Edwin Baldwin Poems

She sat beside me everyday for nearly two years riding that train.
Most of the time we only shared small talk between us. Once in awhile we'd bring up something with a little more substance to it,
like how she hated her job or how everyone told her she was just like her mother. Her mother had a problem with staying settled and could've been on The Montel Williams Show because they had moved so many times before. She wasn't married and she didn't want any kids of her own. Maybe one day she'd adopt a couple of kids and if so…it would be a girl then a boy
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crank turns
the flap opens,
what state of mind
will appear
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There once was a golden goose named Alice
Who lived with the King in his Royal Palace
The Careless King tossed down
His armored knight and gown
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A bucking mare that was named Annie
Liked kicking at each nook and cranny.
Since Young William was brave
He then mounted this nave,
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I clearly detect all that swirls this blue green world,
and all that toss me about like a ship on the ocean.
I hold the wheel within my hand, my ships Captain.
Keeping fixed to a horizon, slow, and steady as I go,
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Unwanted, uncared for children will learn early on there's no one to answer to;

this soon develops into both the finest of traits, as well as, the worst for them..
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Four millimeters of tempered glass separates your world
from the Homeless Beggar Prince now standing before you
appearing tattered, torn and trampled on like discarded trash
no longer a viable phoenix rising to escape winter's burn
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<center>I'll tell you a joke,
so you'll show me your smile
and that will keep us happy
for awhile
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