Long Finishing touches Poems

The daily star Tuesday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings

Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates

most daylight hours of the year for
people...

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The daily star announces Summer Solstice 2022

Tuesday, June twenty first
at 5:13 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates

most daylight hours of the year for
people living the northern hemisphere.
Just shy...

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I was skimming Friday's paper as I waited for my barber to put the finishing touches on a customer he he was pruning,
Glancing up occasionally at the Mohawk-headed dropout who'd wandered in from off the...

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A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte 

specified such so as to issue a rhyme, 
but proceeded as this scribe 
didst git linkedin with the cutting crew,
mow or less feeling grassy us,
yet not the...

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Date  January  2048
DJ is now 21 years old 
His birthday was celebrated 
Weeks ago at Cascades. He and
The whole family enjoyed the time.
The house being built across the 
Street have 3 more months...

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The steam slowly raises from inside my mug, wrapping itself around my pencil, eventually 
evaporating into the musty atmosphere.
As I open my sketchbook I imagine all the possibilities of a world inside my head, but...

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I once joined the procession of colors and lost my heart
Till a wave colors distilled through night knocked me down dead.
Besides the mountain,  the midnight festival of colors is on.
Lying in my arms you...

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specified such so as to issue a rhyme, 
   but proceed as this scribe 
   doth git linkedin with the cutting crew
yet not the least whirlwind will offset 
  ...

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With my family and in-laws and out-laws arriving real soon,
I tried to put the finishing touches on the festive dining room,
just then the door bell rang and everyone had arrived,
with 50 extra mouths to feed...

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I was a member of the "era", good times during the "Jazz times" Coltraine, such a great
musician....
Oh, and I will never forget the "Millennium"...Whew, 20 years old in S.L.C. in a two room
combined suite with...

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it'll take a while before it gets into my blood

  I'll bide my time until it's written in stone

 run with the devil like y'know that y'should

   and I'll find a way...

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The door will not budge
It’s locked and bolted
Doubly secure
It was once wide open
He was waiting at the door
To welcome me in
Arms outstreched
Love shining in his eyes
His heart home
Decorated in all the best
Waiting for me to...

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I picked up some words,
From an over heaped pile,
Words which impressed me most.
Put them carefully onto a blank paper,
Like a practiced player placing,
Rooks and pawns on a chequered grid.
 
Seeing page after page getting filled
With...

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life is understood backwards while it moves forth

          memories epiphanies hindsight and full vision

            ...

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approximating 7.5 x 1018, or seven quintillion, 
five hundred quadrillion grains. This estimation 
courtesy of Gwendolyn Powell, High School 
from Presentation of Mary Academy (2018 
graduating class) responding to an inquiry posted 

on website https://www.quora.com/How-many-
grains-of-sand-are-there-on-Earth-and-how-many-
stars-are-there-in-the-universe...

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Sometimes, when it rains it pours.. 
There is no time to take a pause. 
You drip a drop atop a page, 
and suddenly an ocean's rage
at being trapped inside a cloud
is roaring in you, clear...

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if necessary applying pledged finishing touches
repurposing third rock for another species slated
to inherit pseudo tabula rasa after Campbells,
and broth hers detox polluted primordial soup
i.e. once cleansed of poisons, thus...I condense
my Green New Deal spiel!

Midwinter night...

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Welcome to Yellow Woodpecker Farm where the incredible food slaps you.
The cows bark, the cats bellow, the dogs mow the lawn, and the birds moo. 
Let me talk! Let me say something! Put me in...

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Don't waste time,
 On holding grudges.
    Always make sure to add,
 the finishing touches.
    
   Say you're sorry,
 When you should.
   If you make a...

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When I was young, I had a dream
and saw life in a different perspective.
I saw life as a park,
where I could just come, play and go.
I thought time was slow
so I slacked and relaxed.
I had...

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So as the fauna flakes into flasks and the distance is at ease,

so as the forgotten fallen ones are at peace and you and your life are crease,

so as the harrowing start and a seasonal...

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Mr. Ant who was feeling very dehydrated,
walked to get some relief he anticipated,
quenching his thirst he drank from the river,
falling in was swept away cold and shivering,

Lovely dove on overhead branch witnessed the scene,
plucked off...

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We have been through so much,
yet, somehow we have survived it all.
Through the good times and the bad, the sorrow and the pain, the smiles and the 
frowns,
but, here we are still standing tall.

Together we...

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The Snowflake Heart
			By Elaine Roy

T's  the heart, that falls so deeply, that leave it love,  like snow upon a meadow.
Falling  softly  as tender touches , each falling snowflakes melts; finding it...

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Life's Lesson Life's Hacks


Learning to see with your heart, 
for once, 
and see the things the eyes cannot? 

Learning to listen with your heart, 
as well,
you'll hear the things your own ears cannot tell.

Should you...

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