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A Red Palm

by Gary Soto

You're in this dream of cotton plants.
You raise a hoe, swing, and the first weeds
Fall with a sigh. You take another step,
Chop, and the sigh comes again,
Until you yourself are breathing that way
With each step, a sigh that will follow you into town.

That's hours later. The sun is a red blister
Coming up in your palm. Your back is strong,
Young, not yet the broken chair

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Gone Fishin'

by Delmar Pepper

I've finished life's chores assigned to me,
So put me on a boat headed out to sea.
Please send along my fishing pole
For I've been invited to the fishin' hole.

Where every day is a day to fish,
To fill your heart with every wish.
Don't worry, or feel sad for me,
I'm fishin' with the Master of the sea.

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To A Primrose

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The first seen in the season

Nitens et roboris expers
Turget et insolida est: et spe delectat.
- Ovid, Metam. .

Thy smiles I note, sweet early Flower,
That peeping from thy rustic bower
The festive news to earth dost bring,
A fragrant messenger of Spring.

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If you come back to me

by Aldo Kraas

If you come back to me
You will make my day
Worth
my life is nothing without you
I need somebody
That can cheer me up
When I am feeling down
In the dumps
You say I should smile more often
Because I have a beautiful smile

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The Pig

by Roald Dahl

In England once there lived a big
And wonderfully clever pig.
To everybody it was plain
That Piggy had a massive brain.
He worked out sums inside his head,
There was no book he hadn't read.
He knew what made an airplane fly,
He knew how engines worked and why.
He knew all this, but in the end
One question drove him round the bend:

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Recent Smile Poems

If you come back to me

by Aldo Kraas

Cyril Ramaphosa : clerihew poem

by Ghairo Daniels

Cyril Ramaphosa

his voice box sometimes goes hoars-a

swallowed a Cheshire Cat, great white smile

running miles keeping da Amerikanos on the dial

Mona Lisa : Leonardo da Vinci : Ekphrasis Poem

by Ghairo Daniels

enigmatically enlightened
embodied essence of
o__live imperceptible
darkly moon-fragrant purity a__live
still knowingness of rippled
LAKE LOVE
quiet mirth transitioning
I see the foolish in
YOu and CUP
it marbled

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Nature of Truth : Part 1

by Ghairo Daniels

(Poet’s Note : This poem is the first of two poems on The Nature of Truth)

Truth came from the purest of pure
smell of pine between toes endure
from crystal streams where trout shimmer
like rainbow dreams
from seagulls on wing, willow whisper then sing
deep down Poseidon takes his blue cue anew

She came from violet centres

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Dreams

by Ghairo Daniels

DREAMS (song)

Bring dreams into Being
Shatter oxygen to sing
of Creation’s flowers
of Creation’s powers

Dance the dual

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