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Sea-Shell Shope

She sells those sea shells
Along the sea shore
Cheaper than the sea shells
At the sea-shell store.

It's a shop-keeping nation
In a shop-keeping world.

Shopkeeper, Shopkeeper
What will you do
When all of your neighbors
Are shopkeepers too?

poem by Adeline Foster
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Anniversary of a Death

You sit in your white leather chair.
The pale expression on your face
whispers 'farewell' and fades away.

Anniversary of a death.

And I think she still cries everyday,
three years and counting.

You're smiling at the horn solo.
I can see your gaze
as it shoots through my eyes.

poem by Adeline Morris
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Adeline

My love to you is like a bottle of Guinness from Ireland,
But your laughter to me is like the smile of Barack Obama!
Adeline my love,
My heart is ceded to you like Obama in the Guiness Book of Records;
And don't worry much about life,
Because laughter is the best medicine on this love.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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More Is Less If Off Task

aspiring desiring straight A student
diligent learns indelible lessons success
first second third points all answer

question asked nothing more nothing less
multiple distractions passions beg inclusions
hugely interesting off task not given marks

Dedicated to Adeline who master bakes recipes of success.

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Frost Flowers

Bits and pieces, drops of life
Falling petals, crystal moments
Stage-set in translucent glass
in the snow.

Wondrous heartshapes, sunburst rain
Disremembered, hidden glitter
Lest the petals do not last
in the snow.

Wondrous heartaches, starburst pain
In encrested golden orbs,
Fragile vessels, frozen fast
in the snow.

poem by Adeline Foster
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The Hero Within

Limit yourself to the easy
and the difficult you'll never try.
Easys need live on the fringe of the world
grubbing for nickels and dimes,
Claiming that life has dealt a cruel blow;
crying: the fault is not mine.
Heros need training to do the grand deeds
that earn them a hero's acclaim
It's setting your eye on the hero inside,
knowing you're fair to the game.
Knowing you've got what it takes to be tough
no matter how rough life may be.
I'm a hero, I know it! When my actions show it
it's because I'm a hero to me.

poem by Adeline Foster
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The Solitary’s Wine

A flirtatious woman’s singular gaze
as she slithers towards you, like the white rays
the vibrant moon throws on the trembling sea
where she wishes to bathe her casual beauty,
the last heap of chips in the gambler’s grasp,
skinny Adeline’s licentious kiss,
a fragment of music’s unnerving caress,
resembling a distant human gasp,
none of these equal, O profound bottle,
the powerful balm of your fecund vessel,
kept for the pious poet’s thirsting heart:
you pour out youth, and hope, and life,
and the deepest poverty’s treasure – pride,
filling us with triumph, and the Gods’ divine art!

poem by Charles Baudelaire
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Restaurant fragments

That day we were in Burgundy’s
and somebody played the notes
of “Ballade pour Adeline”
on the piano
and it was peaceful in that restaurant
while a waiter brought the menu
and I ordered a bottle of white wine for you
and drank a glass of golden Hunters.

You were busy with your notebook
and were searching for a shopping list
as if suddenly it had disappeared
but everything was inter-textual
and our life played out in small happenings.

Much too quickly the time between us
was running out
so as if you already
had other greener pastures
and you were busy with the list

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poem by Gert Strydom
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A 40-Year-Old Man Makes Attempts at Flirting with High School Cheerleaders

No, I am not
a feminist.
If I was,
do you honestly think
I would be swooning
over men for their
appearance and
nothing else?

Sometimes
when someone like him
rolls into my life,
it's difficult for me
to appreciate each
person passing through.

And you willfully express
'Those men in
Pakistan really know
how to keep their

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poem by Adeline Morris
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Serenade

So sweet the hour, so calm the time,
I feel it more than half a crime,
When Nature sleeps and stars are mute,
To mar the silence ev'n with lute.
At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes
An image of Elysium lies:
Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven,
Form in the deep another seven:
Endymion nodding from above
Sees in the sea a second love.
Within the valleys dim and brown,
And on the spectral mountain's crown,
The wearied light is dying down,
And earth, and stars, and sea, and sky
Are redolent of sleep, as I
Am redolent of thee and thine
Enthralling love, my Adeline.
But list, O list,- so soft and low
Thy lover's voice tonight shall flow,
That, scarce awake, thy soul shall deem

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poem by Edgar Allan Poe
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