Who Are You?
To give me sorrow on her eve of death
To leave a letter on her dusty desk
Who the hell cares
Well I do
Who are you to flatter lies
While bald eagles and buzzards spatter the skies
leave me a message that makes some sense
Not a trap or a fence
Who the hell cares
Well I do
My life is hollow without her
Yours just might be the same
Fly like the eagle
Even when feeble
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Leave Me a Message
Write on the wall
In the spring winter or fall
Do it next year what the hell
Or perhaps in 2012
We owe one another a mark to remember
Perhaps the 11th of september
Hug and kiss the one you love
On the wings of that snow white dove.
Leave me the message in my olfactory nerves
Or in my aging tired eyes
I may taste it on the tip of my tongue
The message should be sung
By the old and the young
God bless our troops
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Sweet emotion
The taste of raspberry on her lips
Green apple candy
And fruit with strawberry dips
Aroma of lavender after a shower
Basil on pizza
Put there just to tease ya
Licorice sticks with sweet vanilla swirls
A beautiful girl with long golden curls
Cave into the emotion
A brand new puppy with big brown eyes
His aroma is lovely and pungent
I think I'll call him cinnamon
The smell of cloves on a freshly baked ham
And the taste of sweet candied yams
Make me drool like cinnamon
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Courtneys Love
Our furry friends give us love
They greet us with wiggles and wags
Unconditional love they give
Trough life as they live
Her friend is remembered with tears
Also with smiles for the years
For the pleasure they gave to each other
I truly believe that the lord above
Will reunite them in heaven
With wiggles and wags
Therefor our best friends
Will never be sad
For your dog is smiling from heaven above
For the woman she truly loved
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Fruit flies
Fruit flies made me realize the eyes I gazed into
The genes I wanted to fill made be blind and blond.
So then I sang a goofy song,
Perhaps one so full of the info
That it was the prostate of life that I did get into.
So..are they blue, green or dark brown.
Love those eyes that smiles and naught frowns.
Fruit of our life, a banana in the sun
Gives us a reason to break out those microscopes.
So please heed the class of 69...
Fruit flies ate our bananas
But we knew the the designer jeans they wore.
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Through and Through
A frown just a smile upside down
A smile a country mile wide
That, s you by my side
Living with you throughout the year
Brings a gentle tear
give me a break for every downy flake
Of snow
On a gloomy lake
Sing me a song like a mockingbird
Don't make it short but long
Live like a lover smitten
While we are united in flight
Oh the melody so sweet
A flake of snow
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Love Is Never Lost
True love is earned with thought and deed
A blossom of beauty after planting a seed
A memory in life benign
Of a spouse or child
Or a pet ever so kind
love is an odor that brings back memories
It is found on a street of fearless endeavors
It is all around you in the earth and the sky
The thrill of love will make you high
Broken hearts never lose faith
because true love is a vast chasm
You wander through and always feel safe
The world goes on with love on its sleeve
for you and for me to always retrieve.
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Scare Myself
I am afraid.Of what I don, t know
Perhaps of my life with its ebb and its flow
Some days i, m up
And others I, m down
lonely and cold
But other days bold
Should I open my mouth
Or just travel south
Should I endure the cold of winters blast
Or enjoy a blast from the past.
Snowboard a bit with my cane
What a trip
Hang out in the ice
With a chick really nice
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Lonely Poets
Lonely poets submit lonely poems
Like their dogs and their exes
When your a redneck like me
We fish and we hunt,
Looking to hunt
When the old lady lets us
So check this out, I fished instead and caught a memory,
She never had seen even bait.
I told her for shark we needed mammals and such
We had a talk
She said it smelled like pure t hell
I said what the heck my chittlings turned green
So let's use them for bait or with asses to mate
Give it up for my long ear girl
, Shark bait is cheap and so is road kill
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Tough Cookies
I just want to wander again
Like a youngster in my worldly playpen
Playing marbles in a dusty dirt ring
That was my favorite thing
My catseyes were shiny and new
My shooter was marbled with red white and blue
Every marble I sought in that ring
Was a treasure that made me a king
Life was so great
Not a thing on my plate
So with a smile on my face
Sunburned in spring
Browned in early fall
I want to live that life again
So i'll give it my all
Remember we were the best shooters of all
When life greyed us in the late fall.
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