Uplifting Missing Poems

I am now "away from the noise,"  
my fruit gum I am chewing.  
Sitting here wondering what the boys,  
could be doing.  

 
 
Now all unpacked,  
a book I...

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Even though you're not here, 
I miss your morning meows
I've ignored you parting from me
But, you haven't gone anyhow. 

I remember six years ago, ...

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Foggy
Drizzling rain
Droplets begin collecting
Marring the polished wood
Where the little sparrow stood

Windy
Trees swaying
Tears and mourners
Uplifting scripture is spoken
The sparrows soft cries awoken

Flowers
Sickingly sweet
Meals are delivered
Grieving friends...

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I went away for just three days
Though three days were too many
It feels like something missing
From my heart
and
From my soul
My spirit oh so...

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tell me something anything that feels like a hug ~



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on July 29, 2021...

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Friends..
Take us just as we are;
The rough and the smooth.
Accepted and loved.
With nothing to prove.

Friends..
Need us too;
Or that's what we hope.
Ask yourself this:
Are you sick,...

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tomorrow stopped by 
looking fresh as always
as yesterday was getting ready to leave
had errands to take care of before midnight 

that’s what she told us...

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Knock, knock….

Who’s there?

Nothing

Nothing who?

Nothing, nothing!

You mean n-o-t-h-i-n-g , nothing?

Precisely.

Does anyone know you’re here?

No 

And if they ask me?

Say nothing...

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Not the conventional topic for a poem
I mean, it’s difficult to engage socks
Emotionally; they provide no loam
In which to seed a rhyming song that shocks

Or...

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my days are filled
with thoughts of you
reminders
of your smile

remembrances
of your voice
they echo in my head

and in my heart
the memories
of your laughter



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on...

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Where have all our beautiful flowers gone
Each so very special in their own way
Where have all our young flowers gone
Why has this world’s evil taken...

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in the dream I had 
many appeared
extras plenty
but loved ones too

all had seen
that same dream
but only one got it
others had no clue...

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Good morning
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Good morning 
Sweet daughter 
In my morning tea
I see you
I am thinking ..
Where ever you are ..
What ever are 
You doing now ..
Our...

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Read the poem, and the poet
Paint the roses, and the vase
Envy the role, and the actress
Enjoy the soup, and the dish.

Love the person, not the...

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the salty wind blowing from far, far away
read me a poem today
whose lines I've heard before,
bur where and when,
I couldn't tell:

"the shortest road is the...

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