Best Well Tried Poems

On a cloud I wrote - I love you
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This is a myth
About the Hobabobaknox
A fiery dreadful creature 
That was never seen or caught
So how is it I know?
Is it true or just a thought
If it was never seen 
How can this story be bought...?

Unlike the Jabberwocky, the Hobabobaknox 
Was very good at staying...

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Top Secret;
Completely classified...
'Let A Man From Asia be your guide'
Ponder what it means completely mystified-
Let A Man From Asia be your guide?
Blinked a few times and those words magnified-
LET A MAN FROM ASIA BE YOUR GUIDE.
If he fits the bill and is really qualified-
I'd let...

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I am so far out of my element
It almost seems unreal
When in truth, which I always seek to find
Pretence is all that I feel
In this, my second language
I aim to express the glistening skin
That hides the shallow graves of conscience
Trapped so deep within
The pottery I...

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I tried to hide
I tried to hide 
But I just can't hide me

I tried to hide 
Yet my soul speaks 
To me

I tried to hide 
But all I see tells
A tale 

I tried to hide 
Now can't hide from my self

I tried to hide
Yet nature...

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Desperately seeking answers but no one to ask 
Life now seems to be a forgotten task 

Helplessly wearing my heart on my sleeve 
Constantly praying that this pain would soon leave

Quietly wondering why it happen to me
is this your way of setting me free
tell me...

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my eyes tried to tell you

golden and round the setting sun peeks
over sloping mountaintops
while cobalt shadows inch into the rust-brown crevices
like a silent blanket smothering the light of day

the moon will be full
or so they say on the six o’clock weather report
there is no sign...

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Preface preceding promiscuous philandering peccadillos
undermining energy and time not spent with missus
and mother of our precious progeny,
whereby, yours truly sought, (somewhat assertively, modestly,
and zestfully) to elicit – illicit prurient heterosexual predilections
before dark shadow of guilt crept along edge of consciousness
straining outer limits of twilight erogenous...

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The scent of underdone eggs
Reminds me of my mother
And how she tried
To make my life possible.

Something is bringing back
The smile on my face again,
Something grand is happening
In the other worlds.

For all I had been
There was a love I had seen
And for all that it was
That...

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Here you are
Again,
Reading my pain 
Thinking that it's the worst thing you ever read
Thinking I'm just a lost soul who doesn't know 
The name of the demon they fed,
I am here once more,
Bleeding my emotions to the core 
Trying so hard to make you understand...

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I tried.
Truly I did in both laughter and the tears
 but looking back at all the lost years
 the images are vague and unclear;
 so easy to forget the joy and happiness
 when there is too much regret in the cloudiness.
Taking hold of every memory...

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deepening depths take
gulp to indeed recover
such intake, smothers




....

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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 trying to sip her first glass of beer. Good grief. 20 minutes and she barely finished it. She walked to...

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Eve tried to kill Bob
with a broken door knob
last Friday at noon
when he popped her balloon.
She had a big fit.
Did you hear about it?
Yes, she’d stewed and she’d stewed
since bob was so rude.
Since bob was so rude,
yes, she’d stewed and she’d stewed.
Did you hear about...

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Tried again, I tried in vain
Far away he went so far
Train of thoughts I need to forget
Upon which my life is hanging
Forgive me, the cork of death opened.




Submitted on November 28, 2019, for Five Word Challenge Poetry Contest sponsored by Beth Evans...

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