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Under the Bridge

We all know of one

A rusty old train trestle

Or a highway,  maybe an old street

A bridge,  going from ridge to ridge

Underneath,

The secret place where as young boys we would meet

Having adventures,  climbing and playing

And telling stories that could not be beat

One day,  imagine what would cross my mind

When a stack of old 70`s porno mag`s we did find

Showing privat...

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Time to Purge

Out with the old

And in with the new

To the year 2020 

A big screw you

The new year is here

Bringing lots of cheer

On News Years Day

I plan to do things in a new way

I will make the usual resolutions

Count down the days until

Their eventual dissolutions

One promise to myself I will keep

I will no longer mope and weep

This struggle with time I have won

So.....

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Goodbye

While reflecting on the year 2020.

It brought a tear too my eye.

Nothing but memories of misery.

And I wondered why.

The year was very bad for me personally.

Then add the virus,  that could make me die.

I consider myself an old man.

And this has been the worse year yet,  that is no lie.

Then I sensed some relief,  2020 is almost over.

And I let out a long sigh.

I will...

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Filling in

Santa got stuck in the chimney.

Good thing the fire was out.

Fuck my luck, I am really stuck.

I heard him scream and shout.

Santa said, do not worry about me.

There are more presents to distribute about.

Take my hat, and jump on the sleigh, and go finish my route.

Rudolph will light the way.

But I warn you,  all the reindeer have bad gas.

So use that face mask, to cover ...

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The Real Christmas

I believed that Santa Claus would come.

On Christmas night, after I went to bed.

Down the chimney I was told.

Feet first,  that big belly,  then his red and white capped head.

A sack full of toys slung over his shoulder.

To give to me,  if I was a good boy all year,  is what Mom said.

Whatever I asked for,  Santa would put in gift wrapped boxes.

And under the ceremonial tree, ...

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Odd Man Out

I have always been the odd ball.

One of the black sheep.

Always in my own space.

Away from the main heap.

I often walk at a different pace.

Beside the main trail, Slowly I creep.

Does it matter how I get there.

If we are going the same place.

I will blaze a new path, leave footprints, deep.

For other black sheep to follow, not hiding their face.

We all head for the sa...

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What Happened?

You are like the empty Tin Man.

But you are full of echoing lies.

You have no heart within.

And you I now despise.

I thought you were my friend.

but,  to your continued silence.

I did get wise.

You started out so different.

but your impertinence comes with no surprise.

You are not the first to just cut off contact.

But from you,  I expected an explanation as to why.

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A piece of you

On everything you touch.

And in everything you do.

With everyone you see.

You leave a piece of you.

When you share yourself with others.

There is an impression that you make.

Uniquely linked to you.

A bond that will never break.

So,  Because there is a piece of you.

In everyone you see.

And in everything you do.

Memories of you will never fade away.

Accept that ...

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A chip off the old block

My name is JD.

I am of my fathers seed.

If you knew the man.

You would agree he was a special breed.

Because of him.

I grew to be a man with great speed.

When I am cut, it is his blood that I bleed.

When times were good,  Father was in the lead.

When times were bad,  it was Father that I need.

If I wanted something,  he helped with little greed.

Fathers advice was wis...

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Wanting True Love

When my lips caress your body.

My intention is to caress your heart.

I can release your sexual tension.

But I have wanted more,  right from the start.

I want you to forever love me.

Unfortunately,  when it comes to love,  I am not too smart.

And I think that love,  is sex.

And have made giving sexual release,  an art.

Sexual partners can be plenty.

But they all love me f...

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Believing in Heaven

My thoughts are wide.

About where we go when we have died.

I am troubled trying to decide.

Believing in Heaven is the trend.

For me hard to comprehend.

I often think, Heaven is pretend.

But you say, to heaven I will go.

If I live life, by the ten commandments.

Given to us long ago.

And resist temptation.

From the Devil down below.

If I may,  let me tell you,  on th...

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PISSED OFF

When provoked.

My natural instinct, is to fight you until death.

A defense reaction.

Because someone once tried to take away,

My breath.

I do not want to hurt you.

I am trying to stop the pain in me.

It is the voices, saying, 

You are trying to keep me from being free.

You must have backed me into a corner.

This fact,  for what it is,  you must see.

Somehow,  you h...

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What am I, if not, what I am

I am a dreamer.

I dream I have a Genie in a bottle,

Granting my wishes, with just a blink.

I am a drug addict.

Only allowing marijuanna now,

I benifit from its effects, is what I think.

I am an alcoholic.

