Long Take a back seat Poems

My view on seduction,
 is that what you're asking me? 

Specifically love, 
my thoughts on loving a woman,
that's what you want to know?

Have you ever seen the image of a woman
in the ocean while walking...

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Worth More Than My Weight In Gold
Wondering around this space in time looking for that someone special just to call mine.  Opening up my heart at every turn, giving freely instead of allowing the...

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Dreams of entertainment
Full of amazement and surprises
Take a back seat Beauty and the Beast
We are a standalone being our feast
The music being for us both
Together we took an oath
A Teapot and cup and saucers are...

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When I was a child,
summer at my Aunt Joanne’s
meant staying out as late as it took the sun to set!
And mostly with my cousin Chris,
I threw a baseball back and forth
with exhilaration each time I...

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A couple of Sundays ago, my daughter called me stating that she wanted to go to church with us. She realized that it was getting late and apologized for calling at the last minute. ...

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Sister Aimee

An angel in white floated down from the heavens
Onto a small farm in the northern land of Salford
Illumination and imagination combined
She was divine and with inspiration, sublime

Inquisitive eyes shone out from this beautiful creature
Her...

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Had I given vent to my emotions and what I was really feeling inside, the results would have been rather predictable. So predictable in fact that I purposely chose to create a different outcome. ...

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A garden sun chases our ginger cat.
Dad watches World War Two
up close on the TV
he grinds his teeth,
a general forced to take a back seat.
Mother in the kitchen,
not her natural territory.
She opens cupboards exploring contents.
It...

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things die down for a bit
i put on an old 45 and become hooked
if i do not slow it down i know i will have a fit
i put on a second 45 and i am...

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~ can you tell I'm ready for SPRING???! hehe ~



Jealous Winter
     by Amy Swanson



Winter...
   
       you come and go

    ...

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The garden sunlight plays tag
with our fat ginger cat.
Dad watches World War Two
he grinds his teeth
a general forced to take a back seat.
Mother is in the kitchen
not her natural territory.
She opens cupboards exploring contents.
It is...

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THEY WERE AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL THEY WERE MIGHTY AND THEY WERE STRONG.

THEY FOUGHT FOR EQUALITY AND FOR JUSTICE THEY PUT GOD FIRST IN EVERYTHING.
THEY DO.

THEY STOOD UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVED IN THEY...

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(8/18/12)

We were soldiers young and brave
Now we lay here in our grave
Does anyone remember me when I lived
And that I had so much to give.

I wanted all the things that everyone else did
But my thoughts...

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You think it's going to be your way or the highway but that's not how it's going to be.
You'd better change your way of thinking if you want to continue to be married to me.
You...

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some people love being " in love"
are perpetually in love
their cars and houses sing of it

their pets and children
take a back seat as
they are all about this new
fresh never-had-before feeling

They exist and survive solely
on the...

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Engraved like stone upon the writer's sense 
a waft of inspiration flows from here to there 
like fragrant spice of myrrh and frankincense 
inside a writer's skill the savoir faire 

a waft of inspiration flows...

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Hot chocolate hot chocolate I like it sweet, at Yule time I'll drink it then take a back seat 
beside the old tree where Santa I'll meet they'll be cookies galore for St Nick to...

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Damned like a Dain
Memories of your melodies,
Struck my heart like lullabies.
Still feels like yesterday,
When you left me damned.
Damned like a Dain!

When the lips that showers me praises,
Begins to curse me ferociously.
I would close my eyes...

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some people love being " in love"
are perpetually in love
their cars and houses sing of it

their pets and children
take a back seat as
they are all about this new
fresh never-had-before feeling

They exist and survive solely
on the...

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Schizophrenic 

Darkness floods a broken mind 
Screaming out for calmness to find 
Sanity drowns in torrential tears 
Crowded in loneliness that no one hears 

With open mouth words haunt the air 
Medication needed ,but to...

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They laugh, they giggle, they titter and they toss.
They jump, they dive, they swing and they sing.
Their exuberance runs around the room, chasing whatever.
Energy boings out of them in all directions.
They are the children of...

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We are heading to New Orleans she says
The Parade is exactly what we need for Dez.
Dez is a cousin who has style and flair
His enthusiastic exuberance hangs in the air

No one can control him our...

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I sing this song of Pride

For those who have no voice.

I march this street in honor

Of those who had no choice


The Stonewall Riots, where it all began

Our fathers took to the streets.

To demand equal rights...

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divine soma nectar dripping
through hidden nadis within
each pulse explosive ignition
bliss throb within enlivening

crown assumes pole position
one thousand petals blooming
elixirous magnetism vivifying 
as bliss renews in continuation 

mind concepts take a back seat
inner reality dawns beauteously...

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We count on certain people
To do what they’re known to do
And then are disappointed if
They somehow don’t come through.

The organizers, shoppers, cooks,
The ones who plan things out – 
We take a back seat, figuring
It’s done,...

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