Long Downsides Poems

"Present!"

It's a lackluster answer (1) to simple life question,
"Hi! How is it going Mom? You feel OK?"
She was lonely for sure, saw no chance of a rescue,
She fought for her kids, though art dreams went...

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                                Sometimes, I feel...

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More Beautiful With Age?

Do men grow more beautiful ageing?
It may not be fair but seems true,
Some process that’s secretly working
To bring a man’s heart into view.

And women seem openly jealous,
Divining miraculous change,
While counting their wrinkles...

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We began our late winter do-over
with a dirty ceramic bowl
during a too-much snowstorm.

Well, no,
obviously that's not where this rebirth story begins
but neither is a cream-colored 
and clean
bowl
where this story ends.

Anyway,
I look at Matilda's mac and...

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3/4/25
"Time"

People often rat pack
Quick to have the last laugh
It's a sad fact
That we never could get past that
Time is something we can never have back

Few heed the forecast
Torches pass
Opposing forces clash
Since the prehistoric past
Waters roaring
Weather...

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‘Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.’-Cormac McCarthy



Why didn't they kill me... 
why am i still here...?
Being successful is my goal...
being flat broke, 
my biggest fear 

The pain is...

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Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems,
You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams. 
Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook,
You have to...

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I believe Earth is much better than Heaven.
I’ve done it, it’s over, look there, I said it.
But before you get angry with me, or uptight,
read now this poem, and I’ll explain why.

If Heaven is what...

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I swear, my parents act like they were never teens in a pandemic growing up.

I was watching “Perry Mason,” an HBO show set in the 1930s. Perry gets mail out of his mailbox and I...

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You know that feeling?
That empty existence,

That lack of emotion,
It doesn't make much sense..

It's lonely and hollow,
And only tears follow...

A rut that you're stuck in,
A hole that you've dug...

You don't know how to crawl out of,
And...

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What arms wrap 'round when I need someone there?
What lips touch mine to show they care?
What hands are made to show me love?
What eyes are shining with love I speak of?

There are no arms, no...

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You're just higher then most.
Your creativity and intelligence set you apart,
from others met coast to coast.
We are much alike in heart and soul,
Does it really matter if we don't like to bowl?
Intimacy was all I...

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Judy,
Tell me how do you sleep at night
Were you at times baffled
When dreams seemed shattered
In dreams remained a miracle
Were you at times like her?
Changes like season
Today I'm motivated, Tomorrow I'm not
Or have you given a...

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Down, so many things forced down, 
they force you 		look down, lie down,
even music tracks “comma, down, doobee down.” 
	The tracks the coyote left in the snow
drew my eyes down, the cat is missing. 
Poor...

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Take a look inside
& you will surely find

The knowledge they hide
From us in order to preside

The rules have been applied
& now we're left to divide

Water full of fluoride
Only making us collide

Nothing but downsides
As we're left...

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Life comes with moments of sadness
touched with moments of pain
but it also comes with moments of joy
I have loved, lived and breathe
the upsides and the downsides of life
I have sacrificed many things
indulged in the finer...

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