Best Unceremoniously Poems

My life spirals ever downward...
The grave taunts me with its laugh.
Death's bony fingers are affixed my throat
As the jester of my unmerited epitaph.

My angst at...

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The family had just moved into an old castle in Scotland; 
mother, father and their only daughter, Emmie, that they loved so deeply. 
Emmie was...

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The year 1890
December 29th
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
My tribe lost their lives

The USS 7th
On their orders so
To round up the Sioux
Railroad herd them and go

Us Lakota...

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Your arm wraps 
around her shoulder.
She slips in—wears you
easily and steps in the place
that was our embrace 
for eighteen years.
This looks so effortless for you.

Out...

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Teardrops slipping, sliding, falling unceremoniously 
Bruised and battered, this broken hearted agony. 
Memories arise of the times gone before 
When being in love with you...

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I'm not overly fond of receiving a family's annual gushing story,
In the form of a Christmas Letter stating that all is hunky-dory.
I received one the...

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The music video is more or less a continuation to the poem. So please play it when cued in the poem text and continue enjoying...

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The Sinai Rose finch, oblivious to the commotion in the nearby city, busily gathered dry grass and floral fodder to repair her nest, disturbed by...

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I stay close to home these days,
my roaming needs seeming to
expire with age, finding more
of what I need in the Silence
of packing; of course, this...

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Stung with the absence of his father, he excruciatingly rumbled deep inside of his mother’s womb. 
He stormed out already filled with disappointing void. 
The...

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At the final stroking of saint Halloween eve, it seems not so long ago,
That my trusty SUV, transport vehicle unceremoniously broke down,
Right outside the local...

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(Dedication: For Dave Wood, the Lyric Man)
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Teary moonlight
Flash from heaven;
Lovers unite

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Teenage lover boy
Bus-stop waiting;
Delayed arrival

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Nicotine addict
Puffing for dear life;
Carcinogenic highs

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Grass blades
Protrude through cracks;
Sidewalk stone slabs

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College...

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The loving people of our fair town needed a vacation one fine day.
I wasn’t about to argue with them, I’ve often felt the same way.
The...

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I wish I was a family pet

Whose only needs are to be fed

And to unceremoniously

Relieve themselves in the park

I would of course be more discreet

Now...

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.One Summer Long ago  
	The wind played idly with white puffy clouds
 The sun shining brightly against the loud blue sky 
The horizon shimmered...

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