Short One That Got Away Poems

None the less a good one always gets away...

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One wake-up away
From the best day of your life.
Life’s just a crap shoot....

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My Candle Continues To Burn And Stay Lit Everyday,
In Honor Of Your Loved One, Now Passed Away....

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A Not So Original Monoku - unchallenged


Yeah!  But the one that got away was this big.


John G. Lawless
4/4/2016...

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One by one, i plucked away.
The peddles, so i could say.
You love me,
You love me not.
And just like, the peddles,
You faded away....

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One by one they drift away...
And now there`s nothing left to say...
Now they all go their seperate ways... 
Will they reunite one day...?...

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I enjoy this eloquent group
Everyone is welcomed here 
No one is turned away
Do us all a favor 
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~The One That Got Away~


Here I lay weeping

I sing a sad song to sleep 

Fire cracking bones

kicking, screaming, pulling hair

The moment, gone forever


~SKAT~...

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Passover’s only one short week away
Though we have yet to start cleaning, oy vey!
   Smiley faces wear no frowns  
   We’ll turn our house upside down
Shake and bake matzo in boxes ~ Ole!...

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Laughter echoed as 
they danced like no tomorrow
their eyes full of love.
It could have been me tonight
if I just said I loved him.




The One that got away 
Poem contest
7/4/2020
Sponsored by Silent One...

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Through my eyes shed rains;
My face tear-stained;
As I myself lament for the passing of this event;
Loved one has passed away,  from night into day;



9/3/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2021©...

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And the air cools and empties

The darkened beach,

Like Edward Storer, the poet,

One would toss away all one's poetry as failure,

As no rival for Her pale blue eyes,

There so infinitely deeper than the rushing, deep blue sea...

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Music inspires the joyful, love-able person to come out when were listening.
No one can get away from it, and no one wants to. Everyone has their own style, yet its all the same. It sends us messages, makes us happy, exited, and even cry. It unifies us all....

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It's happened all over again...
through time and wait
it has happened again...
SHIT!!!
Another woman coming my way
and I don't know what to say,
I don't know what to do...
Just sit and wonder if this will be true,
or just another one that got away......

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Lets ride, somewhere far away
Be mine, and tell me your going to stay
I don't want you to make my heart break 
when your the one who took away my heart ache
I know I didnt make a mistake, to choose you, to take this hand, and take me to 
be forever yours....

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"Who's your 'the one that got away'?", Katy asked.
"I don't know," he shrugged.
"No one has ever really come to ever go away."
"Maybe it's because you're too scared to open the door," you said with a glare.
"Perhaps there's no door or window at all. Just walls."...

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How is it one can turn away
From the blossoming of the day
Saying the darkness and depravity
Of night is more pleasant to see?

True it is I enjoy the touch
Of the night far too much
But when one is awake for break of day
The beauty is more than words can say....

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How nobility weighs you down
When you wish to run 
Away
But you can't abandon duty
No matter what
You feel
The one who runs away
Lives a life of utmost
Shame
Never thinking for one
One other than them
Self
Nobility
Chivalry
Love
Loyalty
Why you don't run away...

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Some of the sunshine disappears 
When a loved one sadly passes away 
You think of all the good times you had 
Each and every day
Those precious memories are still there 
Even though that your mom is gone 
Now you have to live your life 
And have the strength to carry on...

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I don’t want to be the one who shies away
and loves you less

I don’t want to be the one asleep
while you’re awake

I don’t want to be the keeper of secrets
you cannot share

I don’t want to be the one you miss
—until I’m gone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)...

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The One That Got Away


I remember back when, thinking of our future then
Neither knowing what forever was
Now that then has past, I know now, at last
It’s being young and in love
It hurts so much that sometimes we forgot
That love is forever, it is we who are not
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That one who got away
That one who slipped away
Don't get hung up over..
Heed the one who stayed
The one who stays put..
Let the lost ones wander
But keep the door open
And the torch always lit
That one may yet again
Find their own way back 
Back to the blessed fold

#iLeki...

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By serving God I serve man,
  but I cannot serve God by serving man;
  the horse is put before the cart;
  the sheep shall scatter to the wind....
  for I shall see sheep, yet not the herd ----
  one will fall away,
  the rest will follow,
  and the wolf shall rend them piecemeal...

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The one in my daydreams
The one I compare all others to
None of which can come close to u
U will always be the one that got away
If I could go back and change my decision
I would leave with u
U r the peace I am seeking
U r the life I want to live
The next day dream coming soon......

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The one who wanted to stay
is now chided by Brother
as the one who got away
followed his Wife to England in 60
and revisited in 79
absence so dearly noted
replete the years
saint not sinner
who rode the years
not persecuting by choice
because missing South Africa is inconsolable...

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