Mystery Missing You Poems

Dear Curious Youth

And inquisitive Sleuth

I present to you a quandary


A baffling report    

An enigma of sort

Whenever I do my laundry


It’s quite odd...

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        Whether regular or occasional,
    ...

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Something is missing…
Looks about
Wonders and thinks
Doesn’t think out loud

Start from the beginning 
Back it up, slow it down 
Think for a minute 
What is wrong...

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Grief tears down the walls,
Built by scarred hearts,
Convincing walls, sturdy like the oak –
But not nearly as resilient when anguish trembles
In hearts who have never...

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Snow's mysteries withheld in a caress cloud sky— 
For only she knows her swirling mimes fear melt;
Mercury rigid, cold— night child feels no breath;
Surely there's...

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“F”, we’ll call him Felipe
Felipe found a doorway
he didn’t mean to
he wasn’t looking for it
and at first he wasn’t aware 
he’d gone through it
but something...

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I was an unfathomable mystery writer, producing novels for ardent readers,
Much like a mystery of vanishing pearly moon, as sun comes up to greet her.

My...

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As he was walking down the street 
One foot fell off,
An embarrassing incident 
He manage to cover with a cough.
Just twenty yards further on
To his...

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This subject is too fraught for eloquent poetry
  So please indulge me in a straightforward thought or three

  For the first time in...

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THE CARE OF A ROSE
(A Crash Course)

Lesson One
(Undone)

Today we begin
Not a sin
Not to know
Roses grow
(Who will sow?)
*
A knot
A vine
A pass
In time
(Who will go?)

It starts with...

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“Turtles” 

The stolen child
woke up one day

before a mirror
the window 
reflecting
another world,
a faded memory

turtles -

on the beach that day
a game they played

questions, 
answers,
slow and steady...

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What name can I give 
To a dream that is uncertain
To people who are unclear
To a feeling I am unsure of
To a message that is...

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A chilled-to-the-bone night in October
During a fog hovering over the hills,
A West Virginia family came up missing
The story still gives neighbors the chills,
Seems their clapboard...

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At the time of the incident, I lived in an old mansion,
that was undergoing renovations and expansion.
Outside the night was dark and a storm...

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Where, oh where is Virginia Dare*,
No one can find her anywhere.
Her disappearance is the very worst,
I guess that's what comes from being the first.

*Virginia Dare...

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