works of brilliance
first performance at age seven
deafness did not stop his genius
an inspiration...

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Sumthang wrong wiff dez words
They give know direction
To me and you
Hypertheticail thoughts
They don't tell me
What I gotta do

Ribeye, broccoli, and potatoes
Cup of gravy on the side!
The Carney, sorney 
Tater, broccoli and
Meat special
Now we know
The garlicky, onion,chivey
Sun dries tomatoes
With olive oil roasted
Red pepper and bacon,
Cream cheesed...

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