Touch the Earth, Reach the Sky
...Touching Earth,
reaching sky.
I walk salt shores
where all Souls fly
over joy's ocean,
under sad bad lands
my faith in quests
we could understand
When to touch this Earth
to feel our sky...
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Categories:
bad lands, earth, faith, health, integrity,
Form: Lyric
Star Gazer
...He awoke from a fitful repose
his legs twitching in death throes,
each held by a pinion driven through his ankles.
He opened his eyes
from the sojourn of deep-sleep oblivion.
He peered...
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Categories:
bad lands, sky, stars,
Form: Free verse
Bend
...What you wanted to see became me,
what it was was inert,
inept-
complacent-
What you wanted to be was everything,
the world had a hand in the monetary spindle,
leaks looted the bad-land...
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Categories:
bad lands, allegory, assonance, confidence, conflict,
Form: Blitz
Out From the Ashes
...Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Out From The Ashes
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: November/2015
A lone Holly Berry
bush -
In
a land of carnivorous weeds;
Is a jewel.
A Holly Berry...
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Categories:
bad lands, childhood, destiny, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Cowboys In the Badlands
...Cowboys in the Badlands
The horses need be reined tightly
lest they show better judgment
and head back to the barn. The
cowboys, driven by the dust cloud
of following hoof beats, were less ...
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Categories:
bad lands, culture, life,
Form: Free verse
Time Lapse
...Places that once had names
changed by wind and rain
and sun and shifting sands
once mapped and framed
bad lands claim
dry bones.
Desert meets sky
and rivers run dry
and road is lost
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Categories:
bad lands, sky, time,
Form: Free verse
The Cougar
...Lady liberty, hold your flame light high,
Beware the path thy cross, in the wild undiscovered
Wilderness of the U.S.A.
For it is here a fierce native predator,
Stalks the rocky ranges bad land...
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Categories:
bad lands, america, animal, beauty, courage,
Form: Free verse
Jumiper
...Spiral tendancies
Growing towards heaven's blanket
Bad lands survivor...
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Categories:
bad lands, inspirational, nature,
Form: Haiku
Autumn In Our City, City In Our Autumn
...Our sun is weak
In efforts to fill up our sky today
It’s bleak, a softness of gray marches in
Blanketing our forecast
Mild autumn, cool breeze
Peaceful, rolling low
Dead leaves sweeping around...
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Categories:
bad lands, naturefamily, autumn, autumn, city,
Form: Lyric
Last Rodeo
...Yesterday outlaws were in view
so what happened of just me and you.
As we both know this is not our first
rodeo,We must learn to lean on each
other to grow.
We cant help they both let go ten...
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Categories:
bad lands, anniversary, husband
Form: Prose Poetry
Bad Fourty-Four
...As I look down at the little town,
I left so long ago,
I remember things and all those dreams,
That I wanted so.
I carry a gun and am on the run,
But this I tend to forget.
I ride down the hill...
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Categories:
bad lands, cowboy-western, death
Form: Rhyme