The Maze
Time keeps on ticking without fail
As I'm on a downward spiral
Trip to hell
My mind loses grip of reality
While my life, unfocused,
Becomes a mystery
Fact turns to fiction,
And fiction to lies
As darkness invades
The soul of my eyes
Echoes of the past
Infinitely scream out
Drowning my hope
In an ocean of doubt
Overcome be fear
Controlled by rage
Love turns to hate
As I'm lost in this maze
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An ode to the past poets
A heartfelt thanks
for the mothers and fathers of verse
you've saved me from this wretched, modern day society
the ever so present calamity
I no longer have to worry 'bout life
twenty years past
still with my wife
been a bad boy
a time or two
forgiven over and over
thanks to you
for when I'm bad, good or in a pensive mood
I need not brood
I grab my pen and then, and then
just write again
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Return of the Mudslinger
It's that time again
Every four years
Just more fearless leaders, liers and lunatics
Can't stand all the mudslingin' politics
It will never be solved
A true leader of this nation
A woman hopeful
The latest sensation
The media so insane without control
The subjects are pigs, lipstick and the black hole
A hole so deep and dark
We will never find
The true meaning of society
Love for all mankind
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Numb
Reality fades
As fiction becomes truth
Sounds blend to static
As my ears start to bleed
I'm walking on the moon
As the birds sing an entrancing lullaby
And the sky melts
From blue to pink
While the rain washes
The color from my eyes
My every hair stands on end
To hear the colors
My ears can't see
I close my eyes
Light still coms in
As they open
My world goes dim
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Safe at Home
Glaring down the man
on the mound
A dogged head likened
to a hound
Gotta reach first
my goal is there
a hit, a bunt, a bean ball
don't really care
So I look
I took
four straight pitches
my jock and my poison, down there
truly itches
I reach first in a hurry
steal second in quite a hurry
I glance at third
as I start to scurry
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Four Sisters (following seven brothers)
Ladies of tough love
you four turned out to be
forever, always fond memories
coming from the black sheep of our family
A gang of twelve kids
a tough time indeed
growing up in a small borough
north of Allentown
The scraping and scrubbing
of the kitchen floors
wiping down walls
re-adjusting the wind leaking doors
strutting to church
high heels on a Sunday morn
Hell hath no fury
liked a womans' scorn
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Don't Shut Us Out
We do not print poetry
The newspaper said
So I burned that paper
Instead
They write about rape, murders and theft
From day to day politics
To the little good will, man does
Are we in a curse
How dare they not print
Our verse
We shall and forever be
A very, very poetic
Society
In our mind, body and soul
So run your papers
Run them in black
Sell them in your box
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Singing Songs, My Way
I will sing my tunes
Everyday, everynight
My way
No, no, I am not
Knowledgeable, educated
With this plight
Go ahead, call me ignorant
Call me an idiot
I will forge forward
Fleeting least
Into this night
I may sing an unlikely tune
Unrealistic, untrue
Only for you
My pointdexter minded friends
So come sit beside me
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The Abrupt Leave
As I stare out my office window
I ponder when I should leave
The row of pines
Along the autobahn like speedway
Cars fly by
Raceway on my mind
Baseball, backyard picnics
A memory
I want to travel
New highways and byways
To see my new friend
We'll meet half-way
Where our hearts will mend
Just a few days
To get away
Solace for me
With my new pal
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Set Your Own Pace - Make Your Own Peace
Take the time for peace
Even the peace within yourself
No one can touch that part of you
Thoughts of your past, in all things you would do
Keep pace, within your own heart
Forgive and forget, make that fresh start
Give a hug and steal a kiss
Don't ever forget, that matrimonial bliss
So forge ahead
Set the pace
Be the first to keep the peace
Breathe in, breathe out
Making love, still is what lifes'
All about
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