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Best Poems Written by Stanley Yarberry

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Chicken Poop

everything came from the back door
a peace offering sandwich
something to be lost on the clothes line
and when the door slamed close
chickens scramed with their necks crained back
in their traditional drinking mode
the sound of the back door latch
was forever in thier collective memories
handed down in their genes
the door shut as they drank their last
their soft fluffy feathers turned to down
thoughts left on trianged ground
like the hard edges of earth was the cure
mixed with ash from cooking fires
their poop was like sin and cancer combined
scraped from the feet of snotty nosed boys
corpes stacked like the forgiveness of all
on weathered picnic tables feathered
as if a calibration for nutrition 
was calculated in pounds of chicken heads
feathers, bodies and poop

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A Dogs Cat

the challenge of keeping a cat
is managing the vocabulary 
so we dance standing still
sparring sparrow and canary


trading shallow gutless will
for what we both would rather
she finds the pain to give
her claws drawn and gathered


her sword is buried
with wildest creed
while I on bended knee
loser geese set her free
now I know but misery 


spotless debris her grin
night sow back the shadow
we know who is the friend
and who plays the banjo


if she were a valiant being
she would rear and paw the air
like a plastic monkey on a string
she would leave us in despire

now she sleeps on her throne
while i lick my ozzing chewing
at last i can enjoy my bone
while she dreams of crazy ruining

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Twisting Hair In a Hollow

when we think to make believe
following a recent passing
love thrills beyond remark
as it fills the everlasting
hope ends without its washing
weathered gray replace the green
like starlight disembarking
as lips pray into the dream
tears quench weary wishing
time crawls through hollow fires
like a baby made of kindling
linking the last of a memory
to hair and fingers twisting

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Rivers' Dream

St. Lawrence river in the spring 

when a lake makes the ocean its' dream

shallow ice and sand bend the wind

the twigs begin to twitch and spin

sandwiched like a water gin

buds burn through the fragile skin

never is there  amendment 

sloughed grained signals silently sent 

as vast white  feathers float to shore.

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Next of Kin

love can bind memories
sorrow blends with wind
water drips into a stream
thin as a skim of skin

as ghost is to remembering
like members of a greater sin
they should be only simmering
in a broth of the bitter end.

so it is to shooting up
falling into the glimmering
joy comes to who we were
when we were higher withering

living with the next of kin.

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Mars Candy Bar

in the distance

with little assistance 

there was the silencing of an owl

that woke a consistent worry

in the  thinking of a cow 

that something persistent was going down 

the night soothing hooting

a head spinning around

there was a fox in the hen

house

 there was a sound

underground

 there was a magnet on the loose

the moon was turning brown

and sheltered from this whisp 

was the sniffing of a hound.

Preserverance has subsistence 

like candy makes one frown

and our injections are reflections

of a course of damning mounds.