Flashing, Flashing Lights
rays of flashing lights, flashing in the dead of night
so I screwed up and pulled the red handle, the screaming fire alarm sounds off, so I figured it was a water line, yet no, a dry air system, so I summoned the guard, my racing heart beating hard, flashing lights, alarm silenced, yet lights still flashing, flashing into the night
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To Witt
In so much pain my friend
Before you left
Can't imagine
What you went through
The Lord took you early
So we may see
His love for your friends and family
A group of friends you held so dear
Argrueing with the umps
You had no fear
So let's make this clear
Save a few seats for us
For the final game
You'll forever be in our
Hall of fame
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Housekeepers Plea
For those of you
Who don't understand
We too, own part of this land
For years they degraded us
Every way they could
How can our hatred for them
Be misunderstood
You high and mighty
With all your big bucks
Wake up
Make your own coffee
Wipe off your own table
Shine your own floor
We're not taking it
No more
We're gone now
Out the door
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Ignore
Can you see me scream
Can you hear me bleed
Has the lack of rationale
Negated my need
To be seen
To be heard
To be understood
Would you pray God to help me
If you only could
Would divine intervention
Be enough to quite me
Within myself
Indefinitely
My struggle contentment
A void never filled
My fear loneliness
It haunts me Now, still
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Pathetic Rhyme
Is it possible to have death
within life?
To suffer a tragedy,
deal with the strife
When a part of you dies
can you erase
the embarrassing times of shame and disgrace?
Do they understand
what you've been through?
Can the lack of experience
sympathize with you?
so many questions, so little time
to find the answers of this pathetic rhyme
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Peaches
Coppered tabby feline
a friend to all
strutting languidly
across the street
most affectionate and a pleasure
to meet
the purrs were mellow
steadfast and true
a brief life
a quick stroke
made us all blue
we lost a true friend
Gods' gift to this life
tears were streaming on our faces that day
as we laid him to rest
we said goodbye
our way
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Sister Lisa
You were the quiet one
for the two years you are older
yet still the wiser
I have only a tantalizing verse for you
just that I'm so dam proud
of the woman you've become
you're children are gorgeous
baking in the good Lords'
glory
to do GODS' will
with no steady man
perhaps one day
even in the month of May
a beast will cry
'catch me if you can'
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Her Boyfriend
Your menacing stare
Pierces my core
Your nail like words
Pin her to the floor
She cannot escape
Your loving fist
And her bruises of love
Are hard to miss
You broke her jaw
That awefull night
No one believed
That you had a fight
Why you keep her alive
I'll never know
If you kill her now
There's one thing for sure
You will not touch
Her immortal soul
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Dakota
He lays effortlessly
Constantly, on his favorite chair
Polar bear look-alike sammy
Raps his junk food junkie
Humongeous, ninety-five pound frame
From beef jerky
To ham hock bones
He devours
Returning from a car ride
He's unmovable
He pants and whines from walking twenty feet
To the snow covered deck
He's huggable
Squeezable
Cares less if spring
Excists
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Ducks on a Pond
rain falling, falling down
ducks and their kinder
all around
searching for a piece of bread
yet to be found
I languidly stroll to meet their wishes
tossing crumbs
to fill their tummys
dag nammit, now I did it
the whole klan arrives
like Pattons army
my few kernels of corn
I toss at a safe distance
offer no resistance
emptying my can
then took off and ran
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