Best 2001 Poems

He died as he lived
Without making waves
Without fanfare
A simple man
A humble man
A loving husband
And devoted father
A man of principles
Of integrity
A dreamer
A macgyver
Determined
To live with integrity
And harmony
At peace with both
Living and dying
Ready to meet His Maker
Leaving with a promise on his lips
To keep over us a...

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Who will unravel the tangled skein
These silken threads of thoughts?
Each strand possesses a special sheen
But is obscured by knots..

The day seems done before it starts
The night seems swathed in gloom..
For though facts fade, memories last
And clouds then hide the moon.

Who will unravel this tangled skein?
I...

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Sunrise on Mankind
lights raw survival
dawn brings the unknown
fear, intelligence
first tools and first fire.

Steps on the moon
but not alone
the ancient form
exposed, now calls

Mission on
under threat
Hal must kill

rebirth
star child

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Train: Florence to Rome.
Tourists: "Did you hear the news?"
On Nine-Eleven.

see author notes...

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for Jake

He is a sun-bronzed god
reigning in my heart,
with his regulation
golf course hair
and sturdy legs;
winning smile, and
eyes that reflect mine
except that his twinkle.

He stands, indignant and proud,
with all the power his
5 1/2 year old ego can muster.
He is sweet with the affection 
only an innocent...

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Monotonous keyboards clicking
Redundant clocks ticking
Phones ringing, elevator doors swinging
Coffee pots brewing, vending machines spewing
Insouciant workers, carefree shirkers loitering
Clerks, secretaries previewing, managers reviewing
Visitors on stairs, in lobby chairs, lines queuing
Fate's dissonant chords o'er content hordes teeming
From Crescent's waning moon, spell of doom flinging
Across availing sky, a...

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I never felt sure
I knew it was possible
even probable

but how could I know
that she would come in winter
through the open doors

how was I to know
on the very first Friday
of the first new year

of a new decade
century, millennium
that love had arrived...

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9/11, 2001
Tuesday morning when it all began
Four Jet Airliners 
Hi-jacked at will
To fly their mission
To kill, blood spill
 
Target chosen
New York City
No questions asked
No pity
 
Internal flight
Laid-en with fuel
Turned off course
To the Hi-jackers rule
Islamist, al-Qaeda is the name they claim
What honest faith
Would want this fame
To...

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Ode to Harris

So they showed you
the politics of poetics
showed you how to sculpt
quotations
as if discreetly yours

sure-e-e... 

they told you of your godhood
at Harvard
but they crucified you at Rowan Tree
fourteen light stained pages
4.95


6-15-00

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Watching years go by
like the wax flow of candles
making mountains on 
unblemished parchment
can’t help...

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Two thousand seven 
Hundred and fifty victims
Murdered, Rest in Peace
 
 
My entry into Nathan's 9-11 contest
 
 
  http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/america.php...

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My heart is in one world, yours is in another,
yet truth says that you are my brother.
We were both born perfect children of God,
but you were wrapped in hate and told that was your job.
I was given freedom, love and the right to dream.
You were...

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The year 2001 was the greatest year of my life. It was when I was at the beginning of my
teenage years. The L.A. Lakers won the NBA Championship, I saw the Twin Towers being
destroyed by a damaged plane on TV in New York City, that...

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3/25/01

FUTILITY FOCUSED
On unimportance
Perfection is put off
Till tomorrow

4/3/01

these shelves
have been emptied out

memories of a love

incinerated
all past tenses

blank name tag, 
blank face serves
as testimonial
loneliness

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On a personal note 4/10/01 my first birthday out of prison and my dreams are being realized…
				Furthermore I have completed my first painting and...

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Fronts

Has coldness 
jarred this rain to life?
or warming earth 
given it motion?
do leaves have a season to fall
or does the earth just need
a blanket in the winter?
Leaves are sprouts again
Spring
having no real reason to ponder
warming earth
just to go outside,
playfully hold intellectual conversations
with freshly sprouted tulips
should...

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Condolences Forever Invoked - 9/11/2001

(I sit corrected for typing year 201, when most of America untrammeled by hordes of humanity, and probably far more similar to the garden of Eden, which approximate space/time continuum disparity only about twenty centuries ago, a place unimaginably wine ding...

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