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Best Poems Written by Richard Karr

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There Came You

Listening to the quiet off a thought
Painting a fantasy with dreams
A paradise so perfectly wrought
I wished there to never leave
For as fantasies sometimes do
There came an angel there
To this place there came you

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Kaki

I still feel that short embrace
Him turning for one last glance
The look on our mother’s face
Her knowing his fate of chance

What is this cruel affair called war
Who could give such credence
To savage acts and laws ignored
Stand by in silent grievance

Where is this place “over there”?
Where the young men have to go
Why do we heed some foreign scare
From a place that we don’t know

Cast to battle as living pawns
Just a number on a metal tag
Hoping to live till a new day dawns
Avoiding the fate of a body bag 

No stories come from those who fell
Just from only those who lived
Their memories of that living hell
One sole and fragile life to give

Now we know what’s over there
Much more than there was before
There are gravestones everywhere
Rusted hulks left on their shore

Scars brought back are hidden deep
They last through all their years
Comrades call them from their sleep
To fight the nightmare’s fears  

Rest ye soldier someday somewhere
With they that fell and stayed behind
Go back to them we know you care
Find that peace, that peace of mind

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A Poem

Does the willow know?
Does it feel the wind?
Are those just random gestures
Or is it telling me something
As it bows?

Can it know it will never be a tree?
Does it care that the dove knows
There is no branch for him
And passes overhead
To the oak instead

Who hides the nesting  wren?
Her clutch of fragile babes
A cradle for her to keep them in
Hid from the prowler’s raids

T’is the willow
So Mr. Oak now you see
It’s together we make a place
For all of nature to be
Whether or not you are a tree

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Memories Crypt

When this pen of mine it dries
Pondered words in memory dies
Forever lost on paper wrought
Emotions gone in fleeting thought
Left there to beg unwritten script
Falls quiet into memories crypt
What words hath thou in mind
You have failed to leave behind?

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If I Beat You To the Barn

Farm boys, farm boys, go and do your chores
Better take your hat for it’s sunny out-of-doors
Farm boys, farm boys, gotta milk those cows
Milk-em twice a day and feed the hungry sows
Make your mother butter in the butter churn
Argue with your brother when you think it’s not your turn
Measure off the distance you both will have to run
Where it is you’ll need to go to get the milking done
Toe the mark to challenge your brother at the gate
Divvy up the pails to balance out the weight
Farm boys being farm boys down there on the farm
And you’ll milk the cows if I beat you to the barn

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Tranquility

Framed within my window pane
My world shares this with me
And should I want it once again
This place, this tranquility
I shall hide it somewhere deep within
Should time somehow steal it away
Then I will guard it safely there
For us to share another day

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Rain's Serenade

Am I to seek the darkness of disdain?
Drawn by some passion for solitude
By the gentle sound of falling rain
Where I find my emotions imbued
Am I to find myself forlorn?
In the shadow of some cloud
Darkness plying torment’s scorn
With the quiet being too loud
Am I to feel guilt here alone?
In my desire some selfish greed?
Some love I have never known
A furtive dream of my need
Am I to imagine as each droplet falls?
It says to me in a very special way
Listen, listen as my spirit calls
And catch the verses it has to say
Will the magic of this falling rain?
The serenade it plays for me
Embrace me again and again
With its seductive melody

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The Bunny and the Dinosaur

Once upon a time a little bunny was grazing
Totally innocent that something amazing
Was about to happen in an interesting way
As she was eating in the field that day

As you all must know and are very aware
That a bunny is tiny just from being a hare
Dinosaurs are old and of a mammoth size
Them being friends one can hardly surmise

Imagine this bunny with her long pretty ears
Meeting a dino of a million years
Him a Kentrosaurus with a big long tail
Her a rabbit and so delicately frail

One noticed the other eating clover too
So dino said to her how do you do
I am a dino and what is your name
Lets dine together for we eat the same

This bunny was cute and dino was shy
He liked her a lot but didn’t say why
This dino so big and terribly tall
This rabbit so cute and terribly small

One day it rained was a really big storm
He kept her dry and that kept her warm 
So they became closer day after day
They wanted it always to be that way

Then one bright and sunny morning
Came some men without any warning
And they said this old dinosaur 
Escaped out through our back door

In case you think that’s a mystery
Was the museum of natural history
So this is the end, the story is through 
Could be more funny if it were true

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Please Mister

A beggar plied his old worn hat
Propped between his grimy feet
He begged pennies as he sat
On the sidewalk of a city street

Please mister give me a dime
It’s been days since I ate
I get weaker all the time
The reaper stands in wait

Those of habit stepped aside
Avoiding his pleading stare
Begging pennies as he tried
To get someone to care

The beggar begged all the day
People all turned their head
His empty hat stayed that way
And now the beggar is dead

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Silent Rage

I walk in fields of nature’s stage
I adore what life surrounds
While deep within this silent rage
There a roaring seashore pounds
Hiding here I close my eyes
And dream of dreams forbade
I stay clothed in some disguise
While I play in life’s charade
Where is this place this path
Away from such a raging sea
To escape this cruel wrath
And bring peace inside of me?