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Best Poems Written by Judy Bonin

Below are the all-time best Judy Bonin poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Bright Lights, Big City

I wawnt ta tel yu sthomthin bowt mee
I has a lithsp an sthomtime I git teesthed
  
 kant sthpel vary goood, thisth ith my phlaw
 Sthcool isth fer dumys sesth mye paw
  
 I dosth da lawndrey an da chors
 Paw sthays dats justh wat ime phor
  
 Butt I ghot biger planths dan dat
 I no paw isth a lyin rat
  
I sthaved mee dayng neer tin buksths
Awff ta vegasths, wisth mee luk!

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Baby and the Firefly

One humid, dark Virginia night
Mama holding baby tight
Strolling with no light in sight
With daddy walking on her right
Suddenly to her delight
She see's a floating, flitting light
"Hello there little human sprite"
"Bugs can't talk," she says outright
"And nor can babies of your height"
says the fly who lights the night 
"We can if we try with all our might"
"We've talked a lot so far despite"

"must be special, you and I" 
Baby smiles and waves good bye

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Dream, Dream You Bother Me

Turned down the alley that led to my street 
walked in the door tired and beat 

On my desk were a stack of bills piled high 
was overwhelmed so I shuffled right on by 

Felt dead, went to bed with a pounding head 
When I woke, my apartment was a rickety shed 

I looked down and observed a purple dirt floor 
The sky was bright yellow when I opened up the door 

Black stars overhead in the middle of the day 
In the water of a pond I saw leopards at play 

A hippo sleeping high, top a coconut tree 
He opened one eye to take a look at me 

Tried to keep my cool as I walked on through 
At this point that was really all I could do 

There were clouds made of bees floating over my head 
Dripping honey on the grass that was crimson red 

I awoke once again with a heavy hangover 
You would think that by then my dream would be over 

But when I went out the door, what did I see? 
The hippo sitting high in the coconut tree 

He winked and he nodded with a gap toothed smile 
I decided to go back to bed for a while...

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Awkward

A clumsy encounter

Where words fail

Keeping a distance

With those present

Abetting a slow

Riveting

Demise of dignity

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Chosen Colours

Whoever claimed sorrow be blue 
and crimson - rage would be 
are not aware the darkened hues 
that dwell inside of me 

Sad - I'd paint in shades of gray 
Ash scattered to the sea 
Brown my chosen cast for rage 
Deceitful eyes were these 

Angst would be a mix of all, 
no colors would it lack 
Begins in psychedelic sprawl, 
then quickly turns to black

The browns and grays I hold inside, 
less cumbrous than they seem 
Gazing toward a sunset sky, 
revives the hope in me 

Why, you ask, this silly game? 
I do not fully know 
but rightfully we all can name 
the colors of our soul

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Royal Chambers and Wine

He awoke to find the golden key
 It eluded him so jealously
 The chamber and its soft delight
 now his and her's alone tonight
   
 The canopy’s shear draped satin
 compelled him to sing low in latin
 A language that he never knew
 Delight betwixt his weak knees grew
   
 He caught a glimmer in the bed
 'twas not the one whom he’d just wed
 The door he opened was all wrong
 Too much wine and too much song
   
 led him to the Royal Queen
 this revelation turned him green
 He quickly snuffed the candles' fire
 laid back down where he was prior
   
 Said a prayer – went fast asleep
 A secret he’d forever keep
 In this tale lives a simple lesson
 Some things just aint' worth confessin’

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Fist Full of Sand

A fist full of sand
that sifts through the hand
back to the land
Can't hold on

Feather in the breeze
Think you'd catch it with ease
but its only a tease
It blows away

A twinkling star
seen from afar
but then here we are
Never to touch

Sand at the beach
Feather out of reach
A star thats too far
What LOVE is to me

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Honestly

time heals?
funny
been 30 plus years
this ole heart beats to spite me
I hear it laughing

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Warmth

I drifted, drifted – far away

This tender eve the boat did sway

So gently

 

’Twas but a dream yet on this night

no silent screams or torrid fright

Just waves of such pure delight

Safe from anything that might

Harm me

 

Over me a homemade quilt

so warm and soft and safe it felt

holding me

 

 

Was walking home from work next eve

holding tight to the dream

reliving, reveling – coveting, experiencing

everything

 

Passed a woman on the ground

faced to the wall - sleeping sound

Upon her ragged figure found -

the dirty, torn and weathered quilt

Warm and safe, she must have felt

Dream on

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Pandemic Progress

At first, I was so scared
I smeared lambs blood on my door
Now, I am back to picking my nose again
that's progress for me