Long Sidestepped Poems

Prelude

After banishing my foe off to hell
The Lord took pity on my soul 
And returned it to my undead shell
Again, I was alive and whole

But the consequences of a second chance
Meant that I would have...

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I
The beggar outside the supermarket
You swore was picked up later
In a flashy car
Sat there in the sun for 8 hours
While you pissed & moaned
All the way home
To your bookless
Mausoleum 
With a chlorinated pool
Where one day...

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Here’s a penny for your thoughts… Dragon style!
One day Dragon wanted me to explain what Angels really are…. 
So, I told him Angels are God's special people who can fly… 
He got all excited... Cause...

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Passed down through generations of my family history
is the story of a man buried, and of an ensuing mystery.
It's an age old story that my ancestors have always told
about the presence of a rose appearing...

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He entered the dark house 
	through the unlocked kitchen door, 
	his house until the separation,
	found his way 
	down the dark hallway 
	to the bedroom,  
	hid in the closet, 
	the door slightly open to 
	a...

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You can if you Dare
Conditioned minds, controlled, domesticated
Governed by rules 
Mortal law books unique to individual fools
without questioning the content absolute or truth
Each generation bearing their own scared fruit 
Unwittingly victims controlled by degree
A creature...

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He walked in through the main door,
“Unbolted?” he wondered.
An ebbing shade of brown painted layer,
The polish on the door, dulled.

A poor man’s residence,
Deplumed sofa covers,
Sidestepped since the past three years.
The chewed up walls, unrepaired.

Jim heard...

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What to Submit?

1 original, poem on the theme of ...Give me your zaniest funniest Poem you can Muster up~~Be Silly 

Cyril Brown

Oh his name was Cyril Brown ,
An he weighed 300 pound,
An the Sand goannas...

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The mighty steed was black as night.. (Cobolt was his name)
His rider, Blade,  a Warrior Knight
Swiftly through the dark forest he rode
A realm he ruled with an iron code
He was in search of his...

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He stood upon the parapet
Tittering on the ledge
Giggling to himself 
And shuffling closer to the edge

For seven storeys down below
His wife and lover stood
He knew what they were up to
And it surely wasn’t good

Chuckling to...

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Dogpaddling the Styx

Dogpaddling cross the Styx
To be with old Tom Mix
But Charon was there 
Demanding he be paid
So an uppercut a bit
 sorta laid back the twit
the deal was made
We reached the foreign shore

Side stepping...

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Imagine the first tree on Mars
spindly and gnarly,
but its presence begs recognition.
The life force it took to plant that first tree
bears witness to the emotions
people bested, and the sacrifices suffered
for its growth and protection.
That first...

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Just like football I am waiting ,
on the side line,
To go up on the field,
Yes we are playing Goodooga,
Aboriginal big guys, tough as steel.

Here comes Albert racing faster,
Trotting down the bloody wing,
Gotta stop him, take...

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A private party I did throw for dignitary friends 
I served wieners in a can with little toothpick jabs     
It was Victor who did name me, inside his  little lab...

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I was driving to work on Monday morn
when behind me I heard a honking horn
A guy's middle finger taunted with scorn,
and that's the moment my road rage was born.

Normally, I'd smile and give him a...

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Lies have been sidestepped to satisfy hope,
a dolorous lesson of life.
When we allow our feelings free rein,
we open ourselves to all possibilities.
I hear my heart pounding,
struggling under the weight of my despair,
and I am moved...

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Byron McGovern (true story 1900)

At Denowan near Goodooga,
lived Mc Govern so they say,
At a Church of England mission,
Aubrey lived there anyway,

now Byron McGovern got arrested,
Black Trackers they said sure,
in jail he was invested,
his tracks came...

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Cassius Clay, in his day,
 was bloody hard to beat...
but smoking Joe stood toe to toe,
and no he wasn't weak, 
fought the rumble in the jungle, 
just the ladies made him weep:)

re :" Muhammed Ali"...

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Don Johnson Yuan-orang

We was in Coles a shopping center,
The wild man from Borneo appeared,
He reared up an started spraying 
Yuan Oranaga-Taunga was here

Followers in their blue-gum robes,
With bark a prickling round their ears,
With dollar coins...

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yes i set out to say one thing,
inadvertently say another,
and how they read between the lines,
disturbs me cousin, brother,
good ole wife stealing cousin Wayne,
sidestepped almost yet again,
but up an died,
suffered pain,
prostate specified...
bit lame.

nah johnson hasn't...

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Julie

By our PM Julie 
who is mesmerising truly
Kick starts Jumbo Jets untruly
Do I tug the old forelock

A boat person with agenda 
Tried to bend me old bombs fender
Nice as a dollar lender
Till payments due to...

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