Short Around The Back Poems

Why do puppies like to chew up paper
To ingest the news I'm thinking, this caper
Smart ass puppies
Smarter than guppies
They just swim around smiling back at us gapers...

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Why do puppies like to chew up paper
To ingest the news I'm thinking, this caper
Smart ass puppies
Smarter than guppies
They just swim around smiling back at us gapers...

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Rednecks and roundabouts, they don't mix.
Don't try and fool us with your media tricks.
We drive around the back roads throwing bottles at signs.
Your roundabouts make us slow down or the ladies spill their wine...

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I'm thrown around and back up again
One minute I'm your friend
Another I'm not
I just don't understand
It's perfect when we're together
but apart it's not
Am I just a toy?
I feel like I'm wound in tight and then just thrown back out agian
I can't continue this game
Will you just let me loose?...

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The butterfly, a symbol of rebirth.
The butterfly that I noticed fluttering around my back porch,
golden brown with black veins running through it, white dots along the edges of its wings.
The butterfly that couldn't find its way out,
The butterfly that I found two days later on the floor, lifeless.
The butterfly lays on my kitchen counter, still dead....

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 I have been feeling lately,
What it's like to be,
Void in me, which upsets the rend.
The empty space around me,
The gentle breath you take,
The warm pat around my back,
The heartbeat that I feel,
The calmness and comfort that I seek;
For that slow evanescent worry;
The feeling that never felt as such
Ohhh dear hug,
Why do I miss you so much ...

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holding what the twilight brings
sleepless nights, empty dreams
close my eyes, visions creep
passion ebbed on moonless beach

wander, footsteps in smooth sand
head down on deserted strand
listen to the ocean speak
what I hear that leaves me weak

turn around go back to start
left alone with this full heart
no one feels this love I seek
wandering on a moonless beach...

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When my well-fed cat dies will he go to heaven?
Will he make it in cat years to fifty-seven?
Or eighty-six or one hundred and five? 
Just what is keeping this fat sassy tom alive?
Shark has a kill room around the back.
Has killed varmints from here to Hackensack.
Will he ever reach the Rainbow Bridge?
He annihilated my mean Aunt Midge.
Sure some do not think it was Shark my cat.
But he’s wearing her rings, so what about that?...

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So you can avoid all the suspense
Could it actually be a coincidence
Or by God was it really intended
Like a star in the sky suspended.

Wait for a while and I will think
Maybe for moment into slumber sink
As eyes roll around in back of head
From what I had heard that someone said.

Center of poem is none other than I
And while you happened to pass by
Another idea for a poem just came
It was you my friend who I should blame....

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Mockingbird comes from his nest deep within running rose
Where it rest upon the trellis
Out into the down pour of rain stands shakes his wings over and over again
Turns around goes back in through the thorns hungry but where it is dry and warm
So like the Mockingbird am I 
I don't like facing a rainy day
Just want to stay beside a roaring fire snug and warm....  

I have no way of knowing what it is
It just needed to be said...
Click on "About This Poem"...

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To the end and back again. Around and back to the places I've been. Like a carousel that's never sleeping. My thoughts melt away, but my body keeps leaping. This never ending ride spinning out of control. You're waiting until it takes its toll. Your life is lost, nothing more then the dust of the memories as the ride slowly starts to rust. Buried lies starting to reveal, accompanied by their forgotten appeal. Decaying reminders of a long ago love, follow you under with no light from above....

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You guys bullied a girl so much that she committed suicide.
Then you went to her funeral and laughed because she died.
You guys are evil and you should be sent to jail.
If I was God, I would send you straight to Hell.
That poor girl killed herself because of your attacks.
I thank the Lord that her family is fighting back.
What goes around comes back around, that's what I believe.
When her family is done, I hope a harsh punishment is what you guys receive.

(SADLY THIS IS A TRUE STORY.)...

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