Short Outsiders Poems

To all the outsiders out there, thank you....

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stop interlopers
cling to love's first memory
avoid nay sayers...

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Smiling slightly sad Colibri said:
'Are you happy today, my dear?
......

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Cover,
sometimes dreadful,
keeping from outsiders 
the beautiful, loving contents
unseen....

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Whimsically
Obedient
Motherly
Elegant
Nuisances

Silently
Hungry
Outsiders
Lusciously
Deprived

Belittled
Entities...

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Poetry soupmates
We're all together
Even when we disagree
We'll defend each other
against outsiders
Such a marvel, believe you me...

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Who wants to live long life
       always run from the danger
    aside from stray outsiders bullets
   away  from friendship of strangers...

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inner struggles
from traumatic times
in small old towns
outsiders wonder
why she holds onto it
meanwhile she's been searching 
for a place to put it down...

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II
Ukraine belonged to Russia
So they acted doing their job
To make things easier 
Ukraine was Russia
Russia was Ukraine
Outsiders don't get it
One Mother Russia
Always forever...

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Nothing more defended
than the status quo

To protect and covet,
never let go

Attacked by outsiders,
heels to dig in

Rocking the boat
—water within 

(Ashbridge Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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In the evening light
The Moon stands on its podium
The mother ship looms
A foretold invasion
Triggered by superfluous AI

wormhole in the sky
strangers in the evening light
outsiders with us  


April 9, 2024....

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Indescribable thoughts expressed
Colour and detail unmissed
Subconscious voices absorb on paper
Stories of emotion so personal
Experiences shared for armour
Laughed at by the outsiders
Understood by the intelligent minds...

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I stay awake to see the nights ways. 
Witness where the freaks tweaks and youth meet.
Words from the reckless 
Actions from the restless.
Sleep where the demons and angels meet. 
Witness our war.
May all shining souls prevail...

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Blissfully on cloud nine or
Irritable beyond all recognition
Policing yourself to not hurt yourself
Only to hope its not to completion
Longing to be healthy and stable
Aggressive to the outsiders who 
Recommend Lithium for you...

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Alphabet Soup

Everywhere I look, I see acronyms…

A language all of its own for each category.

A shorthand of sorts.

Outsiders confused and aggravated. 

They requested clarification. 

Only to be answered with jargon shorthand. 


Sherry Emma-Pederson Barton 
April 13, 2024
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I wear a sweatshirt because I feel hidden. Behind this sweatshirt that I wear is a symbol of me. I’m like a tree. I'm quiet I stand tall and proud. These pretty leave that I carry surround me in a leafy blanket. When my hood is up I feel safe from the outsiders. That’s why I live behind my hoodie....

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Open 
Close
1,2,3
High School Musical 2 Soundtrack
Hannah Montana Forever 
Shake it up: Live 2 dance
Disc Ex-Change 

Crash my Party 
The Incredible Machine
The Outsiders
Open 
Close

The many faces of ACDC
Theory of a Deadman
Shinedown
Open
Close

Display
Unable to play disc


24 October 2019...

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We leave our
jackets around the chairs
in spite of the 
formalility of the setting.
Well, the outsiders are,
as usual, absent.
There are no guests to
make the rooms into a
tasteful memory.
I know her jacket
and she knows mine. She
sometimes scolds me
but I take it with good grace.
I know she is not
mother....

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Deadbeat lost soul, no hope.
Nice guy, loyalty, good bloke.
Love found is no joke.
Ends meet but always broke.
Chance given, can he cope?

Outsiders chance of glory.
Just go the distance
That's the best story.
Fight with the champ.

Toe to toe
Blow to blow
Live the dream

Italian Stallion
Break odds…

Rocky....

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I'm tired of fishing for truth, 
and catching only, 
Worm eaten boots 
And plastic flim-flam,
of egotistical minds, 
This river is polluted! 
With a million fallen dreams,
 And spineless fish, 
That cannot see, 
So I raise a glass 
To the strangers. 
To the outsiders. 
Who swim in isolation. 
In deeper darker waters....

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The Woman Who Could Eat Wood & Other Stories is a gathering of dark-serious, funny, and emotional poems/stories showing people, hybrids, and objects born different. In their eyes, and to the normal, they’re born useless to the world – weird outsiders who try to make use of themselves with various degrees of success and failure (some die).  

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Family is defined by feelings
not just those of love.
A need stirs up inside
sent down from above.
The yearning to help, to comfort
to care for those in your family.
To be sure they will survive
And receive whatever they need.
Definitions, outsiders, nay-sayers,
whomever they may be
so not let them crush
your dreams of what you believe....

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strangers in a foreign land
two outsiders free floating 
adrift without connection

in a bubble outside their world
swept by the currents and the tides
they manage to find each other

all remains pure and lacks complication
where lines are clearly drawn
for depth of friendship to never sour


Inspired by movie “Lost in Translation”...

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Season To Taste


S oup – pure broth
E ndeavouring to stay “pure”
A mid the “cook’s in the kitchen”.
S easoning to taste the
O fferings of distant “chefs” -
N ot/accepted -

T ables set for too many.
O outsiders – 

T heir noses pressed
A gainst the glass -
S niffing the soup
T asting, its
E fficacy.



John G. Lawless
12/27/2015...

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Looking out into the bay,
All my friends,
Even my furry friends.
No one understands,
But they know me,
I am their protector.
I feel their heart.
I see the Ocean.
The different families.
Some good others dangerous.
I'm here for them,
To protect to save from outsiders,
Who take them from their home.
Catch them, kill them,
Even eat them,
Taking their Soul....

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