Long Trick up Poems

“Please,” I said to God one day,
“I just need a friend.
One who’ll stay with me,
From beginning to end.”
I didn’t hear an answer,
I guess He was pretty busy,
I’ll try again later,
Maybe He’ll get back with me.
“I...

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Grandparents,
They love you no matter what
They listen to what you have to say
And give you advice you never want to let go of... even if you don't always take it... You will 
NEVER forget it
They...

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Many years ago I read a book entitled “Accidental Empires"
Of how a few men, from garden sheds, became multi billionaires
How could this be, what did they do, did they invent something new
Not really but if...

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both sides use conscience for a hook
it's a con artist's suitcase
fill your cup in the Ocean of Tears
there's enough of everything in there
toasters glowing blenders humming
dogs humping on lawns across the land
in a cloying oppressive...

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Quiet save for a morning glory’s cue 
Daylight decks the sky cerulean blue 
Sunday and like the hues of color wheels 
Old Man Dan hunts for all his fishing creels 

The rye grass cradles tiny...

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Something is amidst
There's foul play 
It doesn't add up
The numbers are way off.

Yet, here we are
Shaking in fear
Seeing a country
Stabbed in the chest
As crimson blood
0Stains the nation.

There's no way
That it was decided
From the get-go
Not all...

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'Why so serious?'
                          He would say as he started to...

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The King of Trumpland

From TV land and a brash hotel
Appeared a huckster who lived to sell
Dreams to those who longed to hear
A voice free of bull, pity and fear,
Selling the dream of a new frontier,
He...

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Neither fame, nor fortune sought,
sans this anonymous wordsmith,
whose quirky pastiche (no matter
evokes collywobbles, when risky
business undertaken to spill forth
most confidential personal woes),

broadcasting a heart of darkness,
Joseph Conrad might find quaint-
lee amusing, & considerably less
far reaching...

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He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease
A daring young man on the flying Trapeze
His movements were graceful, all girls he could please
And my love he purloined away

The Daring Young Man on the...

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Promising is empty
It’s hollow and dry
My heart is drowning
Because of a guy
My body is swollen
From being so strong
And my mind is ashamed
Just knowing he’s wrong.
My hands are tired
Of wiping my tears
My sanity is cracking
From all...

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THE MAGIC OF OUTDOORS

he moved slow, with a limp
his cane grinding
in the dirt, grating on the pavement

his hat always prompt on his head
as he headed into the cold dark wind

then it swirled
the magic
a trick up...

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Kinda lost right now. 
Do not know how
To point myself in the right way
Stuck in today
Did not think I would be alive 
All that jive.
Did not make any plans on what to do
True
They give me...

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Flirtation is a game many of us like to play
It’s a way of showing someone that I like you in the friendliest of ways 
But some play too rough and end up hurting those who...

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Even the holiest couldn't know Him but a glimpse was enough
Going through times so grim life wasn't about the worldly stuff
They shined through these moments giving God all the praise
They never sat on the fence...

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Sat by my desk day after day
Working here only for the monthly pay
Eight hours a day, five days per week
Every day I sit and shriek
At the constant barrage of abuse
With confusion leaving everything obtuse
	
People are...

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Before you know it’s already here
Fillin’ us with hope and cheer
You feel it in your fingers and toes
Strangers smiling and sayin’ hello
 
To many it’s a sweet surprise a crazy high it’s almost like
A long...

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Before you know it’s already here
Fillin’ us with hope and cheer
You feel it in your fingers and toes
Strangers smiling and sayin’ hello
 
To many it’s a sweet surprise a crazy high it’s almost like
A long...

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Garth was a cat with an attitude, and he was grayscale true.
He had a pet mouse. I did not  dare chase him. Did you?
Other cats had tried to entice Garth to loan out his...

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'Twas the night before Christmas...I was home all alone 
I had nothing to do...so I wrote down a poem
I just couldn't get it...my poem to look right 
Perhaps, it would look better...if I had turned...

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Would run you a hot bath
Bubbles up to your chin
Bottle of wine chilling

If you'd let me win

Would ask a sexy hunk
To sponge your back
Say sweet words in your ears
Bet you'd like that

Please can I win.

After...

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Forbidden fruit they had eaten
   At the bidding of the snake
New ashamed that they were naked
   They had to cover up, for Heaven's sake

"Adam, lets sew ourselves some fig-leaves."
  ...

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Booga Booga Boo
I will say to you
On a dark hallows eve night
With a trick up my sleeve
And a treat in my bag
A great night for teasing and fright
With a mask on my face
To the door...

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This is the kind of creature that goes out into the night to steal bricks to build its' niche.
It more than crosses a courtesy line. Happens more in  the winter;other seasons just fly by.
Swift...

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I use to think I had it all
  Now I hope you trip and fall

   All you do is put me down
 I walk around with a big frown

   ...

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