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  September 2014     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 7 total

Danbury

The days of summer played
Lakes of cool sweet water
Tanned brown in the sun
Rich if you had a quarter,

Youth barefooted, hot tar roads
Wandering wherever adventure took
Life was all in this moment
A fishing line and a hook,

Rides up old...

– by Richard Poor

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from the shore


I think
the ocean
is my soul.....
here is a vastness
unchartered and pure
unfathomable depths
teeming acceptance
as the waves roll
finding their shores,
that even the moon
is felt in tides
of highs and lows
for the sky is...

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hong kong fueys chop suey

yeah,it was one of those nights

didn't care what I put in me

anything to ease my hunger

and there it was,steaming

as if I didn't know better

something in the way the moon shined

that left me so unaware

outside the world moved by...

– by richard poor

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naked under the stars

it's like this
twilight heralds
colors royal
stars in the night
shine on my soul
a million voices calling
yet I am alone
on this earth
I begged for more
more than expected
life and death
hand in hand
teething
on edges
I honed....

– by Richard Poor

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far from it

how amazin
is this
life
i mean
crazy
like coolness
cat lives
more
than i wanted
still
i need them
reasons
beyond my control
plotted or fated
i am
what was
intended
and that
which was not
my...

– by richard poor

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so do you pay to have your poems posted to be read?

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Nothing awkward about this... Sums up life perfectly. Short and to the point, I like that

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