Sorry Mirror Poems

"The Value of Reading"

messages impressed
upon the secret keepers.
when is late too late?
to divulge the truth?

"I know this is a shock"
arrives far too late 
when it...

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I am short and sweet
Read quickly before I leave
Haiku is my name...

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She dances she glances,                     ...

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I had a love, I swear I did;
I know it must be true,
Because my soul still bears the mark,
The imprint of her hand.
In desperation, before...

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     She sat on a chaise longue waiting for the big revelation 
after years of therapy she still hadn't healed that...

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Do we break the mirror of life,                  ...

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GIBBERISH

Here I go again, laying my head on the line, how drowl
As I rummage around for any last bits of my sorry soul

With the now...

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Missed 

The distance from here to there 
is longer than I dreamed it would be. 
I thought I could visit often, 
with you, and with...

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When she was young,                                          ...

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"Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch"



She takes the cake 
they offer, chewing too rapidly, 
she Shrews when she speaks 
I’ll beat warpath...

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Dear God,
I come to you today because I need to know ... Why don't I have a reflection in the mirror every time I look...

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It's funny, because I've vacuumed under your bed 
a hundred times in the past two years
I've dusted the black bedside table
picked up your Scotch and...

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I need my childhood
Where life was good
Small but huge heart
Running to Sunday school
To be filled with gospel
And memorize verses
I love my past

Unfortunately it is my...

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Aging baby boomer
no longer fit as a fiddle
accumulating extra adipose tissue
around the middle
ain't no impossible mission
whence thumbs I twiddle
to shed unwanted 
weight methinks exorcise to...

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I'm like what's next?

I'm in the P.D.X,
so flexed-
come rain or come next,

if the weather has test,
"I say" take the heather to caress the pests-

rush in...

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