Twelve years, and four months, without a drink.

I am a sadomasochist.

Finding pleasure in trading emotional pain.

And allowing my dignity to shrink.

I am compulsi...

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My Kindred Spirit

Can two complete opposites,

Be exactually the same.

The answer is yes, I firmly proclaim.

I have found my kindred spirit.

And I can tell you with delight.

We share the same heart, and the same soul.,

Love for each other at first sight.

The magnet has two poles, 

Pulling from the left, and from the right.

The earth splits the suns rays.

Half of the earth dark, and the ...

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My promise to you.

If I invite you in and offer friendship.

As your path through life has you passing by.

If I open my arms to embrace you.

And express a love you cannot deny.

If I offer you a strong and broad shoulder.

On which you can lay your weary head,

And let out a long, relieving, cry.

If I comfort your heart and soul.

And with your needs, and desires, I do comply.

If I offer you ad...

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Alone

Sometimes I just do not give a damn.

You do not know how lonely I am.

Too hell with Covit-19, I want to be "me".

So... Out there I go, seeing friends that I know.

I want to be living life, like before, simple and free.

I no longer cover my face.

Not with close friends, while in my own place.

I now take chances to a large degree.

Please understand, at six feet apart.

I ca...

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Plotting a course

Dear infant Grandson.

If from this world, Grandpa does depart.

Before you have mastered our language too an art.

My dreams, my desires, were to prepare you for this world.

I wanted to show you my maps.

And teach you how to read my collection of charts.

I believe you are my reason for being here. 

Right from the very start.

I want to be your navigator, your ship-shape crew.

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Why

Its the tremble in your belly.

And the way your legs shake.

Your rumbling moan,  and the other sounds you make.

I like the dimples in your thighs.

And I like that you role your eyes.

I won`t take a break,  your relief is at stake.

I love how I can make you feel.

I can`t believe how loud you squeal.

I will make this thing my meal.

While right here up in it,  I know you di...

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Do you have "IT"

Can you see what you are not looking at?

Can you hear what you are not listing to?

Can you feel what you have not touched?

Can you smell and taste your visions?

Can you think with your mind, and decide with your gut? 

Can you understand something immediately,

Without the need for conscious reasoning?

Have you thought to yourself,  YES  already?

You have  "IT".  Your (sixth)...

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The hook

Because I am what I am.

And I do what I do.

I leave hooks in the water,  for people like you.

My bait is different,  a curiosity you see.

I fish the bottom waters also.

That is where I knew you would be.

I put it out there,  this is true.

Everything about me you already knew.

While I play with your women.

And have them freely,  as my toy.

You bit the hook also.

Bri...

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The Gift

I was recently given a gift.

Something of mine from long ago.

The gift of talent and creativity.

Which I already had.

Buried deep.   

Under lives load of bull.

The talents we have are often hidden.

Under the very conditions that made them so.

It seems one of my talents is writing poetry.

Words that I think are wise,  

I can leave behind to read.

Long after I go.

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My life

My life is like boating in a barrel.

Around in circles.

With nothing new to explore.

Going nowhere fast.

Like my boat only has one oar.

Or,  maybe in a room with four walls.

And not having a door.

And life says, in your room, nothing to rest on.

Not even a floor.

And do not reach for the ceiling.

It is endless space, "closing in".

Trapping my mind with freedom of t...

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Meeting St. Peter

While my body slumbers.

My mind entertains itself while it waits.

I dreamt I was a car,  in line,  at the Pearly Gates.

And in the mist stands St. Peter, 

Who says,  my turn awaits.

St. Peter says,  I am rusty and squeaky.

And ready for the scrap pile.

I say,  no,  I may be crumbled and leaky.

But I think I am a savable classic,

And should stay around for a while.

St....

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The Thanksgiving Poem

Lord,

I am finding it hard to be thankful today.

Or...  Am I more thankful than ever,

In some peculiar, kind of way.

The year 2020, pitiful,

Is the least I can say.

A dreadful test of my endurance,

Is there a message that you are trying to convey?

This plague we have been sent this year is a test of faith,

Its obstruction, and destruction, quite the display.

Is this a...

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What I do not see, cannot hurt me.

I am fearful I might bump my head.

As, I am walking through life blind.

I tap along with my cane, 

Embracing the darkness.

Expectations of help,  dead. 

Feeble assistance,  declined.

I no longer hear also.

This is how things are designed.

Cocooned in silient darkness.

Comforting,  yet so confined.

I have to much fear, 

To look,  and to hear.

What I see just blow...

