Devotion Moving On Poems

When the enterprise gets exposed
A brothel finds out it's opposed
The sign in the front
Men meet with a grunt
Says beat it we recently closed...

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Retirement
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Stop working now
The hopeless boss
Who gives you no hope
The nine-to-five grind
Is over now
Retirement
Exit, exit excite
Up, up away
Banjo your mango
Man goes
Peddle your medal
On your salad...

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Does my head in the guillotine promptly paint me guilty?
My last meal, a full plate of your golden excuses 
But any attention means so much...

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“I am somebody’s child, and I need attention, I am somebody’s child and I need affection, I am somebody’s child and I need love and...

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Goals to set
    Plans to make
  Awards to win
    Get fit, get thin

  Time's a wastin'
 ...

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Entering the door 
Mind like a child
Trusting and believing
Imagination wild

Blinded by seduction
Excitement takes hold
Willing to chance
On stories untold

Mornings became bright 
Happy days and nights
Just knowing...

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Twenty-four hours
goes by very quickly.
A lot to be done,a lot to be said.

We're all moving,
unearthing the world's treasures.
Everyone has a goal and a train to...

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The nymph shudders at the sweet earth.
I want to leave, but she wants all its worth.

She is but a beautiful death,
as she admires a last...

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Moving steadfastly to my north node
My place of glory, my splendiferous abode

Yes!  My true 'NORTH' I'm traveling 
Precious jewels I'm unraveling 

Distractors I'm ignoring
Life's...

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Seems like the older I get
The younger I grow
Finding it hard to keep
My ducks in a row
Yes i see the fork in the road
Don't ask...

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Upon the transition into a wistful soul
A past seeking self forfeits a requisite toll
Feelings are born from moments of pleasure 
Memories are lost to space...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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airborne pathogens
fenced world out of kilter
impulse to Mars brews

















Haiku composed: August 21, 2020...

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Oh, happiness and peace, do fill my being!

Blind me to anything negative, seeing.

Keep me most humble in my strength.

Allow me to fully live housed in...

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You are the first thing 
I think of when I wake. 

The sky outside is blue, 
But I pray it is bluer for you. 

If...

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