Long Close to the vest Poems

I sit here and I ponder will I be one of yours? A deathbed confession that you have to relieve yourself of before exiting this world
A regret, a mistake, a lonely night without her there,...

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Everybody got a Hollywood life story
to tell
More meat on the bone
give juicier bites 
to sell
Nobody ever turns in a tarnished silver screenplay
Those warts and mistakes
get Photoshop casting couch edited away
Baby Jane rude attitude don’t make...

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Can anyone please tell me
Or try to make me see
Just how to move on 
To help myself get along
And to put aside
These feelings I harbor so deeply inside
God knows how hard on my own I've...

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I'm in love you so deeply that words could never quite entirely express
You can sense it from the pit of my soul
On through this heart of mine which beats inside my chest
And so I allow...

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'Mosquito Pete' (or 'Skeet') for short
A seasoned guy, the strangest sort
It was the only name we ever knew
His story known by very few

A weathered old maverick on a country lane
A bit peculiar, not at all...

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I pretend I'm alright
And put my best stance forward
Wear my brave face
Tryin to be smooth
Just tripped on my shoelace
What's a girl to do

Busted, razed, flat broke
My foot slipped off the pedal and into the spoke
Out...

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A sometimes Yin
sometimes Yang
climate health advocate,
reading Thich Nhat Hanh,
unlyrically speaking of the Arts,
Muses of Communication,
creating resiliently wealthy Community,

S/he warmly considers
Why is such a simple book
so difficult to remember,
and breathfully incarnate?
Soaring through each chapter
for the third...

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There are a few gentlemen I admire
Whose lovely poems set my heart afire
Though we live far apart
They all captured my heart
Their romantic verses make me perspire.

I dare not expose each poet by name
Cuz I'm afraid...

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I have opinionated friends.
Bonita will not wear a mask unless it is Halloween.
It violates her constitutional rights.
What about other people’s rights? I ask her.
She scoffs.

I have opinionated friends.
Shirley says all news that goes against her...

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Been traveling through this old world, 
And I've picked up my pass, 
To the oldest game on earth, 
Where my luck won't run dry. 
  
And it's been a lesson forged in sorrow, 
A heartache...

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Children On Leashes

Children on leashes go for a walk
As they cut the lines with their minds
They jump from captivity

Running away from their crimes

Thinking about animal life...
Dogs come to mind without leashes
Biting off faces they find

But...

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Hesitation persists
Glazed over hurts, trying to push on
Turn a new page
Eyes open to possibilities uncharted
Waters unsure
But one thing remains
LOVE!
Let it shine through
Radiating in all directions for all to see
Still holding close to the vest
Scared to...

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The first words openly spoken
Mama,is the soup hot yet ?
said as I
Sat on her hip

Mrs.Cotten
The visiting nurse
No longer
Could she quip

She'll talk when
She has something to say
Make her ask for 
The things that she wants

A sibling...

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A slate soil though rocky grows grapes with more flavor,
Though few of earth's farmers might guess this is true,
The ground of man's planting can burnish his fate,
(Though men born on a rock field won't always...

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The Purity Wheat Domain

There on the sandy ground a mountain grew
Near the motionless skeleton deserts shore 
An empty basin’s brain of dirt and grains
Exploded out exposing the great dome
Raised a monolithic surreal thing 
Never before...

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Roots of a choirboy
and the mystery of his love for music,
in the life of being...
the fair one!

Does anyone have a clue...
what the fair one goes through?
Franz will tell you,
and what about Chopin?

Amadeus will answer...
beyond anyone's...

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     After the Fall


In the sameness of a day.
Reaching to far can lose your way.
In one blink of the future lost.
You learn the devistating cost.

You pick yourself up off the floor.
Not...

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March days in Ohio
sometimes a lion, sometimes a lamb
They often trade places, whenever they can.
Today: Hi 50's-open blue sky with napping winds.
the Sun makes all the difference.
Sweatshirt, jeans, shades dress the day. I sit in...

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Criticism can cut close to the bone, 
An area where sensitivity hides; 
Make it rather close to the vest, 
so squabble won't start from both sides.

Attitude in a cautious or
Reserved manner is pleasing; 
Instead of...

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The dye job on Pat’s hair was patchwork at best.
Colors popping in and out all the way to her chest.
Beautician not licensed she just confessed.
But did she do it as a dare, joke or was...

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He's not in a hurry, he takes his sweet time 
A man once rich, now worth but a dime
Twenty years sober, a hard drinker he was
Frequenter of casinos, in his long-ago buzz

A man who stumbled...

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Waterloo Clerihew 23-Skidoo

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 Corsica is where he got his start
One of the greatest commanders in history
His manner of death a 200-year-old mystery

Napoleon played it close to the vest
With his armies he was always the...

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