Best Amateur Poems

Ok I'll get to the point 
I'm here with a list of fears, needs and demands
So I may get on your nerves sometimes
Truth is I don't know how to play this girlfriend game
I get needy and vulnerable and messy
You should know this

I'm not used to...

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Sometimes just a trim; others, a drastic clip;
around-the-world trip with one mighty snip.
	
Children and scissors together, tempt fate;
by the time you check, it's already too late.

Like closing hen-house doors after the chicks are out;
no need to whimper, get angry or shout.

She's taken the scissors, achieved...

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In the myriad map of the skies,
Bright lights twinkle before my eyes;
Lost among the almighty maze,
I marvel to identify star from haze.

Do the celestial sparkles stand or move?
Those twinkling lights so hard to prove,
Seem to stretch and mysteriously change,
Perhaps slight cloud passing by strange.

I concentrate...

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One Sunday morning, I went home to visit mom and dad.
My brother was also there, and I showed them what I had.
The first thing I said to father as soon as I saw him,
was that I had four free tickets to the art museum.
His first...

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You’re trying to hang tough
But your ball's in the rough
Don’t throw a fit
Just think then hit
Forget all that pro stuff
...

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Every sport man’s first ID card,
On him imposing, a period to be on guard;
When the slimmest interest shows in financial gain,
And inglorious quitting is the pain!
Not that affluence one does detest:
Mounting pressures from the east and the west,
One’s body and teeth sometimes rattling
While with an...

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Poorly written words
are etched onto a raggedy 
sheet of paper.

They form into an ugly paragraph
unable to be deciphered 
by anyone older than five.


Finished up and turned in
to the teacher
where she smiles and honors it.

Injected confidence swells inside
an amateur mind
Plastic thoughts

Forming in the brain.
Positive thoughts of...

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Best you had,
Now that’s sad.
Well I’m glad.
I’m no fad,
I’m ironclad.
You alright,
Not so bright.
Can’t you fight,
With this spite.
Where’s the might.
Times ago,
Now shadow.
Left me low,
In the snow,
You now owe.
I then die,
When I cry,
To the sky,
Up so high,
When you lie.
Why is she,
More than me?
You love thee,
I disagree.
Lone latchkey.
In...

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P oet, I'm afraid your words are too small.
O range is a word that won't rhyme at all.
E nd with a full stop, and a coma there.
T he verse you put down is practically bare.
R emember to spell check, find all your mistakes.
Y et this...

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A just beginner
First timer around brand new
NEVER DONE  BEFORE


James Edward Lee Sr  ©2017
10/18/17...

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I'm real good at excuses,
And syntax abuses,
But my ultimate excuse,
I'm an amateur, what's the use?

What do I know from this stuff?
I ain't no diamond in the rough,
I just put down words that come to me,
From someone or place that I can't see

So blame them if...

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(curtain raises)

costumes torn 
   lighting wrong 
make up melts 
   rehearsals long        

missing props 
   forgotten lines 
nervous looks 
   backstage whines 
       
feuding...

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I had a dream a scary dream. 
That I had a business 
Hot and sexy business. 

In my dream i owned a Modeling company 
For men 
In that dream I was not rich but ready for any anomaly
I was my own fan. 

#1 and only...

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I was registered in a
watercolor art class

it was going to be fun
and inspiring
to learn the basics
and experiment
at home

so when I created 
my masterpiece
worth any Picasso
I was so proud
I had to bring it
to my next class ~

imagine my surprise
when the instructor
let out a screech
"that’s not what...

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They’re trying to tell you
That your superstitions and machinations 
Are an exhausting game of whack-a-mole
They’re trying to tell you 
You’ve assumed a version of them
That society told you existed and you never questioned
They’re trying to tell you 
At every corner a new threat lies
From a...

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