Short Goode Poems

if a poet speaks 
in a forest of people
does anyone hear

© Goode Guy 2013-03-13...

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happy forever
sounds a worthy endeavor
but mostly ain't so

© Goode Guy 2013-02-02...

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bioluminescence
one syllable too many
to light up this thought

© Goode Guy 2013-03-02...

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Woke up this morning
I had to think to myself
Pretty good so far

© Goode Guy 2013-03-02...

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had my heart broken
way back when i was too young
happens any time

© Goode Guy 2013-03-02...

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the Rue de Ruin
takes a life to reach the end
traversed much too soon

© Goode Guy 2012-12-25...

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roll upon the grass
with sheer joy of elation
just like the blown winds

© Goode Guy 2012-12-09...

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people will lie to 
themselves to protect themselves 
from themselves, mostly

© Goode Guy 2013-02-03...

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there just ain't no cure 
there is only punnish meant
deadpan - grave - humor

© Nhan Goode Guy 2014-03-04 ;-)...

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she's a painter
he's a poet
the potter takes his
clay and throws it
turning mere dirt
to a thing of desire

© Goode Guy 2011-12-29...

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humans share twenty-five percent 
of our genes with rice. 
does that make us cannibals
when we call-in take-out Chinese?

© Goode Guy 2013-09-10...

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chemical weapons
completely unjustified
we're droning on to
punish perpetrators
and war goes on
so even more can die
what more is there?

© Goode Guy 2013-09-01...

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left in peace or
right in war or
left in peace or
right in war or
left in peace or
right in war or
left in peace or
right in war

© Goode Guy 2011-07-04...

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I be frum brooklin
And I bee edumacatid reel goode
En iff uz wanna bee sefistikated lic mee
end Gawd weil bee wit uz
en ween u finde Hiem
asc Him 2 drope buy me's....

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hourglass,
our glass,
one time
one night
love to pass
our glass
are surpassed
past sublime
past en masse
our brass
hour passed
union asked
loves a pass

© Goode Guy 2012-11-21...

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Jeweled lights are blinking
Jaunty tunes fill the room
Johnny B. Goode with Chuck
Jumpin' Jack Flash with Mick
Jerry Lee Lewis wails
John Lennon twists and shouts
Jitterbug all night long...

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cat layin' in the sunbeam
catching the ease -
that falls through the stream 
jus' warmin' up to the notion
of fillin' in for the leisure docent
- life, now this is what it means

© Goode Guy 2012-10-28...

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we tabled it
we sat it down, 
laughter and love
expressed gratitude,
passed it around,
around the table

let us now
as we are able
take this time
its taste sublime
at the table
...mmmm...

© Goode Guy 2012-11-22...

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there once was...

there once was a rooster from Nantucket
with vocal stylin's, it only could cluck it
it cocked and it crowed
strutin' loud 'round abode
'til the farmer's wife's axe did awestruck it

© Goode Guy 2013-01-28...

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desires tend toward Violet
the facts are blue
theorems are green
axioms are the in between

lies are just plain yellow
but for a few white lines
change tends toward orange
and that said in anger, is red

© Goode Guy 2013-01-04...

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Buddhist: self-immolation

Muslim: blow everyone up

Christian: just shoot you

Hindu: Sikh revenge

zeal: (noun) a feeling of strong eagerness, 
	excessive fervor to do something or 
	accomplish some end
	
© Goode Guy 2012-11-27...

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coccoid möbius

i wish i didn't want - i want to no longer need - i need to feel alive - i live to find my creed - my creed guides my life - my life meets my needs - my need to free of want - my want to fulfill my wish -

© Goode Guy 2013-12-05...

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tilted up toward sky
the trio fills its space
with well-rounded lips in
resonant, chorded, choral grace

aaaaahhhhhhhhhh! {loudly with song}

© Goode Guy 2013-08-05

for Elizabeth Krome's pottery
for the Charles Taylor Arts Center 
ekphrastic poetry event 2013-08-11...

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under the Sal tree
lies a meditation unambitious
a certain implausibility
of death and life and all auspicious

am i disciple - or more - or less
the mind thirsts a life to slake
proceeding forward - or to regress
then sleep and mindfully be awake

© Goode Guy 2013-07-24...

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It may seem an odd time of year
to be throwing flowers before the fire
What ire possessed! Is this some jest?
or colorful reminder of springs bequest 

© Goode Guy 2014-01-04

ekphrastic for 2014-01-12 at 
the Charles Taylor Art Museum of 
"Tulip Screen" by Daniel Smith...

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