Best Zaps Poems

Love
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Love approaches and does not scare.
Love bears and does not let go.
Love cares and does not shrink.
Love declares...

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Lustrous words reach across the Miles
Tugs heart strings and makes one Smile

Speaks of Love and Starry Nights
Heavenly whispers - wondrous Sights

Invites one on...

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Zany Z’s

Zany zoo of zaftig zebras,
Zarnder manes, zebus with ziffs,
Zip through zawns, zigzag with zest
Wearing zories and a zoster
From too much zimstern, zabaglione and ziti-
Zucchini,...

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stir distant rumbles

  zig zag wink heat lightning's zaps--

    sheets of rain scream down


       ...

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Azaleas putting on spring frocks of
Beautiful shades of salmon or pink.
Calling bees to pollinate;
Delighting humming-birds with drink.

Everything is new in spring,
Fruit trees gorgeously attired.
Gardens turning...

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Gone
After your last breath I was defeated,
Body, soul and spirit taken down.
Caressing memories became my new world,
Drowning in the past was solid ground.
Everything you did...

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Her jack-o-lanterns flicker in the room
Bringing that eerie feel to those who look
The witch cackles as she stirs her cauldron
An evil brew which inside looks...

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New Orleans summertime temperatures rise.
Mellow sounds of smooth jazz softly plays.
I drink mint juleps on these long lazy days.
It's sticky and too hot until it...

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With everybody often so late
I am on a war path with loneliness 
Been booed deaf by the lazy wail of curtains
And the chime of wall...

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[Limerick Sequence]

There's a sparkle of glee in his eyes
when he catches a glimpse of my size;
he scoots my way
to make his play,
but I throw him...

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Cell phone zombies walking with heads hanging down,
Eyes fixed on a cell phone, not looking around,
Bumping into things they don’t want to see,
Never looking up...

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A-ADJUSTS WITH YOU IN EVERY SITUATION
B-BETRAYAL IS THE THING THEY NEVER DO
C-COMFORTS YOU
D-DOESN'T LEAVE YOU
E-EMPHASIZE YOU
F-FAVORS YOU ALWAYS
G-GUFFAW AT YOUR SMALL THINGS
H-HAVE FUN WITH YOU
I-IMPRINT...

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Winkin Blinkin And Nod, Sans...
Wonderful World Of Dreamland Furloughed!

Hours elapsed since I did sleep off
and feed my belly from the trough.

What...the...creaking screech re: sound
ding, (an...

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Summer heat zaps my get-up-and-go,
so I’m resting and taking things slow,
loving cold drinks, TV,
comfy couch, and AC! 
I’m too wise to invite heatstroke woe!



written June...

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My God, almighty God, the heart of God.
I burst with words that fill my heart of hearts.
A love it dawns and fills my holy rod.
It...

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