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    Make up on the Spot

    The spot grew larger until it filled my world,
    Then it wasn't a spot, it was a nightmare unfurled!
    Let's make it up! I said.
    Phew! It whirled up again, grew smaller, withdrew.
    No longer a spot, just a dot on the horizon;
    I watched it carefully.

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    Om

    I meditate upon the spot.
    It meditates on me.
    And when I'm medicated, well
    My meditation cannot tell
    If that's the spot or me.

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    is the spot
    going to dot
    or is it going to be a lot?
    either way it needs to not
    too much can become a got.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Polka Dots

    This spot could be a polka dot.
    Some say that it is not.
    It's red and round on shiny gold.
    Some still say it is not.
    But I insist that they have got
    Their metaphors all wrong.
    The facts are there,
    But they don't care
    Today to sing along.

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    When I wrote the poem, I felt substantially "tiny brightly colored animal icons are my only friends"

    May sensations of tiny brightly colored animal icons bless you and your poetry

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    When I wrote the poem, I felt slightly "Anonymous Chupacabra is my SOULMATE!"

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    Easy Rhymes Unless They're Not, or How My Problems with Alice Got Started

    I put the plant into the pot.
    The sun came out and it got hot.
    I watered it, perhaps a lot.
    I placed the pot upon that spot
    When Alice said I better not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YesNo View Post
    I put the plant into the pot.
    The sun came out and it got hot.
    I watered it, perhaps a lot.
    I placed the pot upon that spot
    When Alice said I better not.
    I like this one YesNo
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    life is a kite
    and when the wind
    blows
    it rise
    and when it rains
    it lows
    nothing drives
    it until
    it loads.
    energy is that little
    bit of flow
    realise it and woe.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Quote Originally Posted by cacian View Post
    realise it and woe.
    Thanks, cacian. I liked that last line.

    Whoa!

    "Whoa!" I said unto my horse.
    My horse said, "Rider, woe.
    Dismount or I will take you there,
    To Heathenwood, my Queen rules where
    The gold and silver sparkles. Dare
    You ride with me to her wild charms
    Embrace her with your human arms...."
    I told my horse, "Let's go!"

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    This is a poem made up on the spot.
    I think it's probably fly dirt,
    but without a microscope,
    or an analytical chemist,
    perhaps some CSI
    desperate for a job,
    it's hard to tell.

    Too many kinds of spot to be sure
    but at least I know it's not a zit.
    A zit is a very recognisable type of spot,
    for it has form and content,
    and, if you squeeze it,
    you can usually get something out of it.

    A bit like this poem, really;
    a putrid harbour for bacteria,
    an infection waiting to spread,
    a cancer waiting to metastasise,
    a barrage of imagery
    that takes you somewhere you
    probably have no desire to be.
    Art.
    In part.

    By the way, the spot is brown,
    about three point five millimetres in diameter
    and it adheres to the page of a book
    while masquerading as an over-grown full stop.

    Maybe, if I leave it long enough,
    a bookworm will eat it,
    sicken and die.
    No more bookworm,
    no more spot.

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    Fun poem. Enjoyed.

    My favorite:
    a barrage of imagery
    that takes you somewhere you
    probably have no desire to be.
    Art.
    In part.
    Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
    tailor STATELY
    tailor

    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    Glad you thought so and did

    Live long and prosper - H

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    I was sleeping hard, as experiences run
    And let me say it wasn't much fun.
    I fell off the bed, and there you go.
    Now you know more than ya need to know.

    This is the way a proud man speaks.
    He fills his time with valleys and peaks.
    We all have those, but he himself thinks
    His are worthy of tales and drinks.

    They are not, he's a sad fellow.
    I'm not happy, but I'm mellow.
    I say to him, we're all the same.
    Our tales are grand, but mostly tame.

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    The philosopher spoke of division
    He said they were many but mainly two
    and one was us and the other was you.

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    And when he spoke of division he rarely hesitated
    He went on about the who and the why and the what
    and he seldom waited for the membership to cry
    and they were crying there in the seats
    won't you unlock me from this here seat?
    And he had no time for that, he was seated a bit higher.

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