Long Got lost in the shuffle Poems

Every state is a verse, and America is a poem. 

         Can we still seek a ray of hope in the middle of vast gloom?
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Call of the wild

We talkspeak and nothing much is 
said until a bright spore spot spawns
and gets a seed for sale—compliant
of brotherly love passions filler like dirty
socks in a hamper  forgotten   we...

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years of writing and learning
working
guts spilled
heart ripped out
torn to holes
stabbing myself open
and spreading myself thin

learning this about that thing
this thing about that stuff
computer whizz i am not
but one comes along
and i am forever lost in...

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The pressure and pain in each other's family of another friend that slips away and now
you find yourself in need of someone to talk too.  And in each family and every of the
thousand's that...

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In the midst of mess and dust
Of knickknacks and trinket boxes turned to rust,
sat a small, dirty, bag,
dog-earred and worn; the sides beginning to sag.
Among its contents of pictures and cards,
Reminders of love and life,...

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I love my stepdad; he's the only dad I know.
 From him I know that I can learn and grow.
 I can look up to him because he's my role model
 And I am so...

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When a celebration feels like a business dinner...
When you judge not the sin, but condemn the sinner...
When silence is deafening...
When you wish for an ending...
When every word is laced with disinterested contemptuous ire...
When everything you...

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Electioneering

Somewhere in the mind of America is the simmering consciousness of legislative morality… where the politicians and rhetoricians are more than magical magicians

I see you America, with your brains spinning and your eyes rolling
Fingers wagging...

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I fear most Church steeples are drowning in sin
And like Country Clubs, cater to folks acting part,
Way too holy for sinner, too blessed to be sick,
Always blaming the victim, God’s grace a lost art.

The rich...

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Outcasts

Come; hear ye outcasts, 
Ye lost in the shuffle,
You are chosen among those fighting,
for rank in the scuffle. 
Your undying pursuit, though seemingly at a distance.
The unrelenting passion, fueling without resistance.

Come; hear ye rejected, 
Cut...

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I don't know why I bother to try

even though I know, you'll never be satisfied.

I'm not what you want, and I'm not what you need.

but you're twisting and turning my reality.

I'm lost in the shuffle,

buried...

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I pray today brings me wealth.
   Not monetarily but spiritual health.
You see I’ve been backsliding some.
   And I don’t like the feelings that have come.
I took my eyes off the Lord...

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You had been once a living bone, full of potential and motive,
But someplace alongside the manner, you forgot your really worth and worthiness,
Lost in the shuffle of existence's needs and distractions,
You unnoticed your own boom...

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A lie is not a pretty thing,
It's ugly and corrupt.
It starts out small and minimal,
But grows and gets built up,

By things we say and things we do,
To get us out of trouble,
That came about by...

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Efficiency

I can not leave yet, 
the ominous green light on the coffee pot...
just went out, 
but the brew inside, 
is still hot.

There are a number of ideas, 
that would be lost in the shuffle, 
if...

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Pains of displeasure gnawing
At my insides
Screams of disappointments
Harmonizing with my outcries

Wrong turns and deceptive trust
My self-worth equality of zero
The currency says “In God We Trust”
Yearning for my designated hero

I am a broken vessel, lost in...

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Addicted to modern technology you say?
Nah, I could live without my Mac
Well, at least for maybe an hour or so
Before a withdrawal attack

First thing in the morning you'll find me here
Surfing and learning new things
Opening...

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Addicted to modern technology you say?
Nah, I could live without my Mac
Well, at least for maybe an hour or so
Before a withdrawal attack

First thing in the morning you'll find me here
Surfing and learning new things
Opening...

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Curiosity sat next to the dead cat
While the horse wouldn’t be lead to water
A camel did cry looking through the needle eye
Henry the VIII had another daughter

A moss-less stone at a glass house was thrown
And...

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A wafting thunder down deep with lost fragments of heart
Ponderous and measuring, abandoned deep in the dark
Nourishment degraded decaying love forever lost
Damaged limb from limb life’s lonely bitter cost

Taken by chase, a dragon’s breath allure
Once...

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A heart that was once only mine
She had me within her coal eyes
I gave her my love all the time
I never held a deep disguise

Now days I’m lost in the shuffle
A heart that was once...

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The Ripple

A place, 
safe.
Close, 
not far.
Here, 
not there.

The storm, 
relentless.
The power,
horrific.
The temper, 
violent.

Children, 
lost in the shuffle.
Made to be, 
the pons in the game.
Walking the tightrope, 
between houses, 
like circus clowns, 
without makeup, 
but made...

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