Best Absolves Poems

The steadily falling cold August rains
Continue to pour upon Cheshires lanes;
Over flattening fields of soddened wheat,
Soaking the grass, splashing the feet.

Stands the Combine in the...

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Choose Me.
I sit here upon this darkened sill.
Dust my meadow,cobwebs my forest.
Waiting for you to draw near.
I long for you to become my Master,
-and I...

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He stumbles on the subway
Initially I cringe
I'm put off by the way he smells
From alcoholic binge

He mumbles incoherent
I start to feel ashamed
I slide my hand...

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The world rests in the night.  Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. ...

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Once within our time,
SkyPrince and SunGod talk,
as usual,
endlessly actually,
sending their radiant messages
out toward mutually gravitating receivers,
no Yins allowed to pitch;
just catch integrative flow.

SkyPrince wonders if...

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I have never felt more betrayed
Than when you lied to me
Never was I more dismayed
Than when I cut you free.

Love I sought, and not with...

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Shielded, his logic affects distrust - chill resolve
Mine scatters like dust, dissolves
His lust for my mind absolves
Allows this love to evolve....

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Barabas, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Barabas by T. Wignesan

This insignia that Barabas be
Seditious and murderous
None so worthy as he can be
Bartered body for Jesus

Criminal right...

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Silent Holy Night


In a manger in Bethlehem
Were three strangers, looking for a bed

There was a star above
Bright and holy
Guiding the three wise men
On camels they...

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All this long week
of early spring head colds
our National Public Radio informants
and performers,
speakers and listeners,
have been about the business of raising capital investments
preferably in their...

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Ode to a canvas print

Background: a sullen sky, pale 
light at horizon. Green-water sea 
of snowcapped swells, hint of 
nightfall in the breaking waves. 

Foreground:...

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Negativity ensnares you,
Whispering its deadly tune,
Caressing your doubts,
Coaxing your spirit,
Muffling the light,
Captivating your addiction 

Entranced within the melody,
Absorbed into the lyrics,
Deafened by the volume,
Feel the...

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i have wandered the dusty back roads of my youth
      cut through cotton fields that screamed their brutal truth
 ...

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Enterprising Henry IV declares suzerainty over state
Xenophobic princes seek the royal prerogative to abate
Cautious king uses diplomacy, threats his minions to subjugate
Old rivals in Saxony...

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Seashell
as I take shape
i lie here in wait 
the wind beating
upon my back
my image carved out 
by gritty sands of
life
i feel my grooves;
their hardness
i get...

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