Best Waste Basket Poems

my new haiku pad
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Every poet on this site fill up your cup and throw your hands in the air.
It's gonna be an entertaining night, so sit back and...

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(Door bell rings)

 — The damn dog barks and a voice is heard. Arms stretch, forming a letter Y. A head shakes. Dimples become this smooth cheek; lips...

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There's a spot in my life that's 
been void filled and I cry with
a morbid intensity when I think of
him as I do now. He's...

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Negotiations broke down and the quest for peace became of no accord as

Defiance continued to stand its historical ground.... 

Mixed emotions while closing these hopes;...

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Texas A and M when I was in school
You could only survive, if you were cool
Things are so different from when I went there
I have...

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Where the floor meets the wall,
She stands in her usual spot,
Craving a cigarette,
Observing, processing, psycho-analyzing,
Another Saturday night with her friends.

Their forced civilized exchange of small...

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Elixers, emulsions, powders and lotions,
spread on the counter like a fleet on  an ocean.
It’s those bathroom battles that I still see,
ground that was lost,...

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Counting Green Fruit Loops

Wearing his spandex boxer shorts outside in the snow
To get the paper, dancing to Dire Straits with my IPOD
And my sports bra...

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DESIGNATED SPOT

Been looking at this spot
This area by my lazy boy chair
How many months
How many years has it been there?

There is an end table, a...

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Fever and Chills

History writes itself
invisible pens find surfaces unknown
private life
public life
fever and chills sleep together
heaving corrosive air
from colorless lungs
hearing but their own moans
their own cries...

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The Cinematic Film Treatment as Poetic Element 
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Mechanical Intervention in the Nick of Time 

Biography of the greatest cryptoanalyst of them all, "Bumpy" Boedecker...

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Becoming 1

I’ve seen stranger things 
Spoiled tongue 
Rosy words
Puzzle pieces 
Riddles and books to be published
And a wedding televised every place 
A beautiful pink dress...

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Running the race?
Yester-marathon they remain.
No part in my tomorrow-place.
Today?
Living & breathing peace.
Old saying,
"Can't win for loose."
Why join the presence course of going nowhere?
Just me now,
Healing...

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Pain, while unpleasant, does serve a purpose.
It lights the fires that make the poet pick up pen.
An all-too-content person has no need for expression.
So it's...

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