Best With Attention Poems

I wanted
peanut butter and jam
But settled
for bread and butter
I wanted a puppy
but got a hamster instead
I wanted you to live forever
Until I wished you were dead

You promised me everything
it was always less than enough
You lacked imagination
I was never interested in stuff
Instead of substance you offered...

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My mind is always running like an overflowing faucet
Like a never ending bouncing ball that someone took and tossed it
Paid for with attention that I forgot how much it costed
As my mind will sometimes lose itself and I forget just where I lost it

A mind...

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We have to write a lot of essays
and I love it - the twisting of words, 
the molding of nouns and verbs until 
thoughts are clear and paragraphs 
sit symmetrical and idealized.

I’ll write a paper, and scowling,
write another version and another 
- lavishing them with...

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Pillar of Awesomeness
You are Woman
Toiling away the long hot day
Making sure of this and that
Hasty movements more graceful than those of any dancer
Pillar of Love
You are Woman
Tending to your brood with attention and care
Making sure your men are fed, clothed, bathed
Looking lovely as ever in...

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O’er the waters of time, with attention quickly drawn,
I, Thought, soar through the heavens with Memory at my side.

By thorn and thicket, we have passed. At times we've struggled through,
as all around us tears and shreds, and yet... time we abide.

Travel we, birds of like...

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Gone is peaceful as the night draws to close
while the diminishing light and quiet constrict.
This ceiling stares
   this ceiling villifies
     this ceiling torments my sleepless eyes

Its all compounded...the procrastinated purge
spills at anxious pace with attention paid.
Neglected trains of thought...

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A majestic Marine
Who was always was there
No other human being
Could possibly compare

No possible word
Could ever truly describe
For every mention of his name
My heart and eyes fill with pride

He was a United States Marine
Illustrious and respected
Yet he demanded none
He was always there
To protect his dear grandson

The...

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The winds is too haunting
its dour, dreary and daunting
its voiceless song is wanting
for souls to listen it flaunting

Its whistling tunes that play
eerie melodies of dismay
oft sweet, oft an angered fray
they beckon me to come away

From my souls lone sojourn
where the ashes never burn
to reach out...

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Sorrow is the word of the walk around
The more you tread, it heaps abound. 
You curve your lips to mend the world
And everyone around is a story unfurled.
You listen, rapt with attention
For you have to know the flow to dam the river.
You find a way...

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I remember really feeling this void ...
I mean its really kinda hard to explain ...
It was 1985 in December ...
A month later in this world I came ...
I remember having complications...
Nurses screaming baby breathe.. but i cant??
The doctor said I mite not make it ...
Cause...

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.After Bill left the station, he made a pit stop down to the local diner, parked his car and 
hurried in to get some much needed chow.
     “ What’s  up stranger? Haven’t seen your lanky frame in this fine dining...

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   read my light show
 I shimmer 
      seemingly switch off  disappear
  reflect me at my best
make me beautiful
     by observation 

I'm not dead
 I just break my own heart
  ...

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I grin like a cat taking aim at a mouse
I groan like an old abandoned lonely house

I moan like a mother who's lost her child
I mourn like a tiger forced into the wild

I cry like a baby who need its bottle
I shake like a duck...

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Discomfort . . .
with snowfall all day long,
with gusty winds and ice storm,
there’s need to be extra careful
either to get around on foot
or just to drive around the corner.

Midwest and northwest share
usually huge snow piles
some areas with wind chills 
remind me of Chicago where I...

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A social worker bashed in my door,
seizing my kids on rumors
of bath time photographs.
On my trek to court
to rescue my children,
they forced me through
a biometric scanner
recording every detail
of my naked flesh.

I was lambasted by a judge garbed
in flowing black vestments
for exploiting innocence.
He paraded my babies
into...

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