Short Side(A) Poems

A shaky old man
Selling ice drops side a road
Amidst noonday sun....

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People have two sides
Like The Roman God Janus' coin
A good side, a bad side
A past, a future
One must embrace both in
Someone we love...

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Unbearable sun
Ant granaries set hoarding 
Beach-side, a haven

Scorching July heat
Camel's skin and fat melted 
Yet your love intact...

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Side A
Time’s Effect On Us 
(Noway & Back)
Produced by I M Sorry

Side B
But You’re Still In My Dreams
(Night & Tears)
Produced by R U Leaving

Recorded by Ann Other
at Her Apartment 







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I sauce a capon
but chine a salmon
I spoil the hen
but truss the chicken
I lift the swan
but disember the heron
I side a haddock
yet disfigure a peacock
A mallard I unbrace
but a coney I unlace
Olde English terms
Now lost without trace...

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your secrets billow like smoke
then dissipate slowly in my ears

if I want to make love
I look at you
if I want to write a poem 
I look through you

the other side a place
where our hearts bathe 
in cold glib pools 
that bare such a fiery true
inspiration...

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Friends are givers not takers.
They are menders not heartbreakers.
Lending a hand in times of need,
 helping do a timeless deed.

Standing by with arms wide open,
  by your side wishing and hoping.
Never once will they turn you away,
 but by your side a friend will stay....

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Corrosion within a hobbling democracy
Altruism died along side a Calvary king
United we stand divided we'll get mauled
Severe stratification at the political ball
Time bomb attached to societal tumors
Insidious forces lurking about a white room
Caucuses are in the teeth of the 666 beast...

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"By Your Side" a song by Sade but written in this time of the end inspired by the True God Jehovah to sing to Jesus Brothers, saying come back to me, I need my 12 Tribes of Israel to be completed before i unleash my angels and the four winds of destruction blowing through this earthly place with no more forgiveness in these biblical ages....

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I love how it’s symmetrical,
Each side a perfect match.
In former days, when jeans were ripped,
It made the perfect patch.

To call someone a square, though,
Was insulting, but a deal
That’s square was something good, just like
Receiving a square meal.

We square away our debts;
A square dance can be lots of fun.
I could go on forever or
Go back to (pause)…square one!...

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THE FRAME

Walking along a mountain trail
We came upon this simple frame
So scant and weathered leaning
Logs peeled and frail

An old canteen
Side a dry creek
Some empty cans
Held pork and beans

Just rocks and sticks
The small clearing
Had been ravaged
By nature’s licks

We stood a spell
Imagining 
(cabin complete)
(retreat - to dwell)

In days long gone
What was the change
Death or taxes?
Then we moved on...

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two shoes lie mirrored
forgotten when spring cleaning -
the wake remembered

The use of 'lie' in line 1 is meant, a play on words to try and create a double image /
feeling depending on how it is read.

1. Two shoes laying side by side, a mirror reflection of each other
2. The shoes, just by their presence there imply that they are used, which as the reader
discovers later in the Haiku is in fact a lie....

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You're gone from my life, but you still
Sit by my side; a breath to fill.
And say, "You can do it, and will."

If I could bring you back.

Do you recall when I met you?
You touched me, shiver went right through.
You were the one for me I knew.

You'd fill the love I'd lack.

We'd put our foreheads together,
Navigate through stormy weather;
Lay our souls on fields of heather.

Never turn and backtrack....

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Eat your heart out, and what is left
The lips that pout, the soul bereft
The loss of love, the lack of heart
The stress of life, in whole or part

The sweeter side, of love and bliss
May not confide, a tender kiss
But on your side, a single hope
Of joy inside, by how you cope

The peace within, may start anew
For how you win, is what you do
The more you give, the more you save
The will to live, by what you gave....

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Two torn halves a battling,

Cannon shots be heard,

For war rages on forward,

Day and night, no respite to be found,

Hands betraying, a gun no longer safe in hand,

Fear that claws at the weary soldier,

Before he takes a life,

He prays with tears and begs for love,

The shot he does fire,

So it is the last,

For the war has now ceased,

No side a winner,

Silence be heard,

For no other ever witnessed this war....

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With eyes the size of saucers
Spirits hanging low
Drool dripping downward
Lump in the throat

Face of confusion
Mass hysteria
Doubled down delusion
Mostly unaware

Left side a-twitching
Head spinning round
Frontal lobe missing
Knuckles dragging the ground

Temperature rising
Ears blowing smoke
With this there's no denying
I'm now ready to vote!


Just thinking about the up coming elections in America 
and the great choices we have!...

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They drag me along down side canals
By my hair I come
Left alone I spiral down
Grace has seen me through 
Longing for my own pleasure 
To come and I go as I wish 
Until grabbed in a grip  
Leave me be so success won't fail
But one little whisper 
And all is undone
Plunged into the furnace of life
Out the other side a hollow husk  
Matted
Ready to be burnished along the road 
In the end I may shine 
In the very end 
I didn't know where I was going to begin with...

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That lonely sinking feeling is gone, I’m no longer lost, you found me, and now I pick up my cross, and I follow you, to the ends of the earth, through the beautiful landscapes, and harsh deserts, I know I can handle anything since you’ve came in, the blood of the lamb has washed away my sins, I’m cleansed, born again, death is no longer the end, through you I have eternal life, by your side, a gift I cannot hide, so I ask you to work through me so others can be brought into your light....

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