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GregLanier
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I love to sing while strumming a guitar and to write poetry. My poetry is atrocious, my playing is egregious, and my singing makes mocking birds suicidal. It makes me feel good though, so the birds will will have to find therapy. My left brain keeps the house lights on while my right brain keeps the soul lights on. Welcome kindred spirits.

Submitted Poems 28 total

Hindsight

This old house is getting cluttered
And the walls are getting scarred
As I wander through life’s living room
Of broken Mason jars
And I can’t afford the rent this month
I drank it in the bar
Ain’t it funny how you see things twenty-twenty

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by Greg Lanier

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Sometimes I’m Drunk

Sometimes I’m drunk
Sometimes I’m stoned
Sometimes I’m tired
Of being alone
Sometimes I’m up
Sometimes I’m down
Sometimes misguided
Just hangin’ around

Every day’s another day of choices
One more chance to grab what you can get
Nobody...

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Cozy Comfort

Life can be such an awesome event
When you realize your last dollar is spent
And those dreams are not quite close enough
To wash your boat past the rocky...

by Greg Lanier

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The Velvet

I walked into a velvet yard
and spake a velvet tongue.
Then pulled across my velvet eyes
the lids of velvet young.

And then I lifted velvet hands
up to my velvet face
to feel the lines of age beyond
my tarnished, brassy...

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Places in the Ground

There are places in the ground
Where treasure chests can still be found
But all the wisdom buried there
Has long decayed from lack of wear

How do I know that once there lied
A secret treasure in disguise?
I read a book.
I...

by Greg Lanier

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Hang in there, brother, one day at a time

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I liked the different perspective it brings and that is the ultimate goal of good poetry…precisely phrase a different way to see the world.

27 days ago

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Thanks Ronald. It is a love song.

1 month ago

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Great submissions and very hard to pick a winner. I pinned 15 or 20, then had to slowly whittle away. This is an awe-inspiring community.

1 month ago

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Grabs you from the first line. Good stuff.

1 month ago

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Too funny. Thanks

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thanks

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That ending just popped out. Surprised me too. Thanks for the review.

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Wow, Ruthie! Powerful stuff! Great writing and a great story that should speak to a lot of folks living the same nightmare you lived. Congrats on getting free.

1 month ago

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Excellent, Ruth! We can’t stop the rain, but we can control how we deal with the rain. I think writing about it is an excellent way to respond. I’m glad that this poem encouraged you. Now we can both encourage others. I’ll check out your post. 

1 month ago

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Thanks Ronald

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Go for it, Mitch. Putting them to music helps me improve the poem, weeding out rough spots to improve the flow.

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Thanks for the feedback.

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Thanks Thomas

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You made my day. Thanks!

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