Long Go dutch Poems

I sit here at the candlelit table in a silent plead 
Nineteenth century red wine is not what I need 
For I do believe I am beginning to hallucinate
Which means all my senses start to...

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”Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


We met in business class
Me the window, she the aisle
After...

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I think I'll write a country song
about the weasel that 'done me wrong'
We'd have been married thirty years today
if he hadn't had a penchant to stray.

I got the pickup truck, so we'll leave that part...

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The florist does deliver upon the hour-not to leave the women dour, last-minute coddling, a sycophant in fact. A Christmas turkey was spent with the in-laws; an act of bravery to cater for the nieces,...

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Emerald
Nmeri,
leaves of green. rose in red.
this star, twinkling white.
you are nature's rainbow who
paints her children with the colours of life.

Nmeri,
paint me red. paint me green.
In a nutshell, paint me with the pigment
of your skin for...

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A grove of trees, a witching wood, can almost hide day's light
And it's for sure, if you're alone, man's influence seems slight! 
Unless the negative is true, for men choose not to touch
This primal space...

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Villanelle: How much is how near enough and yet not much

How much is how near enough and yet not much
The measure of the cup is what the hand grabs
Must the common man pay the price...

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Oh why so devastated in such a state
what to wear,  to say,  on my first date 
should I be early, oh must not be late
will she think I’m totally useless or great

perhaps take...

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Sweet Mary Jane
She's always there for me through thick and thin,
Even though she knows, she'll just get burnt in the end,
We've had this affair for quite some time,
She'll always be my partner in crime,
I don't...

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I need no contest to write a poem.
The soul of my heart is where I call home.
I just look inside this very minute.
And then I know that I can win it.

It's not that contests are...

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dah-DUM, dah-DUM, dah-DUM, dah-DUM, 

If they had sung a real good song,
Would not have joined and sung along,
If my friend had not drank so much,
Would not had paid, instead go dutch,

If they had kept their...

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