Best Upstanding Poems

Voting day at long last has arrived.
Scrambling through closet,
a cavernous space in accumulation.
In the deepest darkest corner, 
purpose achieved, 
garnering my three by five inch...

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We are all a product of our environment
Under different influences
Each one of us could have been a terrorist or a man of God
A President or...

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I am but an ancient tree
Upstanding in my singularity
Ordained by the forest of my forefathers
I am full spread reaching for the sun
The light of 4.6...

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Leader
Confident, assertive
Leading, aiding, helping,
Friends, admirers, haters, destroyers
Gossiping, bossing, glaring
Passive, aggressive
Follower...

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Boiling shells crack down hard upon raining rooftops
None doth any apparitional material cover upon her arrogant gift
She hast not laid down upon her last upstanding
Glass...

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She is odd, they said.
She won’t talk to you.
She is stuck up.
She is mean.

He did not believe them.
Them who had lied about him also when...

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Simple song
By Michelle Morris
09/11/2020

You remind me of everything that's amazing in this world,
And I can't stop thinking about you and everything you do;
And I know...

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Alphabetical animals all around:
Angry army ants,
Busy buzzing bees,
Carousing calico cats,
Dancing dolphin duo,
Eerie electric eels
Fancy feathered flamingos,
Graceful grey geese,
Harmless hairy hamsters,
Interesting itchy insects,
Jolly Japanese jellyfish,
Karate kicking...

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He was young  and attractive and quite debonair,
An upstanding young man who was going somewhere.
Or so it would seem if you knew not his...

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That goofball husband of hers brought her to this joint to see her get drunk for the very first time. She actually plugged her nose...

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I know men, young and old, from Devizes
Who are wolves in surprising disguises
Sometimes girls are as bad
But it’s often the lad
Who, for whoring, has shelves...

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My wheels came off the rails for a wee bit

When those oh so yummy donuts interrupted my diet

But I'm back on track again

How easy it...

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Be the bringer of peace 
In all you say and do
Be an oasis of calm 
When chaos surrounds you.

Try and do the right thing
And be...

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There once was a Ninja so sneaky
He broke their mercenary treaty
For he turned on his own
Because greed was his bone
His skeleton is now not so...

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Frog Adventures - journey always continues - A Collaboration

The Frog lands on earth smiling
Nothing has changed In mirror reflections
Bearing gifts from his mission on Mars
He...

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