Long Self help Poems

Self help addict needles unsuspecting reader 

Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow 
scouting about for carrion 
scavenging for dead animals 
and rooting about...

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Hi everybody, my name is Vera as some of you already know, and I am the wife of Peter Duggan. I came on this site to cheer Peter on, and also to read some poetry...

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Letter to a novice poet:

(What modern poetry is for me)

Welcome to the family of budding poets, who pen passion and
meaning or anything life holds for them. Enjoy. Buds will sprout
and blossom over time. No buts...

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dust had gathered on her many memories in outlines and heaps

had sheltered her from full on attacks of pain and self lacerations

the broom with razors attached right next to the end of the stick


inside lay...

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       Ducks and Ducklings


        My daughter's residence favoured my luck !
           ...

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she is everything you have seen in the movies
crayola hair
velvet dress
sugar in her veins
tears glued to her face
she fingerpaints the kitchen walls like a little girl and tapes their polaroids to every surface

he is every...

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I was listening to our Commissioner
of Economic and Community Development
speak of how happy she is
our State and Federal tax revenues
now subsidize two,
possibly even three, submarines
per year
rather than the mere one per year
of the bad old...

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"Some Grave Humor for Monday Mourning"   Posted 5 Apr 2021
take note: if you don't go to your friend's funerals      they won't go to yours

some think our cemetery is...

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as a cild it hat often been the box that mattered
          
          it gave shelter and comfort...

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Ask my parents. They’ll tell you, my favorite phrase, growing up was, “I can do it all by myself.” One day, I sat, spinning the top of my Flintstones vitamin bottle, wondering, how many spins...

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Heart Attack Self Help

A viral message of self help  is making its round through whatsapp..
Reportedly written by a cardiologist Dr Siva, a senior doctor of the heart…
It implores each reader to spare a mere...

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Writings moving through me with the Holy Spirit,
Inviting exquisite artistry like Hebrew so I write it automatically,
Transmitted and sent with rugged style of construed truth, 
To induce questions within the golden age of the awakening...

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I will never forget my ex wife telling me that

... everything was wrong and everything was my fault ...


‘I won’t tell you what because you must find out yourself’


My world broke into two pieces or...

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THE MATRIARCH 
(In Memory of Eva Vescovi Dixon 1910-2010) 
by Tina (Vescovi) Lasley 

She was a Sister, Mother, Aunt and Friend 
Someone on whom you could always depend 
She was Counselor, Advisor, and Mentor to...

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I am going to see the lights.
The glow of the city will make a perfect backdrop to the painting I am envisioning.
Far enough away to see the twinkle of headlights and the shine of skyscrapers,...

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ELOQUENT GEMS

Part 1

Been told I wrote an eloquent gem,
So here we go again, in this game that's needs to be renamed,
Intervened by dreams and quoted, far fetched but relevant preached quotes,
Ya read them and hopefully...

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DIVORCE POEM: ALL DONE NO MORE FUN SON 
So now is crunch time,  
There is no more entertaining any-more Sunday brunch times! 
There’s no more listening,...  
To your not so funny, so called...

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Sisyphus had Syphilis which had traveled  to his brain

                    a man of pleasure once but...

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October 23 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Acts 20-21

Key Verse – Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish...

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Think of the hands that lovingly fed you,
Think of the hands that lovingly held you,
Think of the hands that held yours and taught you to write,
Think of the hands that held yours and taught you...

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It was raining when I woke up early this morning and it’s expected to rain all day.  The temperature outside is in the low fifties; cold and gloomy and perfectly in line with how...

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... stalactites hung like dystopian snot from a statue 

her brain was frozen and formed ice in her mind

a lacuna without inlet or outlet arrested in time

mind’s skates tied up in bundles of snowflakes

gloves off...

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“a little time to give... a little time to live, time always means so much”

Before I knew it, I could retire, everyone said it would be so great,
Having nursed for 37 years I got full...

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There was once a man.
He’d always wanted to write,
But his biggest failing was
That he wasn’t very bright.

Whenever he started 
On a story or a plot,
Before he could pen it
He simply forgot

What he had thought earlier
And...

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First let me start by saying “I AM A CLUTTER JUNKIE”
A clutter junkie collects things any and all things, things that are unimportant and often cheap
Things that have no purpose or meaning.
Things that usually just...

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