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Within the confines of my Cranium.

I feel that I am quite alone,

with the thoughts I am having.

Inside of the bone.

I am uncomfortable, 

expressing my thoughts,

out, in the unknown.

For, fear, of being miss-understood.

Because of the emotions I have shown.

Anger, and control, issues dominate.

To these faults, I am prone.

I lose my "Cool" when,

I am out of my safety zone.

Another relationship, I, ...

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My Best Friend

I can and have.

Made my best friend,  an enemy.

I can and have.

Considered an enemy,  my friend.

This is not the trend.

To consider an enemy your friend.

But in your favor it may lend.

And what a message it will send.

if one can consider his enemy.

His best friend.

 

By JD Bardo

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Caution ! Door swings both ways.

If you are neutral about your sexual orientation.

And fearful that others observation.

May effect their consideration.

When forming opinions about your reputation.

And, if you are suffering from others discrimination.

And it is causing you extreme frustration. 

Remember, it is a new generation.

There is no need for explanation.

And you will come to the revelation.

That t...

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My Prayer for Peace, (and its answer)

To God I did implore.

Our troubles, our worries, please, do not ignore.

We need a new way, new ideas to explore.

God said, "Sorry"......

Looks like you are in for, a great BIG Race War.

Your dominating rulers are meeting secretly, behind closed doors.

Planning their systemic ways.

To suppress the Man struggling to get his head up off the floor.

With "them" making the rules,...

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Giving "Thanks"

With you I would like to share this word.

When giving "Thanks" this year.

Consider everything good, which has occurred. 

If Covid-19 has touched your life.

And our suffering has your thankfulness, blurred.

I ask,  do you not place a new value on life?

And,  there is sunshine above the clouds, I have heard.

Especially now,

To NOT have Hope, and Faith, would be absurd.

The...

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Thinking

I pick up a handful of soil,

From underneath my feet.

I hold it up to the sun,

That gives us light and heat.

Intensely,

My mind ponders these creations.

I cannot help but wonder,

About our relations.

The soil, and the light,

Renew every day.

So, curiously I think,

What will come my way?

Soon, my bodies life will be done.

It will decay....

Back into the soi...

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Memories

Memories.

Memories can be a lonely thing.

If there is no one to share them with.

Sadness they can bring.

As we age,

Memories fade away.

Some, unfortunately,

Are here to stay.

My memories are so very grand.

I wish to share them throughout the land.

And, if I might be so very bold.

I believe I have good stories to be told.

I need for you to listen, you see.

Mem...

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Patience

To understand patience,

Think of waiting on the growing of a seed.

You wait, and you wait.

With no promises guaranteed.

For what and for why.

There is always something that you need.

Your plans, and your goals.

Will take time it is agreed.

You slowly and carefully nuture your plans.

If you are to succeed.

You must accept and tolerate changing conditions.

As you pro...

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My education

Way back when.

This is what I read.

The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew.

Highlight magizine, and the Funny pages to.

News headlines, and obituaries, the sports pages,

And commentaries.

As a boy,

I delivered the local news publication.

I was not good at formal education.

Never learned punctuation.

Or paragraph formation.

In fourth grade.

I turned in a book report on "...

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A letter to Leah (untitled)

(picture a 90 pound chocolate Labrador, female,) 

To my devoted and loving companion Leah.

When you came into my life I was burdened.

When you left my life I was broken.

I am overwhelmed now with sorrow and loneliness,

And cannot bear the thought of living life without you.

However, as I do, you will live on forever within me.

As I learned from you the satisfaction of having s...

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a BAD start to the year 2020

My dog had up and died.

So... I buried her outside.

Frozen was the soil.......

To dig the hole, I sure did toil.

Just days later, I broke my leg.

Same week, that came the plaque.

Now I could not walk.

And I was to angry to talk.

Not that I could, 

No one that I know would.

Stuck in a chair.

Could not drive anywhere.

Could not go to the store.

And the food was...

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The LAZY student

Damn them A,B,C`s.

Look what reading has done for me.

The world far and wide, now, I can see.

The words, they say, will set my mind free.

And help me decide, who, and what, I want to be.

Reading will make me smart I am told.

It will give me expectation, that my determination,

Will help my inspiration, unfold.

They say reading will expand my imagination.

Give question exp...

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What scares ME

For Haloween we put on a costume.

But what should I wear?

The Vampires cape?

Or the Witches hat, with her broom.

I never know who to be....

Am I the bride? Or am I the groom?

Am I the vicious monster?

Or the damsel saved from doom.

