burning would / storing could

would / past tense of will                                                       could / past tense of can would that you  supply my needs and attend to my every whim to which the voice…

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curtain in your window

in this world there is so much to see and wonderful things to explore but you have to go out and look for them rarely do they come knocking at your door somehow they seem to elude you and I wondered why that was so but after knowing you for this short time it has…

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poet

a poet writes a few more lines to ease his troubled mind about another lover gone down the drain/ he laughs and cries , writes and sighs about the things he can’t understand/ a briefcase holds my life, tells it all once or twice about what I’ve finished and what I have left undone every…

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alone can be nice

alone can be nice if the timing is right, to find out what you are all about time to retrace look back and embrace the things that make you who you are alone not by force, alone by choice, wandering through the pages of your life you look ahead through time, read between the lines,…

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friends are hard to find

friends are the people who take you as you are/ they don’t judge you and your words don’t leave scars/they don’t keep their feelings tucked away in a jar friends are hard to find friends are the people who forgive and forget/they don’t keep you down because you’ve slipped/they don’t caring/they’ll never quit friends are…

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when the bottom / becomes the top

walking in this slop/because i let my defenses drop/now i have to forgive and move on/so the bottom can become the top like a seesaw life teeters on the spot between what’s good for you / and what’s  not/ so to keep this thing in balance often there are things you have to drop………………like blame…

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s y s d m s

saying your sorry doesn’t mean shit,  you’ve been saying it a long time and it’s time to quit, so either  do something about it or don’t say a word ,                        “cause we are tired of hearing sorry for things we continue to observe” change…

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everyman

i try to step into someone else’s shoes and look from their perspective / i write especially for those who never looked into verse or considered it as something they might find interesting……………….give it a shot and write down things that affect you……………………it  will change you ———————————————————————————————–for everyman / my word/ who breathes and bleeds /…

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Silverback

fear of leaving mother’s side slipped away a little each day venturing, i became aware there are many things to see and do i was forever running from playmate to playmate/tree to tree relationships formed and blossomed/ friends came and went however, intimate love eluded me   sitting on an outcropping of bamboo shoots, i…

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brothers 4 ben an jon

we walk different roads       crossing different streets      encountering  different faces                   better to share than to stare          easier to judge than to understand                     babies cry instinctively, when we…

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