Long Filter out Poems

 This should be read as though sung as a Country Western song

I searched the junk food aisle 

And the basin of a bowl (looked real, real hard there)

I learned that the whiskey bottle beer...

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What if we make it in time 

Took my eldest brother of heart
I was age eight
Routing me through different foster homes
I could turn to nothing other than art
Script my life to a page, my newly...

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I tried so hard, but you were too fast, clicking gracefully on high heels down the 
shady block, laughing at me plodding in saddlebacks:  Can't you keep up?
I tried so hard, but you were...

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I am a differeent incarnation of  a poet who garnered a lot of praise for writing a poem on a 
subject matter a lot people thought of  consequence, as do I.  So...

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passengers gather while their turn awaits
  very few standing out
  except for one, sprawling along my seat
  room for me, just about
  awkward two-handed pillow cupping head
  beyond waking, no...

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With a desk, a cluttered room
Through cracks in shutters I catch the moon
Whirl my tangible face once around the threshold
(Maybe my focus can be found).
What is this I grapple with?
Desire? Or hope?
Perhaps the thought that...

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I smile, deceiving time, but my bewitching heart weeps,
In the evenings when loneliness spreads its canvas with sparse stars.
To love you – means I wish you fields of poppies under the illuminated moon,
Means that your...

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To build a house out in the wood?
We had the feeling that we could,
But one thing’s clear, we understood
It’s water first, or all in vain.

We hired a crew to drill a well;
They gave it what...

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In the grand days of old let the truth be told/

Those ships and mate's in plight,

With ancient fool's who had launched in an all night battle !

The one who stayed alone and quiet would lose/

A...

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An Ode To Morse code

The click click clack 
from pounded brass 
the words develop extensive
The heat of the tubes 
warms up the room
when temperatures are receded 

Deep into the night 
makes it's flight
to detector diodes...

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Scatter
By Laura Dee battle 
January 16, 2015

The audience has gone inside 
Where ecstasy will go to die 
I took a long ride with bittersweet youth 
Left here alone without the truth 

But there is hope...

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Historiography is no job for the coward.
if you are doubtful, locomate to the “cow ward”.
Summon Ibn Bantuta, Jan vansina, Samuel Johnson and Cicero ,
they all know history is made in every scenario.

“What is history” ,...

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Questions and Answers

We are overloaded with responses
To questions we care little about:
What to buy and other nonsense--
Marketing crap without a doubt

Seems the only questions that matter
Are the ones that help you know yourself.
They're the ones...

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The Honest Song
By Laura Dee (Kevin Robey)
October 2, 2014

Got miles of feet marching my way
In the middle of the night they calmly speak
The chill I feel but cannot say
So fast to kill they make me...

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The walk that my feet have traveled

The walk that my feet have traveled
The heart that my love has had…
Blankets on beaches, bare feet in the sand
And the ocean so subtle even as I can see...

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My soul, oft chosen compensate
does arc, soft spoken in its contemplate,
so chosen, like some agile counter base
to lead in thee ~ injustice to erase!

All error, that this timing could replace
to yesteryear, the idea seeming craze,
and...

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By Laura
April 23, 2015

Missing are times I wasn't feeling like this
A symphony of monotones inscribed in the bliss
What if the cackling clowns are prophets in disguise?
don't think that I can trust the dreams projected in...

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FABELTHIRTY part two

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Add more friends by copying and pasting the wording below and send to your 
friends and family: Oh woe tis only mee the FAN...

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The best things in life are free, nothing from your pocket is needed *.

Ray of sunshine on a cold day. Riding the ocean waves in the summer.
A hug from the one you love. A good...

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(lyric rewrite of Questions and Answers)

We’re overloaded with canned responses
To questions that we don’t care about:
Like what to buy and other nonsense--
Just marketing without a doubt

The only questions that seem to matter
Are questions that help...

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To You from Nighttime Skies  


Soft and slow the evening breeze
Does filter out the day
Silently it sways the trees
In perfect night display

A clouded veil does wrap the sky
In grayish darkened hues
This curtain’s dreary night...

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By Laura Dee Battle
January 3, 2015

Match these lights to forgotten memories
Make the sea so carefully calm and hum along 
The silence makes me itch away the misery
Be still, my dear, and speak the words you...

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We are never free,
We are slaves, slaves with free will
But free will is too an illusion
An illusion of us as a nation,
An illusion that shows justice raining supreme
But supreme, is the devil with his lies...

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O' heart, I wonder how 
you can store
so many different 
emotions of ours
in just thy four puny 
chambers
while pumping away the 
liquid of life

O' heart in you we 
discover love
but side by side you 
harbour...

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Departure

You could say I lost the plot
The plans I made from what I’m not
I think you know my blood is thick
On days when stares tell me i’m sick

My toes are cold in fallen snow
On mountain...

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