Lady Misery

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There once was a lady from town

Whose face always wore a frown.

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No humor or concession

Can change her complexion.

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She looks like a sad-faced clown…

-aaa

Consumed and Tossed Asunder

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You tear me apart with every word

You strip away my flesh and bone

This situation is quite absurd

You’re toxic treatment I can’t condone

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You manipulated me and told lies

Many false words led me astray

Relationships dwindle when the love dies

The best parts of me were ripped away

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I covered you in my blanket of love

You smothered me in your cruel hate

I brought you peace like a dove

And you left me to choke on my fate

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Through great effort I lost all that weight

And I gained a lot of muscle

You never noticed until it was too late

Rendering moot much my hustle

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A starving man, I was neglected

As your love was withheld from me

Instead of being protected

Your ugliness consumed me

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I wanted to be your lover

Though you never really did care

Instead I got screwed over

And you were my cross to bear

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So I had bid goodbye to you

Long before you left our sacral bed

Today I try to think the best of you

But worms of your memory burrow holes in my head… ~ ~ ~

-aaa

Bright Yellow Orb

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I remember the blazing sun

Bathing me in its golden rays

Hours of playful warm fun

All beneath its burning gaze

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Even when it was hidden

Behind a wall of cloud

I knew the sun wasn’t ridden

As did the multitude of the crowd…

-aaa

Daily Question # 52

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What was the last live performance you saw?

The last live show I saw was Depeche Mode at Crypto Arena in Los Angeles a couple weeks before Christmas 2023.

The show was very good and the band did not disappoint. Highlight of the evening was a stunning rendition of my favorite off of violator, Waiting for the Night to Fall.

This was my sixth time seeing Depeche and I feel quite nostalgic recalling my first time seeing one of my favorite bands some 36 years ago.

The Depeche Mode Pasadena Rose Bowl concert of 1988 was my first concert and I was 16 years old. It was the 101st and final leg of their Music For The Masses tour. This was long concert that was almost a mini festival. With Wire as the opening act, followed by Thomas Dolby, then Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, and the heading band.

This set the tone for what would become a lifetime love of live music and concerts that continues to this day.

Music is my greatest passion and love and I’m privileged to have seen many great live bands. I look forward to enjoying many more. Whether you’re 16, or 24, or 36, or even 52, there’s great music out there to experience. I’ll see you all at the next big act!

-aaa

Shrew Askew

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We all know someone who’s a total shrew

But there is little that we can do

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Just complaining all the time

About the weather and crime

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And her elder sister lives in a shoe.

-aaa

A Poets Work is Never Done

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Consonants, syllables, words, and beat

These are the color pallets of a poet

There are no shortcuts or way to cheat

Ask any one of us, as we all know it

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Usually one line comes to mind

As we create something new

Each poem, one of a kind

As our processes are tried and true

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Counting syllables with one hand

Per the rules of a poetry type

Only a poet understands

The efforts involved as they write

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Often when the writing is done

One stanza must be erased

This is part of our editing fun

As our poems form, post haste

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Quatrains, haikus, raikus, and quadrilles

A myriad of forms for the poet to choose

Using our creativity to climb those hills

So that our readers will be amused

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Then at last we’re finally through

All the words are down and complete

There’s nothing really left to do

Except go to WordPress and publish the latest suite.

-aaa

A Woman of Three Quatrains

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There she is in all her beauty.

A gift to the world is what she is.

Good at all in life, gee whiz.

A wondrous person truly.

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Practically a super model and more to boot.

I can’t get her out of my mind.

Dressed to the hilt in the nicest clothes.

Truly a credit to all women kind.

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Just being herself she’s happy inside.

Moving through life with a gentle glide.

She’s comfortable just being her.

The best times of our life are about to occur.

-aaa

Insomniac Theater

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(Haiku Series)

The sandman has left.

Leaving me bitter despair.

How can I sleep now?

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Counting sheep won’t work.

Even counting large numbers.

Something has to work.

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Try a Benadryl.

They sometimes make me tired.

Ugh I’m still awake.

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Try and edible.

Slow down my brain and relax.

Relaxed, but awake.

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Try melatonin.

They help me get tired fast.

If they work, that is.

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I’ll just clear my mind.

Not a thought whatsoever.

Mind is now empty.

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Gently meditate.

See everything and nothing.

Then let it all pass.

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Thinking of methods.

To end my insomnia.

Have made me sleepy.

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I’m almost drifting.

