Long Grass is always greener Poems

In the early 70’s my husband and our first baby, Angela, moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in the middle of the night, in the summer time.  At 7:00 a.m. the next door neighbor rang the...

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In the early 70’s my husband and our first baby, Angela, moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in the middle of the night, in the summer time.  At 7:00 a.m. the next door neighbor rang the...

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There is no reason why i shouldn’t do it, i thought 
come what may and what may not. 
The grass is always greener on the other side 
I wanted to explore , to go against...

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Grass isn't  always greener on the other side born from poverty  Spanish-speaking English living  Nuyorican lots of siblings government living Brooklyn streets roaches in the cabinets rats roaming to get feed hand...

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Why do they say

you can't take money with you when you go?
So what do you do if you go out shopping?

The grass is 'always greener on the other side?
Not if you have a sandy beach...

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Green Colored Grass
   
 The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence,
But that fence is so high off the ground.
I search for a ladder so I can get across,
But...

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its funny how society greets you with a smile and dismiss you and make you cry,
society can be a be a beautiful thing and a horrible living,
but if you’re not good enough , “deal with...

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Time is a man made construct whose sole purpose is to bring an ordered form to the 
events of our lives. It has no place in the overall picture where what is…is, and what 
isn’t...

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You're a fool for starting the friction 
But I'm a fool for starting the motion 
F you, no I’m a fool for believing the notion
And giving my eyes to the intention

The northern lights fell on...

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Is your mind in the gutter,
full of what you shouldn't utter?
  Or perhaps it's your conscience
  which eats you alive with slanderous nonsense--
  about your ex, matters of sex, or your neighbor's...

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The answer used to come with great ease
My answer wasn’t an answer at all, but a complimentary question,
“What’s it like to not be a twin?”

I bypassed the story of the grape jelly on mom’s new...

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Once the smoke clears I'll overcome the burns
The grass isn't always greener, the sky is sometimes grey and dark instead of blue
Sometimes you need to take a step back to really see what's ahead of...

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Brimstone and bricks...they got hotter and higher
The wall that I built became a fortress of fire
Keep the killers out while keeping kind ones within
Every single smiling soul to me looks like a stranger of sin
Ice...

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I’m in love and happy
but sometimes he acts crappy
see my neighbour so manly and orderly
oh! They say he isn’t good in bed.

I’m in love and quite satisfied
but sometimes he seems not qualified
check out my boss,...

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there's this little place i thought was home,
but little did i know i was all alone..
living in a dream a fantasy I thought was real,
the life i was living I tried to conceal..
Through the bad...

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To the person who promised "till death do us part"

I want to start out by saying that although you didn't fulfill your promise to stay by me, I am better off than I would've been...

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The grass is always greener on the other side: says who?
It may just be perception not necessarily the truth
Ugly is not bad neither is beautiful necessarily good
It may be just perception
You see my son with...

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Hey you
if you're afraid
to let your heart go
if you're not sure
of letting all you're true feelings show
I need you to know
they're safe with me
If you're scared
of the unknown
or of those three little words
no time like...

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I noticed that the grass was always greener on the other side, as I made my way to the 18th hole and practiced my drive.

As I zip lined across with the greatest of ease, I...

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Greed is a gambler...dropping the dice...high anxiety rambler
Roller coaster ride...eyes and ears set to extreme
Back and forth up and down...black, blue, and blurred in a blink in the breeze
Jokers always looking for that big jackpot...red...

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I was never able to see so clearly.
My view constantly obstructed by your hands.
As you kept my eyes closed.
But now as I watch you walk away.
I can finally see clearly for the first time in...

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River,

where are you taking me?

What has you running away
so quickly and fervently that even 
the strongest man might be swept under 
your currents,
lost in your overwhelming rapids?
Where is it that we are going—a new world...

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I am but a simple man who hopes and prays like you.
Who asks the Lord for earthly things that never do come true.
I turn and spin out of control and do just what I please.
Until...

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All the boughs that we were shaking,
vows we were taking,
were the nows we were forsaking –
lessons in love.

Strong on style, or long on laughter?
Hard to figure what you’re after.

All the codes that we were learning,
modes...

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In a parallel universe
Is there another me? 
Somewhere in a parallel universe
Quite near, yet very far
In a magical world
Where I have long white wings
I wave them upon mighty Oceans
Against the ferocious storms
Rest them on crowded...

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