Long Get your feet wet Poems

Her full name was Labyrinthia Pennyweight Babineaux, but her closest friends called her Libby. She was of blended French, German, and Native American heritage. Her Great Great Grandparents were said to have come from a...

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I am feeling insecure
I’m upset in regretful waterfalls
Colliding like flower pedals
But I will endure, I will endure

I am coping with this sorrow
There’s no tomorrow,
Just today to live
I want to get, but I’m left to give

I’m...

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I opened Paris' letter and cry


my heart dropped
my fingers trembled
I opened Paris' letter
mama it's been three days ...
then the dam burst, 
not the happy kind
unregretfully
the kind that spells gloom
sobs of tears roll down my face
uncontrollably...

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She Cries Daughter's Absence

my worst fears realized
my daughter gone missing
my one and only
precious hope in life
it's beyond surreal
it's being torn over and over,
by those black bears running down river
ripping me apart time and time
if only...

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I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise                       ...

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dearest mama

it's been three days now
but it seems a lifetime
I'm sorry it had to be this way
I really am
I can only imagine you on a crescent moon
lost in a crater, yelling at me
mama I'm sorry
a...

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Glimmer is her body of a water 
Deep crystal clear surrounded by 
overgrown trees and wild flowers 
Situated between two villages  
also known as the lovers pond 
Where every young lovers met and 
had...

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10 29 08

Senator Obama said it's time for a change
While Senator McCain lashes out about his age
Obama's cool-calm and collected
He never let's his opponent see him break a sweat
Athough McCain says that he's still a...

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she listened to his whisper


he was so chipper
she listened to his whisper
their desires finally met
she only wanted to dip her feet wet
it was just so right
for that first night
just only her feet
getting royaly treated
he wasn't...

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Eyes dry, I look out at THEM. They crawl in the dirt with a trail of tears shedding like a
long haired dog's coat in the summer time.
Anger build up inside of me as I watch...

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We are aliens on another planet
We are upset because of all of life's debt
I trust that our problems will fade away
We are like the trillion stars in the midnight sky...I will be thinking of you...

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I've been on this road before, been so sore
My heart has been truly torn down to the floor
I need space to roam and a place to call home
I want to run this race and the...

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LIARnull and void inside my bloods boils. 
It burns and it churns.
lurching forward, returns.
Now I am in the place where I started, no grace.
No supper, no begging, or bartering.
just tears dried  up, here on...

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Nightly, I wander in shadows of a recurring dream 
and find myself wading through a shallow stream.
The Ancient of Oaks calls from beyond the thickets,
its gentle whispers mingling with chirping crickets.

I cannot guide my steps...

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Time has passed slowly in the blink of an eye,
Because my heart was wiped away, like sand with the tide.
It's tossing and turning in the ocean's cold grip,
Asking, "What did I do for this treacherous...

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Thanks for destroying poetry
It was fun while it lasted
Your constant whining, relentless plea
You poets are all alike, filled with hatred
Mad at the world, denouncing lost loves
Heart breaking? Release the white doves
Let me play the violin...

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I love that we have memories
Even though as the years pass we may begin to doubt them
I cannot imagine…I cannot fathom…
what life would be without them.

On the river of life…when times are difficult…
or when we...

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Words on the page  

A face and a hand in a grand illustration,
still in the corner I hide
Formed of this feel and its lengthened frustration,
longing to come but inside

Thoughts that I bear, like a...

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Hiking the canyon, the trailhead
below, down the stairs we would dread
in a few hours or so.
Beautiful day, sunny and hot,
Lovely tall pines, shady in spots,
Onward, upward we go!

Forty creek crossings, back and forth
cliffs to the...

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Once again, I lay awake
Wishing that sleep would grab and take
Me away to a better place
Where happiness lies face to face

Open waters, rolling hills
Tragic endings, exciting trills
Through foreign nations and mysterious lands
It's almost as if,...

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Santa Barbara, Summer 2017

Monday
I walked on the bluffs above the sea.
Orange poppies bloom in the dunes.
I discovered
the labyrinth:
smooth stones spell the path.
Peaceful pilgrimage.

Tuesday
Walked on the beach and smelled:
Tar from the oil seeps,
fennel,
coastal sage,
eucalyptus.
And, of course,...

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We all have troubled waters that we must cross,
And we hope to reach the other side without suffering any loss.
Sometimes we have to get our feet wet to reach the other side,
And like waters deep...

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It is the distinct pressure I welcome
fighting eagerly, within these walls of time,
to salvage what I may from loss.
I dig for it; like a restless adolescent I dig for calming.

And pleasure, yes, bring it forth...

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Written By:  D. Collins 12/9/20


You made your play, and I just played with it.
You booked a new stud, and dove deep, down in it.
You blocked me so I couldn't cock-block you.
You being the shot...

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Yesterday's Poem
By Franklin Price
03/04/2022

Just in case you have been following
The poems I've written every day
Since January eighteenth
When my Barbara passed away

Yesterday, I did not write one 
Other things got in the way
I joined the Senior...

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