This trick of the mind, is not a treat, of any kind.

The confusion is painful, you may assume.

So.... on Haloween this year.

I will hav...

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I will make the Devil "my bitch"

As I delve into the devils frontier.

I see that witching hour must be near.

The hunters moon, on Haloween did appear.

Alerting me danger is near.

But, to my plan I must adhere.

Its J.D. the ghosts and gobblins will fear. 

When I take the Devil by his balls, 

And shove his fork up his rear.

With the Devil slain, and over his career.

I will take his throne, and his angels ...

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Missing you.

There was no one special in my life when I penned this one, 

So it is to YOU, my new friends at WOL, (here we go)

 

Its your smile, your glow.

And everything you know.

The way you share with me.

Keep up my curiosity.

And make me not want you to go.

You have no clue, how much I think of you.

And why my feelings grew.

Its what you are, a shining star.

To follow and k...

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The LIGHT,

I found my new beginning.

While standing at the end.

That is not what I was looking for.

This way, I will now ascend.

The light, the guide, the power.

Says the old ways I must amend.

For in the new beginning.

Everyone is my friend.

The warmth, of the light, comforts me.

Those sharing friendship, I wish, never to offend.

Like the light, that cast out the darkness.

O...

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Like a grain of sand

     I will not accept that I am the same as all the others.The millions before me, the millions to come after. NO I say! I am special, I am different. I want to stand out and be noticed. I want my life to have mattered. I want to be remembered. And the millions before me, and the millions to come after, may feel the same way. making us all the same. 

     Like a grain of sand, no two alike in ...

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Tears on the Typewriter & "WORD PLAY"

I used my voice, I used my word.

But, my thoughts, my feelings, were not heard.

I looked right at you, face to face.

But I could not put you in my place.

When I speak to you, there is confusion, it is clear.

My presence, my essence, can cause panic, and fear.

So alone I have to be, twenty-four hours a day.

To reach you, I will write, and call it "word play".

Interpret what ...

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Our Future

I look to the horizon and watch the dawn break.

Once again, several hours, I have been awake.

Being unable to sleep, I no longer can take.

My interest, my happyness, again I must fake.

We raise the flag to a new day.

We salute, we recite our anthem, our respect we pay.

But what does it mean? did the real point stray?

Our young, the next generation, they want a new way.

They...

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Prepared

The bins are full of grain.

The harvest beat the rain.

I have a winters worth of meat.

The, hunting could not be beat.

I have wood stacked in a pile.

I have been sewing furs for a while.

The cabin is warm and dry.

If I keep the fire going, I will not die.

I have everything I sought.

So, why this nagging thought?

Oh, damn, I know what it is I think.

I forgot the wat...

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The Mirror

Fuck that damn mirror, that is not me.

I seriously do not like what I see.

I have changed, to a large degree.

From pimples, too wrinkles,

And my pants I again can pee.

The deeper I look, the farther I see.

Way, way, back, the little boy at three.

Discovering life, running wild, and free.

Now, beat down by life.

Asking, "to be, or not to be".

No going back, just the on...

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Going Places

I would like you to meet,

My sore and blistered feet.

I am proud of what they did complete.

I am sure you to, will think it is really, neat.

While they have no special class, or special style.

They have been getting me around for many a mile.

Stories of the places they have taken me.

Can fill a very, large file.

Now, I will tell the stories that will make you smile.

Save...

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J.P.`s "RIDE"

I`m going to ride around on my Big Wheel.

I can spin the tires, and that whole ordeal.

I can peddle fast, and really make them squeal.

I will take a ride, and show off my appeal.

I cleaned my wheels, their, shine is ideal.

I am jamming to "Low Rider". I have the whole feel.

This Big Wheel will do, until Dad gets me the real deal.

Some day, Dad will get me a Ford, made of cold ...

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The skin we are in.

If we go way back, we will find we are all kin.

Family we are, fighting amongst ourselves,

Should be considered a sin.

Of all the diferences we could fight about,

We are obessed with the diference of "The skin we are in".

If we cannot live in harmony, no one will win.

Let us find common ground, based on what is within.

Concentrate on what makes us the same.

Think of the one...

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The "beat"

Here I sit, just me and my huntin` dog.

Pounding this stick, on this old log.

Listening to the beat.

While we wait on the cooking meat.

What can I do with the skin from this butchered, hog.

I made an instrument, to play while I hum.

This thing I, made, I will call a drum.  

While I play, here the cave women come.

Into the light of the fire.

Their shape I sure do admire.

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