TV POET
Most everything fuels a need to write
(His) muse the TV screen
Seeking pregnant bits of sight
Most everything fuels a need to write
In coursing streams of trifles might
He doodles words and worlds it seems
Most everything fuels a need to write
(His) muse, the TV screen
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FAST FOOD POET
His rhyming feels at times like fluff
His message reads too callow
Sincerity seems an oft-used bluff
His rhyming feels at times like fluff
The fast food way he writes his stuff
For some can seem so shallow
His rhyming feels at times like fluff
His message reads too callow
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BREAKAWAY POET
Won’t hang around and wait for you
To push on me excessively
I’ll forge ahead and lose the blues
Won’t hang around and wait for you
I’ve purposed, yes, to seek what’s true
And claim what’s mine most gratefully
Won’t hang around and wait for you
To push on me excessively
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INVETERATE POET
Probing for depth themselves their worth
They plumb for pith ‘beyond the pale’
They push and moil to stave off dearth
Probing for depth themselves their worth
And on they forge each day assail
Those things they must unearth…
Probing for depth themselves their worth
They plumb for pith ‘beyond the pale’
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UNHINDERED POET
Poets pick words carefully, so thoughts and phrases gleam
Those times of smart creation, when words flow full and free
How real this need to dive into an unimpeded stream,
Poets pick words carefully, so thoughts and phrases gleam
Where stifled muses abdicate with threat of fruitless trees,
And wordless wastelands loom so real they stifle what we dream,
Poets pick words carefully, so thoughts and phrases gleam
Those times of smart creation, when words flow full and free
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richard lloyd cederberg
8/2019
               Between the Cracks