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Best Poems Written by Donna Goodale

Below are the all-time best Donna Goodale poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Song of Myself

Flexing, the leaves, like iron
Tortured by constant upheaval
Grasping at the edge with
Fading will and wanting strength
Stubbornness, a pawing bull
In the brunt of swirling
Winds brought from beyond
The future horizon shining
In expanding glory
Watching as the leaves
Remain like iron.
Purely by desire, they remain
Like a bubbling river pressured
Above its banks without letting go.
No law contains unruliness as
The leaves, flexing, like iron,
Remain.

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Seasoned Beauty

Shades of fall, sounds of autumn
Jutting rocks witnesses of constant change
Beneath clouds of white amid expanses of
Blue reflected in rippling flows straining
Against earthen banks like traffic cops or
Standing navigators, deciding direction
Yet yielding to persistence as
Dirt joins water
Disrupting vision
Blurring the future

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Sunset

A brush streaking across a periwinkle canvas
Above the green fields of grass stretching
As children to reach as high as adults.
Paint smears before human eyes
While the setting sun gives its long farewell
As lovers loathing to part at any time.
Small illuminations dot a town
After the warmth of light has departed
As candles being lit in celebration or remembrance.

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Slower Pace

Speed
Is a foreign concept
In the cool mountain air
As patience and observance
Take their rightful place
In the slower pace of 
Enjoyment

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Creative Process

To envision is key
To create is progressive
To admire is satisfaction

To envision is moving
To create is flying
To admire is landing

To envision is expansion
To create is application
To admire is remembrance

To envision is involvement
To create is freedom
To admire is realization

To envision is creation
To create is admiration
To admire is envisioning

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The Scene

The dance of the trees in the never ceasing breeze
The song of the stream magnifies the scene
A blanket of green as earth slopes and leans
The serenity of a rooftop in the middle of tree tops
The shadows grow long as I listen to the songs
The mountains rise and my heart sits on high

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After the Rain

The clouds linger
In hope of being replenished.
The trees stretch
And shake off lethargy again.
The birds disrupt
Constancy with spontaneity.
The squirrels emerge
And return to their hoarding.
The flowers jump
With life and promise.
The grass sparkles
As it begs for the sun's returned warmth.
The worms gasp
For breaths of fresh, dry air.
The water pools
And trickles until it returns to the river.
Life returns
To normal as the earth dries.

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Civilization Lost

Stone homes of ancient memories
Sentinels sleeping under white
Locked in a fading breath
Of the long lost keeper.
Life trapped in timeless glass
Glimpsed amid weathering bones
Outlining the ways of forgetfulness.

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Nothing Lasts Forever

Friends warm the heart like the sun
And ease the soul like a breeze through the trees
They come and go in cycles, but are always remembered
Like the memory of sunshine when there are clouds
And the wish for wind when all is still
They leave marks that are never forgotten
And the effects are forever even when they've gone
The important part is that they came at all

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Freedom

The dance of the trees in the never ceasing breeze
The song of the stream magnifies the scene
A blanket of green as earth slopes and leans
The serenity of a rooftop in the middle of tree tops
The shadows grow long as I listen to the songs
The mountains rise and my heart sits on high