Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

How deep is pain once felt and feeling?
The slightest pinch could send one to the edge.
Who is there to measure this grief?
As the one inflicted stares without relief.
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From here.............to there!
Until it pops!
Dropping with a flop.
With no sound of a sizzle.
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'Now you listen to me!
We've had his telephone
'Bugged' for months.
And twice he told a co-conspirator,
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It had been banned...
The truth.
And those who spoke it,
Were ostracized and shunned.
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On the seawall walking,
As the seagulls squawk.
I'm tossing rocks in the water,
But the birds think its fish that I feed!
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People who complain,
About life and what it is not...
Often are disappointed,
They can not use others
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The more ridiculous their outrageous stage...
The more approved the behavior becomes.
This affect of dumb numbskullness is intact.
It is no act!
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Nothing kept precious is ever lost.
We keep it (them) affixed in our minds
To glow brighter.
There it remains...
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Common cows,
Can be found on common lands.
Where the calmness of common life,
Without the bustle and strife exist.
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Aging does not guarantee,
A wisdom and knowledge follows.
Look around.
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