Long Flatly Poems

The Lay of The Best Man - Part 4

I ask you this: Have you ever known a man to ‘buckle under stress’?
Or have you never seen a man have a ‘moment of madness’?
Have you not...

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"Resolving Issues"

Should a problem arise between you and another one,
Handle it maturely with them before you jump the gun.
Take the subject up with the other one affected,
Not with other people while the right one is...

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There's a Reindeer that nobody knows,
and it is, quite frankly, a shame!
He is loved by most other reindeer.
Alva, is that reindeers name!

I'll tell you the story of Alva,
whose home is in the North Pole!
This storys...

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               In the glade of sallowed comparisons
           as told by the...

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Just having an opinion or two does not mean that one is opinionated.
It's true that there have been things of which we have been falsely accused;
but for me, stubbornness is not one of them. ...

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I saw Sting in the lobby this morning, we were going out and he was coming in. Lisa nudged me, “Sting” was all she whispered. He was with a woman and a man. The woman...

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A rainbow stallion
hailed, as if a cab.
I laid a hundred bucks
under his leather saddle.
I stepped into the stirrups,
then whipped onto
his primeval back.
I’d been expecting him.
An adventure I’d been told…
I knew nothing of how to ride
and...

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The first time I met Mei Is Woe, I felt so badly, I begged our co-workers to give up a sick day in the sick day fund, not realizing they had done that so many...

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MY THOUGHTS ON LIFE
 
IF I WERE TO TELL YOU NOW THAT I WAS A HAPPY PERSON ALL THROUGH MY LIFE,I WOULD 
BE LYING.I WONT GO BACK TO MY CHILDHOOD DAYS,SOME PEOPLE DONT LIKE LONG...

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Kacha

Yes I know 
What you are saying 
Is absolutely 
True Devayani
But you are not
trying 
To understand  
That my memories
Of these wonderful
moments
Are betraying me
When I try to recall
them. 09

It has put me 
In a perplexed
situation
Dear...

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He always knew
when he got that return call from you:
The deal was done,
the negotiation was won

Sometimes winning meant a compromise
But the reason he was considered 
one of the wireless best;
he never used the bait-and-switch,
he never...

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Dear Lake, why lob here atop a mountain
    when the lowlands are so superior
    with more catchment area to fountain
    more rain to fill your vast...

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I look at the green crocodile balls placed in handcrafted bamboo basket
They look ripe and tempting.
The snake skinned vendor looks at me with hopeful eyes
His turtle legs skin with every vein visible is a testimony...

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To take the "standard deduction"
means throwing away every gift to goodwill
It means that you never spent hundreds on glasses
or saved your receipts from each blue little pill
It means that the trip that you took late...

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Hair like the beautiful brown bark on a tree,
but soft like the wind and the clouds.

Eyes shining and sparkling like the light reflecting off rippling water,
and so very deep like the oceans.

Nose, not like a...

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I grew up proud to be grandma’s favorite.
Some little rules were broken, I must admit.
These were all but childhood caprices.
At youth, my ego was broken to pieces.
When flatly was I refused love marriage. 
Settled was...

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In the beginning the world was flat.
Nature was magical and that was that.
We expressed or selves with cave drawings and cuneiform too
Cuneiform was cool because it was new. 
Later came sand script ant it was...

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A sweet young bank teller named Doris
Had a crush on her co-worker, Boris.
But one day while at work
The young clerk went berserk
When she caught Boris banging the manager, Morris.

Doris' secret admirer, Dan Danson,
Was swarthy, tall,...

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So many possibilities parade up and down the perimeter of the page.
Some wiggle their petootsies at me; one sticks out her tongue.
Being super confident, adorable, and quietly intrusive is the rage.
The word LUCKY gives me...

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Once i lived with an uncle in a sleepy coastal town
who had a very beautiful house help from upcountry
now my male cousin Kiki desired to have a relationship
with our beautiful house help who was very...

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The fiercest wind blew me away 
and to the clouds, I lost my way. 
The tinted mist clouded my eye
until I could not see the sky. 

I was so lost in the dark of night...

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I noticed her two weeks ago. 
She flew into my physics lab 
like hell itself was after her 
and tripped as she sat down. 

She's always late for classes, 
stammering her apologies, 
flustered and myopic,...

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I noticed her two weeks ago.
She flew into my physics lab 
like hell itself was after her
and tripped as she sat down.

She's always late for classes,
stammering her apologies,
flustered and myopic, her glasses 
barely perched upon...

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I noticed her two weeks ago.
She flew into my physics lab 
like hell itself was after her
and tripped as she sat down.

She's always late for classes,
stammering her apologies,
flustered and myopic, her glasses 
barely perched upon...

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I noticed her two weeks ago.
She flew into my physics lab 
like hell itself was after her
and tripped as she sat down.

She's always late for classes,
stammering her apologies,
flustered and myopic, her glasses 
barely perched upon...

Read More