Embracing dark nothingness.

Sleepy bliss awaits…

-aaa

Daily question number 51.

Anthony6 Comments

What do you do to be involved in the community?

For a time I volunteered at a food bank and found it very satisfying and fulfilling. I will likely do this again in the near future I can’t volunteer at that food bank because my ex-wife often goes there to help. there are a lot of food poor in America and food banks definitely help and the food is not squandered, and people are not taking advantage.

Even when I got my masters degree in English, I devoted many of my projects to helping the food poor. To better have volunteers, sponsors, and monetary donors find a Food bank and be able to make a big difference.

I designed the website, did a couple of YouTube videos and presentations, and even filled out a whole grant on how to fund it.

I think one day in the near future, I’ll bring it back to life and try and make it happen for real rather than in the classroom.

Thank you for reading.

-aaa

Know Your Worth!

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Many people have no rhyme or reason

They’re there for a week or maybe a season

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You value their time but you’re just a choice

In the scheme of things you have no voice

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You have strong feelings and you’re never late

Though you’re not their first choice for a date

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As you wait, you chomp at the fetter

Wishing that they’d like you better

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But nothing changes and you’re to blame

For staying an option and playing their games

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Knowing they’re out with someone else

While you gather dust upon a shelf

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You have much better things to do

And enjoying people who think so too

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Be yourself and you’ll never finish last

Now discount your troubled past

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Come back to a better living

Happy with your life of giving

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Worry not, that the world has turned

Remember the lessons you have learned

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Know you’re worth and don’t accept less

A future where you’re someone’s best

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Take these words to heart and run

As now it’s your turn to have some fun…

-aaa

Separate Ways

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We had gone as far as we could.

Said all that we could say.

We can do no further good.

So neither of us want to stay.

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Our last words are being said.

Along with a deep firm hug.

For one last time I held her head.

Feeling my heart give that familiar tug.

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The times we had were very hard.

Many situations were each unfair.

Our story mapped on a crooked chart.

Painful times we both did share.

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As I hold her for the last time.

Fresh warm tears stain my face.

Break-ups are horrible like the scene of a crime.

Pain, ruin, and destruction all over the place.

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What was the final cause?

I’m not sure if we’ll ever know.

Many bad circumstances we tripped across.

Never finding any stability or flow.

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We share heartfelt goodbyes.

And many “I’m sorries” in our embrace.

We let go, I give kiss her forehead as she cries.

I softly wipe the tears streaking down her face.

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The life we shared now at an end.

And the memories of it today, are just a haze.

Once we were lovers, but now distant friends.

Parting, each we go our separate ways…

-aaa

Forward

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Originally Published 04/04/2024

Architect of change.

Your mannerisms are strange.

See a rearrange.

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Brave, daring, and all.

Don’t be afraid of the fall.

Changes are a call.

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Raising arms with pride.

A crucial journey inside.

Nothing more to hide.

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Growing by the day.

Self doubt now in disarray.

Living for today.

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Nothing to confide.

All is open on my side.

Goals that are quite wide.

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All talents in play.

Use each, it’s the only way.

Need more can I say?

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Be what’s meant to be.

See all things others can’t see.

Now you’re truly free.

-aaa

-epoH- (a collection by related Haikus)

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Originally Published 04/03/2024

Please listen to me.

All may seem lost right now.

It’s just a journey.

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It’s not set in stone.

The fates are not finished yet.

Heal and move forward.

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I know you’re shattered.

And your heart feels like it’s gone.

You will love again.

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Honest it’s the truth.

Heal and be your highest self.

Manifest your dreams.

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This is not bullshit.

Building up the best life ever.

Is what you will do.

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One day at a time.

You will become whole again.

A bright shining light.

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Stand tall at the peak.

Most in the world never touch.

All that you can sense.

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Most will never feel.

The vast flood of emotions.

They are not alive.

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Stand alone for now.

Knowing you are everything.

Beyond everyone.

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One in a trillion. Unique?

An understatement.

You, truly are, love.

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Earth is just stupid.

Spirituals suffer the most.

Love is just that hard….

-aaa

Daily Question # 50

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What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?

I’m doing it now day and night, writing a storm of material. 😊

The best part is it’s for more than one day it’s for every day. 😊

-aaa

Sunset Lovers

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It’s nearly sunset.

Oranges grow to reds and pinks.

Daylight it’s falling.

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We dance on the beach.

In the day’s end afterglow.

