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For Life's Sake
I appreciate
The patriotic voices
It does my heart good

I truly believe
In what makes this country great
But I would say this:

The Constitution
And Bill of Rights created
To ensure freedom

Against tyranny
And to stop invaders from
Attacking our homes

We have the...

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Categories: hem and haw, age, allegory, america, analogy, fear, life, money,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Will It Or Won'T It
Will It or Won’t it?

I bought a car in ‘98
that was made in ’92.
It had seventy-seven thousand miles
but it still looked like new.

I showed off my little car
to most everyone I saw.
My grandson changed the...

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Categories: hem and haw, travel, car, me, Grandson,
Form: Rhyme
The Dance
The world is filled with some fancy dancers
who'll come a prancing through your bedroom door
They'll do a pretty good job of makin’
you think they're spot on what you're lookin’ for

But they'll hem and haw and...

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Categories: hem and haw, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The High School Crush
I know it was a long time ago
In a place now far away
But way back then I had a crush on you
That I remember still today

I never acted on it then
And am in no position...

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Categories: hem and haw, nostalgia, life, me, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Small Acts of Kindness
When a pregnant woman gets on a bus,
  Be the first to give her your seat.

When you see an old lady on a busy corner,
  Help her across the street.

When someone's carrying a...

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Categories: hem and haw, blessing, people, thanks,
Form: Rhyme



Starry Fabric
All nature’s linked, the heavens with the earth,
in star formations, gas, galactic dust,
elusively in roles of death and birth
however random seems their wanderlust.
We peer in space with telescopic sight
that oft may miss the tracery that’s...

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Categories: hem and haw, earth, nature, poetry, space, stars, universe, world,
Form: Sonnet
Some Lives Matter More Than Others
Black lives matter
yes they do
Blue lives matter too.

Green and red and yellow lives
I’m all on board - no lie.
But when you say that “ALL lives matter”
you’ve lost me, and here’s why:

I seriously doubt that you
agree...

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Categories: hem and haw, political,
Form: Rhyme
Playing Games
There aren't many games I play
For most of them require
Some patience and some strategy
Or, at the least, desire.

I quite enjoy my "Words with Friends"
But usually I lose.
The very first word that I see
Is likely what...

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Categories: hem and haw, games,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Art Or Not?
I wonder what would the Father of
Modern Art have thought
Could he have seen the work consisting
Of a squiggle and a dot
Hanging in a big museum
Where the viewers hem and haw
And try to tell each other...

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Categories: hem and haw, artart, art, life,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things