Best Scarce Poems

I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there...

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Since I've resolved to laugh at life-
   find humor in its flaws,
      and realize that stress and strife
are...

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The garden of love bids tending
                 so often it...

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Where cold stars exist in the dark,
serene winds whisper to trees
and scarce human ears can listen,
lone songs wail in the distance
in frozen moon's silver spotlight,
a...

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The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a...

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I walked the path to the open meadow
That has been there for so many years
A place to rest and sew new thoughts like stitches
But, everything...

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Barren fields of November
Corn stalks ragged
        broken soldiers
        bleak beauty
 ...

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The color palette of the world has changed.
Wispy painters brush clouds line a clear calm sky.
The day is dry and cold, powdery snow starts to...

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Where cradled canyons sing
Of ebony wood in the forest
There lies a gurgling spring
Where cockcrows sing their chorus
To the melody of singsong birds
There I’ve concealed my...

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"Shopping List"

Sister Kathy's going shopping and she's asked me for my list,
Needing LOTS of help, so I could not her, resist...

I have a Shopping List...

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April Showers (Anacreontic Verse)

Putting the blame
on global warming
winter felt the pinch
rain was scarce
and spring arrived
lamenting its luck
unable to twirl
in habitual gown
of green satin
shyly tiptoeing
keeping a...

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God sometimes does pray to man;
Quite often we hear him not.
But once above the din of earthly prayer 
I did hear his voice;
Through the dizzying...

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Inspiration, A Gift From Sweet Emily's Hands
      (A Tribute To Emily Dickinson)

Sweet Emily, you inspired me
to paint scenes of life's...

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Scarce contained within its bounds
Surging, straining to break free
Pulsating and palpable
Enticed by its pure energy
Mesmerized and drawn, a moth to flame

O, that I might be...

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Written: January 1st, 2023 

Rumi's verse, "The desert beckons us as if it were the oasis,"
         ...

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