We and the sky, burn.

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I need your soft touch.

I get 1000 goose-bumps.

Each time you’re near me.

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Shadows are now gone.

There just isn’t enough light.

But we do not mind.

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A bright sun now sets.

But we are just beginning.

Sharing an embrace.

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As you draw in close.

Your breathing, fast soft whispers.

Your heart, beating fast.

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Your lips, sweet candy.

Warm and willing to meet mine.

We share long kiss.

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The two become one.

United in passion’s fire.

Unending pleasures…

-aaa

Daily question # 49

Anthony24 Comments

Purchasing Trends for Market Research

What are your favorite brands and why?

Today I choose not to answer this question. In my humble opinion, this is a marketing ploy. “What is your favorite brand I mean really??” Is this so the manufacturers can find out who likes them the most? It’s enough that all of us are paying at least a little to host our blogs sharing our souls here (maybe some of us more than others), and now some marketing firm is going to buy this information and sell to the highest bidder?

I do like the answers everybody’s sharing and I like that they’re sharing what they love and that’s great and that’s what the daily questions should be all about. However, when you’re talking about sharing specific branding preferences for products I feel like this is a market research.

Many people, (including myself) pour their hearts and souls out in their blogs. Therefore, I respectfully choose to abstain from today’s daily question and not answer it. I hope my subscribers/friends, will understand.

Thank you for reading as always.

-aaa

¡NO!

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Originally Published 04/03/2024

Originally composed to a young girl on a bet for a kiss in 1992, when she pointed to a garbage bin that read “No fire no ashes” on the side of it as my subject of inspiration.

No heat no fire.

No wants no desire.

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No pain no gain.

No clouds no rain.

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No love no hate.

No destiny no fate.

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No passions no sex.

No more emotional wrecks.

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No music no beat.

No fire no heat.

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No wanting no need.

No selfishness no greed.

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No water no sea.

No you and no me.

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No ins and no outs.

No whispers no shouts.

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No future no past.

No first no last.

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No sharing challenges or feats.

No posts and no tweets.

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No sky and no moon.

No April, May, or June.

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No warmth no sun.

Last line I’m done…

-aaa

I Kissed Her

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I kissed her freckles and stroked her thighs

Kissed her face and gazed in her eyes

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I kissed her arm and kissed her hands

I kissed her belly button and had other plans

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I kissed her toes and kissed her nose

I kissed her neck carefully, so nothing shows

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I kissed her ankles I kissed her ink

I kissed her on the kitchen sink

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I kissed her on the small of her back

I kissed her as her head arched back

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I kissed her eyelids and kissed her lips

I kissed her wrists and caressed her hips

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I kissed her forehead and kissed her chest

I kissed her elbows and all the rest

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I kissed her ears and nibbled with intention

I kissed her in places that I cannot mention

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I kissed her body and it’s beauty was a feast

I kissed her all night to say the least…

-aaa

Mayan Princess :-)(-;

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Previously Published 04/03/2024

Mighty Ophelia.

See you at the meeting place.

My soul needs warming.

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Please bring your music.

I’d like to sing together.

Sonic love moves me.

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Catching the giggles.

Endless laughter between us.

Added to our fun.

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Dressed like a Tomboy.

Chucks, rock teeshirts, mini skirts.

So adorable.

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Hazel eyes that warm.

A touch that boggles the mind.

Lips softer than silk.

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Freckles on dark skin.

Body, firm that haunts my dreams.

A soft alluring voice.

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Such beautiful legs.

Shapely and quite beautiful.

Like the rest of her.

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Let’s melt together.

Conglomerate our passions.

Meet in a warm space.

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Tangling our legs.

Always led to better things.

Like many kisses

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Passionate kisses.

Your embrace is all I need.

It’s food for my soul.

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Biting her right hand.

To stifle screams of pleasure.

Pleasing all her needs.

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A mirror to each.

We could read each other’s mind.

Thoughts preceded words.

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Though time has passed since.

You left an eternal touch.

On my very soul.

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One day she was gone.

She drifted far far away.

From lover to friend.

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There is no goodbye.

I will always feel your touch.

In my deepest dreams.

-aaa ❤️🔥❤️

Daily Question # 48

Anthony4 Comments

List the people you admire and look to for advice…

I have many people I look to for advice. I have some very dear friends I’ve known for a number of years. I trust them and their judgment and that they’ll be frank with me.

