Long Sounding board Poems

?Writing poetry, to me is like a form of catharsis. You are exposing all of your feelings and letting it all hang out. We often are exhibiting extrovert tendencies to cover up our introvert ones....

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My dreams became galling
To my fratricidal brothers
My father's favor appalling
Birthed from different mothers

"The master of dreams is coming."
Down the cistern they tossed me
Their plan to kill me numbing
My dreams engulfed in irony

Reuben discouraged their plan
They...

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Forge on ever foolish
Cucumbers in your relish
Black Smiths and Peasants 
get into the darkness, out of the Parish


The Red Horse gallops, polls, bearers, of holes
Get out of its way, as the
rumors gather Communist ships
 ...

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Sorry other poets. You just became my sounding board. There are many things that are becoming quite interesting. This subpoena thing is one of them. 
If Trump receives one from a Federal Court, he is...

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On a park bench one sunny afternoon, a teenager sat next to a stranger,                     ...

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(A Marriage of Poems)

A single glance is an expression enough 
with eyes dotted with its punctual punctuation.
A sigh deep enough in loves' trough
that a trance can turn it blue, 
if only a beloved statuesque- 
emotion...

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Just for the sake of saying "hello"

Courtesy garden variety/generic common Joe
who strives to achieve becoming 
(even posthumously) 
an esteemed writer likened to outstanding poe
whit – perhaps illusions 
of grandeur must be reined in 
courtesy horse...

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in a moment that gave her a semblance of clarity

my Mom expressed without a shadow of doubt

at long last I am allowed to do and say as I want
	
      ...

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What Will Happen Next

This is Day 5 of the 40
days of Lent.

was such a sad scene
have started our quarantine
now a health food fiend

When you went out to get coffee
you were escaping from things.
You needed a...

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With a middle name as "Flag this Scapegoat,"
I best not be surprised bullied from cutthroat
villains (supposedly kind hearted facilitators/
moderators, sans Facebook administrators, but
woe whiz me hyperbole 4 lite dramatic affect),

mine psyche stung, when months after...

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Once upon a time,
That seems so long a go now,
We were smarter and wiser,
For longer.

But we cannot take credit for that,
No, that is down to three diaries,
That once gave us daily reminders,
But always leaving the...

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I guess you know when you want to spend the rest of your life with someone then it must be
love
When you’re willing to take the bad with the good
When you know this person makes you...

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My Halloween Kitty (written 10/11/2020) free verse

I had a familiar named Callie
She was born on Halloween.

Feral siblings abandoned at my door.
I took the whole litter to the SPCA.
They neutered and spayed them all for me.
The...

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Something Seemingly Insignificant and Unexpected Changed My Life Poetry Contest

I was gratefully raised in a talented musical family,
Chords and B-sharps were heard many times,
Such beautiful memories full of sweet melodies,
While I sat in my room...

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Sins of a father

While younger we were running, to what we did not know.
Quick to love, fast at play, a canvas white as snow.
But as we grew in knowledge and taller by the day
cracks they...

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I need a friend right now
I need guidance
I need someone to show me how
How to just be.

I thought I was happy
I thought I liked me
I guess I am not the person
I thought I could be....

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There is an unseen magnet in the lure 
of solitude.  I seek it hungrily.
In it, I draw down silence as
a cover, insulating truth, but I
deny the need for joy.  For as a boy

I...

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Your going has left a hole in my heart that time,
The Great Healer, cannot repair.
Your going has left a hole in my existence
That forever and beyond will not heal,
A hole ever expanding from its own...

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the eyes of the Steiff Teddy hung from its threads 

loving can take its toll when small nimble hands

poke and explore in innocent fashion and passion

what lies underneath a warm glance into the truth


the button...

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Gb2 's a radio show, it airs in Sydney...But there's more to know.'
Ben Fordam has been speaking out,  on the covid dictates
Roundabout on where the science meets the facts
Whether it's all altruistic.? Or do...

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With a smile upon my face, the peaceful feeling in my heart
and my soul ever so complete, I say this to you
I LOVE YOU!
In case you didn't hear me. Let me say this again.
I LOVE...

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Your going has left a hole in my heart that
Time the great healer, cannot repair.
Your going has left a hole in my existence,
That forever and beyond will not heal,
Ever expanding from its own nothingness,
A hole...

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"My brain is only a receiver, in the universe
there is a core from which we obtain knowledge,
strength and inspiration."

The human brain as a mass of neuronal sensitivity,
has no power to enlarge its awareness by itself...

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chakra shot, aura ignored
inner peace left unexplored
feelings sans a sounding board
blest I’ve left the mindless horde

friends, none that lie to me
or neighbors that like to see
a banshee wailing jamboree 
self-reproach is absentee

no dogs, cats, or...

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i think i think too much and as of such i write
way to much and so no one can read it all
so so many i enjoyed writing hoping they
would be liked get shuffled in the...

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