Long Make the grade Poems

The news out Armageddon is upon us and it’s time for all of us to go 
The world's armies have all gathered and they are putting on a show

Heaven is calling and everyone wants to...

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I don’t like what I see; the camera keep staring at me; I don’t like what I see the stars keep shining above me and the earth is  moving beneath my feet and my...

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Teddy Bears in Space

Enlisted in the flying school
To join the Space Brigade
They’ve all been trying very hard
To try and make the grade.

Up an coming Space Cadets
The Teddy Bears are training
How to fly a Rocket Ship
The...

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You wanna know why I read?
I read because books are my escape.
I read because the friends I have in books are so much truer than the friends I have in real life.
I read because in...

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Dear Mom, we thought about giving you the traditional gifts of cards, flowers & chocolate on this mother's day. We then remembered Proverbs 18:4 which says "A person's words can be life-giving water" & we...

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Searching for mistakes in rich history, I came across the joy I used to feel and the looks that we both used to steal.
What the hell has happened to you anyway, where is the kindness...

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We celebrate Guy Fawkes although he did not quite make the grade

I know and understand rebellion threatens thus he met his fate

Could have been worse he could have blown of his incendiary hand

Less body parts...

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I sat down to watch the radio

There was nothing on TV

I have two hundred channels

But there was sweet F.A for me

I could have watched one channel

And learned to fricasse

A chicken raised on wild grains

By a...

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Nay, despite failing to make the grade,
     this bluesy well red, duff mute 
     average white band hit,
     hard knock school alumnus
jack of...

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I cannot forget Trayvon Martin - slain teen

no matter manifold more young people
unthinkingly killed, who spirits aspire
to ascend higher than a steeple.

revisited and slightly revised today
March 14th, 2021.

One deliberate shameful death,
whose demise linkedin
violent cessation of...

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Another holiday has come to pass and I am no prouder to be an American than when it started.

What are these holidays for I ask myself?

Are they designed for the little man to feel like...

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A judgement has been made, now the verdict is out.
From the beginning, my winning was beyond a shadow of doubt.
Do not waste your time shouting or pouting about my clout,
Just go ahead and get used...

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Villanelle : If you haven't had that, what have you had*

If you haven't had your life, what have you had
In fear of what lies beyond the locked safe-door
Live you now the moment, not for what's...

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Bloody knuckles
Are all that remain
Of what I use to be.
Torn skin,
Scars and scabs,
Memories and
Reminders.

Of a time when I was young
And without ambition
Or caution.
Running through green forests
With friends chasing behind.
A root,
I trip,
And my fingers collide with...

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New Cars and cameras 
New places to go
Another man to comfort you 
When you’re feeling low

Remember all the times we spent 
Sharing everything as one
Watching sunsets on the beach 
Kissing n the fading sun 

I...

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U  N~ BE L I(e)VE  


What if I told you to  u n b e l i e v e?
O p e n the doors and let all your t r u...

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I went to the dentist
It had been awhile
Yet after much drilling
Followed by filling
The bills heaped in a pile

He said come twice a year
Or try to make it three
Brush three times a day
And floss the right...

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Weekly appointments are being made 
Realizing luring bargaining chips after many trades 
Hoping they will make the grade 
When opposing home offices are expected to invade 
What will be discussed? 
Important issues a must 
Flagging...

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The core beginnings of a noble dream, of what would seem, foundations laid

With skills attained, such talent emerged, yet still submerged in discovery

Become what be, to demonstrate, independence taking shape

Cross-country weather, so partake and so...

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I'm told that I'm supposed to write a sonnet, 
It isn't something I could ever do; 
I know I'd rather shop to buy a bonnet; 
A size six foot won't fit a size five shoe....

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Thinking that the ease of walking around is all that is done,
With flirting, chatting, and looking important in their eye,
Ready to start they have ranging expectations in the mind.
Better pay and nothing to do, what...

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Walk through the halls of an unknown land
Trying to figure out how to fit in, 
May not be the same as everyone else,
But is that a reason to cut me down?  
Every day I...

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Wake Up Call

You wake up in the morning and you rise up in your bed.
The bell on your alarm clock is still ringing in your head.
Another day confronts you as you stand up to get...

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Just a regular curbside puddle,
It really wasn't that big.
But it had the look of an ocean,
To a sweet little puppy named 'Pig.'

"Your paws might touch the water,
No chances that you will drown."
Pig looked at his...

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Nobody knows,
 how many times I wanted to throw the towel in.
      I think maybe this time,
 I may have spread myself to thin.

     Nobody knows,
...

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