I have definitely turned to family for similar reasons as friends as trust and honesty are present as well.

Lastly, I trust my intuition and judgement when encountering changes and challenges in my life. I augment that with the knowledge I’ve learned from experience and the advice of trusted family and friends.

-aaa

Back to Front Front to Back

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This is something new I’m attempting to try

Tis a challenge it may make my brain fry.

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While rhyming the beginning and the end

I’ll be trying to start some new trend.

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Words that rhyme in the front and back

Absurd this effort to keep on track.

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I fear my content might suffer

Sigh, this poetry has little buffer.

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Hoping my subscribers won’t mind

Coping with odd writings of this kind.

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Wondering what comments I might get

Pondering this work, I might regret

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Bold as it may be the only time will tell

Cold as a reception would be hell.

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So, I think I’ll end this right here

Though, this output is overtly clear…

-aaa

A Silly Set of Raikus

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Let us sing a song.

With lyrics that are all wrong.

Sing it for too long.

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Let us tap a dance.

While wearing our backwards pants.

As if in a trance.

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Let us cook some food.

Using our gas range and hood.

That’ll be quite good.

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Let us talk the talk.

while enjoying a brisk walk.

I know we won’t balk.

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Let us end this rhyme.

It’s been a small uphill climb.

But it’s about time…

-aaa

Unanswered Questions

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What do you do?

What do you do when your dreams don’t come true?

What should you do?

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What do you feel?

What do you feel when the world is too real?

What should you feel?

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What do you say?

What do you say at the end of the day?

What could you say?

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What do we give?

What do we give with just one to live?

What should we give?

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How do you dream?

How do you dream when your life is serene?

How could you dream?

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How will you be?

How will you be when no one can see?

How should you be?

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How fast do you run?

How fast do you run when you’re running from the sun?

How fast could you run?

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How do you love?

How do you love like a star up above?

How should you love?

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What do you want?

What do you want just a quick little jaunt?

What should you want?

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How do you play?

How do you play just a roll in the hay?

How could you play?

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How will this poem end?

How will this poem end, my dear friend?

When I say it ends.

-aaa

Daily Question #47

Anthony8 Comments

Today’s question is a doozy for me. I’m all about voting and everybody should participate in our democracy however, there is a reason why I don’t register to vote.

This is gonna sound crazy, but every time I registered to vote, I get jury duty. I’ve had more jury duty than anybody else I’ve ever known. I received at least 20 summons, have been on two trials and was also on a panel.

I don’t know it’s because my last name begins with an “A”, or what but it’s ridiculous. Every trial I burn out my vacation time or I don’t get paid at all and it’s ridiculous. I know tons of people who’ve never ever received the summons in their life, let alone was a juror in a trial.

But it has to have something to do with the voter registration and so I haven’t registered since I moved back to Southern California.

I understand it’s our civic duty to serve, but I’ve done mine and many others over, and it’s time everybody does theirs. This is why I think it has to do with the voter registration. I moved to a new location in Southern California registered to vote and jury duty, again registered to vote and jury duty, moved again registered to and again vote jury duty. I moved to Texas registered to vote and jury duty., I moved back to California registered to vote and jury duty, moved to Arizona and registered jury duty again. It makes me wonder if there’s some conspiracy or something. 🤣🤣

Thereafter I’d happily register to vote and perform my jury duty that will come to me as soon as I do.

-aaa

A love that Almost Was…

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Fire was in your eyes.

Embers spreading from your soul.

Fire’s out of control.

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Love was in your heart.

Sweetest dreams were in your mind.

The passionate kind.

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Gentle was your touch.

Your soft hands are everywhere.

Touched my face and hair.

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Quite warm was your smile.

It would stop and melt my heart.

Adored from the start.

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Velvet was your skin.

Silky-soft freckled and tan.

I once as your man.

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So girly your laugh.

Higher pitched and very sweet.

Your humor a treat.

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I’m so glad we met.

Those times I’ll never forget.

I have no regrets…

-aaa

Caresses

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“Touch me very softly”, she said

So I caressed her precious head

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Running my fingers through hair

I can hear her gently sigh

Her feelings safe with none to fear

She closes both of her eyes

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She drifts and floats to welcomed sleep

I hold her and her breathing is deep

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She has a dream of a crystal clear lake

And the waters ebb in gentle waves

I have my dream, but I am awake

Receiving the love that my heart craves

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She awakens well rested after a while

And I continue to hold her with a smile…

-aaa ❤️