Long Give it a rest Poems

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Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad dog who barks and barks
Geeze, lady, give it a rest
Your...

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The news out Armageddon is upon us and it’s time for all of us to go 
The world's armies have all gathered and they are putting on a show

Heaven is calling and everyone wants to...

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I wrote these lines 7 years ago, slightly edited today. 
Perhaps they have more meaning now than they did then.

"There are so many nuts in the soup!" 
That's what I hear and see and it's...

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"Nuts are in the soup!" 
That's what I've heard: not so absurd
Some add a pinch of spice now and then,
from wit and the sharpened nib of a pen.
Nutty little writers who like to fill
the soup...

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Give Yourself a Break

Come on, it’s time. Give it a rest
and stop beating yourself up
about things that are over and done with
when you know you did the best you could.
He’s gone now and you miss...

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I am sitting here with my pen
 Wondering what to write
 Don’t want to think of the topic
 Or the subject of love tonight
 
 Some say I write about love to much
 It’s in...

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Sick & Tired

Living my life is not an easy breeze.
I have strong winds,
Cold winds & even longs winds, you see.
I’m getting sick of the wind that
Blows against my face,
The storms that begin on a raining...

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YES DEAR!

I have here an old solution
For conflict resolution
Not to mention domestic pollution 
I say 'Yes Dear!'

When the situation is tense
With a subject like pounds and pence
To avoid sitting on the fence
I say 'Yes Dear!'

Though...

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There are some people, who think they have room to complain. 
Because they are their own reapers, who want to take their lives away. 
Well give it a rest! Atleast you have a life to...

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Constantly seeking out validation,
You don’t have to know me,
But I wanna be your favourite.
I want you to like me so much, I hate it.
Share posts or tap to follow,
Get blocked and deleted, such a hard...

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I thought of you last night
i was sitting out in the cold air
reminiscing about our first dare
Chris Brown take you down i think was the song
Up on the phone talking junk for GOD knows how...

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I tried to ignore you, but I miserably failed the test.
So, I'm posting this to unburden it from my chest.
It's in reply to your continual endeavor to protest
against those of us who enjoy writing for...

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“I’m worried about losing my job!”

Stop it!  Do it well.  Do it the best you can.  
Give it all you got – and if it ends, it ends.

“What if I can’t pay...

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Written for anybody who has had to listen to a Yipper Yapper:

Yippin’ and yappin’ all day long
Always right, while everybody else is wrong. 
 Thinking you know it all,  about everything there is, ...

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Look, anyone can stick two words together and rhyme,
But you gotta have rhythm and you gotta have time,
And you gotta have the guts to put it all on the line,
And stand up to whole world...

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ALL POWERFUL SUN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


All hail, praise to the powerful sun
It has commanded: the day has begun
Powerful streams of energy begin to flow
The once obscured, begin now to glow
The myriad of hues no longer hidden
Exposed...

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Life is full of twist and turns they start from the day we are born. When we are born 
there is a lot we don’t know. But the older we get the more are knowledge...

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KNOCK-KNOCK, WHO’S FEAR?

Do you want to know what it is I  hear?
It’s silence because I’ve heard it all before
Do you want to know what I really fear?
It’s nothing, because I’m used to fear knocking...

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We used to hang out, I used to be your friend
But that all changed when I started dating him
You started texting him and calling him constantly
You followed him and stalked him obsessively
The girl I used...

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Why are you watching me? Why am I on your list,
classified as an enemy combatant or potential terrorist?
Why are you watching me? Please tell me why I'm on that list.
Is it because I always challenge...

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There you are you sweetie pie.
You are the apple of my eye.

Such insight you have, you know the score,
'Cause you've been there and done that, whatever before.

You are so smart, much more so than most,
And...

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The existence and reality of who we truly are
The reflection we see everyday
The villain we choose to hide
The two sided coin we cannot ignore
The monster which continues to roar
Hatred we cannot hide nor ignore
For centuries...

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Love had no part in my life as a kid,
If it did then it kept itself well hid.
For years and years I longed for it to show,
If there was a God , He must have...

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(07/21/11)

They asked: who do we turn to
When the politicians no longer care?
And the word  change is flying in the air.
Every country, every island, every nation
Is feeling this devastation.
Only 10% of the world-are well to...

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I am looking at Poetry Soup’s contests, but nothing seems “hot”. 

Thought something would pop up in my imagination, but it does not.

Began reading other people’s poems, hoping to stir the brain pot.

Made some comments...

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