Long Bypassed Poems

They say when it rains it pours,
and I say:     Does it ever!
For I remember such a time as that.
It was a time when each day when I woke,
   ...

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O "My life is rich and beautiful because of You!"
O How your love is both faithful and true to me!
O How deep is your precious love to me!
O How wonderful and O How marvelous and...

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Not every woman’s dream 
 	of procreation 

can be fulfilled;

not every woman dreams
	of procreation, 

her body thrilled.

But loved and lovers’ inclinations – 
	recreation
not 	re-creation – 
cannot, will not be stilled.

until

one day

intervention
bypassed her – 

she –...

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A Storm is brewing, quietly churning above.
Residents working to prepare a town tradition.
Mobilizing able citizens, attempts to guarantee success.
A hundred year tradition, the town's shining gem
Times are changing, still they cling to the past.
As if...

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I can remember passing through
this town as a child,
stopping for a pie
on our way north.
Now it’s bypassed – barely more
than a clot lodged 
in the spidery veins of a map.
Most of the houses are empty,
the...

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Is it cool that it’s not cool? Am I making a stink with no sense of smell. Don’t tell me it’s okay to say how I feel then throw me into an emotional jail. I...

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Delusion and Reference 
(Paranoia) 

Once there was only one, not fun, 
So then this became two, did moo,  
But my mum thought there were two, 
There was her, and then guess who, 
God said...

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I knew what I should’ve done, 
What most men would do, 
Ride the donkey and insist, 
That Mary walk, lower than me. 

But I knew right from wrong, 
And as she was pregnant, 
I considered...

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ELECTRIFICATION   OF  UDELNAYA   MARKET



Thank goodness
New glass steel towers are cleaning up the mess
Of Udelnaya market.  Traffic was too fast  *
Street is pedestrianised and bypassed
Bright lights are lit ...

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Policy or personal
questions? In the poem Two White Wines
a child adopted from Cambodia
is a thing of beauty, and so she is
as she showed herself to be yesterday. Lovely. However
the poet implies market, i.e. economic, forces...

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I went to Heaven…..
Why I went there and
how I got there….
now there’s the story.

Went there to plead my case.
Couldn’t afford an angel so
one was appointed for me.
Unlike Clarence this guy already
had earned his wings –...

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The answer used to come with great ease
My answer wasn’t an answer at all, but a complimentary question,
“What’s it like to not be a twin?”

I bypassed the story of the grape jelly on mom’s new...

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By 
Renee Denise Gross
(Grasshopper*)

#"HAROLD and MAUDE"

Harold, poor Harold, Death Defying, Life Denying...

and then came...

Another day: dullness, bleakness, weakness

Loathing

Hi Mom!

Remember Me? You Swam right passed me, just went right ahead and

bypassed ME...

You surely Soul Scorched Torched...

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If you think that the Bible’s literally true
You may be in danger of Hell fire,
And I’m not even saying I know Hell exists,
Though the Bible sure talks of God’s ire.

There is much in the Bible...

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When the world won’t let me be,
And religion just screams.
And everyone keeps telling me,
What they think I ought to think.
And by the looks of things,
I don’t think I want their version of peace.
Peace doesn’t blame,
Peace...

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Take My Hand, And Be My Love
By Rick Rucker

Come with me, and be My Love,
Only seeing blue skies Above!

At odd moments, throughout the day,
At tape of recent events, in my mind, I play,

All of my...

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I was told yesterday
That someone else will come and forever stay

At first, I was a little confused
Because I didn't understand the news

A few months later, I looked at my mother
And thought to myself, 'what's happening...

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... Lift up your eyes,
and look on the fields;
for they are white
already to harvest
John 4:35


Does the white man know,
has he been made aware?
The times of the Gentiles
draws to an end
Thus, God’s Word do declare

Chief prince...

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I need to tell someone about this
The people I must tell  I no longer have
Nor did I ever dry your eyes boy 
Men aren't allowed to be sad
This was the final blow
Why was I...

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An extant place, some say a mythological place that only exists in the minds of fools. Nonsense! I have seen it with my own eyes. It is an intangible land that only grants access to...

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INDIAN    HEAD,    SASKATCHEWAN

Used to live in Indian Head   -  never heard of  it  ?
An island of trees on the treeless prairie railway;
Unchanging oasis in...

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That question never left his eyes.... Uncertainty
Too many twisted lies..... Anxiety
Foreboding... Dread
Nothing left to be said

He stood muted in his room, and never fathomed
Why the rage raged through his little frame
But why no word would...

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It was a whiteout in bitter cold.
             You think you fell, though you don’t really recall.
		       ...

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Flashing memory of pretty little faces, 
Touching eloquence of paint- brushes 
Sounds of the gentle wind on the tree leaves 
And I whispered, "Poet, will you tell me about a poem you loved once?" 

Mingling...

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Friends gathered to play 'Murder Mystery' online
Each person playing a role by game assigned.
One was a doctor, one was a teacher, one worker in nightclub,
With other roles assigned for fictitious group who met in a...

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