Long Just around the bend Poems

When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped

We started from Thatsnot, OK
Which was more or less ok
But then...

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And the cemetery was ageless... 

As I walked up to the elaborate granite bench your ashes had been buried in, I saw the forty-foot bronze angel that was watching over you during your rest. But,...

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Inspection Time 2018!

Understandable dear reader, 
     how this scribe bull lime
me bloke omitted mention of 
     one bedroom flat as
reason nigh rote this rhyme

Ma faux pas faw...

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For one full year I have been thrown in the lion`s den
And the lion has been running  and jumping
And pulling savagely at my leg
The philistines also surround me 
with a hidden weapon dancing beneath...

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A Blessing In Disguise

Many years ago, I was asked to give the blessing at dinner.  As a guest, this was not something I was accustomed to and therefore declined, finding myself in a losing...

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It was an illicit affair, you'd think, they wouldn't dare, they believed, if we handle it with care no one would be aware. Bur they made a grave err and it became a very heavy...

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You can never be free of old love
it'll always be caged in your heart and head
At any time the ghost of old love can hijack your brain
turn it into a forest of monkeys 
shaking the...

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A strange sight upon a lonely road.
A dream ripped in half.
Looking closer, I wonder what was the travail.
An old price tag attached, making me wonder at what price it was sold.
Along the edges, tattered and...

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how it came to be this way,
s/he just can’t believe---
as the cliché goes,
“it seems like just yesterday”
that they had been rolling, 
bouncing, 
drilling in the hay &
yet,
s/he wasn’t spared what others
told him/her would be
the 
inevitable---
for...

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Just Around the Bend…
                 by Odin Roark

Make-believe knows
Hand in hand
Guardian and child
Never ceases to be
As words meet words
Sentences find...

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We all fit where God has chosen and yet we believe it’s us who have coveted

That we do the desiring, selling tickets to your mother and then selling a dance and then you

You swam upstream...

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Inspection Time 2018!

Dum...dum...dum...dum...DUH -
     anxiety shot thru stratosphere upon
     good news notification aboot
a fortnight from this last
     Friday of August tooth

  ...

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To serve and protect
Any person with an intellect can see that to serve and protect you must serve and 
protect and not beat and neglect
I’ve seen police that made people hit the deck for the...

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The story of two different highway drives
But it all amounts to a strive
The event is a Greyhound male bus Operator named Jeff
The Female Trucker being Jennifer
It was the California Highway 101
Just around the bend
Suddenly the...

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Late August evening’s high
   the sun set easing in deep and low
   loitering and hanging in the north western sky
   barely giving light to the world below.
A mix of...

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Leaked excerpts from the journal of a
disgruntled federal, civil servant employee. 
These views and opinions are not shared by 
the Environmental Protection Agency.
These excerpts were made public by an anonymous source.


My knightly mission is to...

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If it comes from a plant or grows from the ground,
Whose to govern it, when you talk its just sound

My life is spinning out of control,
And on my body its taking its toll,

I need the...

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sergeant pepper smokes his stogie in a capsized submarine-
lucky lucy clad in yellow wears her purple diamond ring
rainbow demons play gin rummy on a sunlit july morn-
captain kirk on planet cestus wrestles with a lizard...

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Cliche
By Laura Dee Battle
April 4, 2015

The winter tale of impending doom 
The fear that looms behind the moon
Strongly displayed the pain that made me stay 
I never felt too brave until I died that day

Relay...

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Have you ever wondered when a friendship forms? 
When is that one moment in time when random people come together…
and their worlds begin to rhyme?

Have you ever wondered if there are people out there walking…
perhaps...

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Streams are running quickly and the snow’s still on the ground
When lightning strikes the mountains and there’s thunder all around.
It’s raining in the foothills and the water’s coming down.
It’s headed for the city, to the...

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We've met somewhere before
I felt it the minute I opened the door
Knowing you all the while
Looking at that familiar smile

Our souls met so very long ago
Way back when the wind didn't blow
So hard against the...

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sure,
you heard rumors a few months ago that there might be a move to
costa rica or mexico,
with the foreknowledge that the company that resided in your very building
in which you then currently worked,
collapsed in on...

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Our dad drives with the recliner down like a waterbed as uncapped bottles of water gushes down. My older sister putting on her third face now, none of it hides her stuck-out tongue at me....

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Had a beer for the first time in a while I can say,
Just a single one,
And already I feel the need to bleed in a way.
Feeling misunderstood is normal..
as the world grows colder.
Connected in so...

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