Best Adams Poems

Shadows of light and darkness
Contrasting images of El Capitan
Half Dome sliced by an ice age glacier

I met him that day in Yosemite
Touched by the unique qualities of his photos
Fine prints are displayed at his gallery

I marveled at his skill
Black and white contrasts 
Create spiritual moments...

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She, Of The Cosmic Essence
Aware Of A Power
Aware Of A Presence
And Aware Of The Need For Our
Desire To Rise Higher
… and Higher
To Our Optimum Height
Patricia … You Are Like The Alaskan Lights
Those Northern Flares and Colors In Cold Night 
Floating Dreams, So Mesmerizing
Patricia, Brings It...

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And so they sat, this learned three
in full pursuit of liberty,
the turkey, eagle and the dove
looked down upon them from above.

The declaration almost writ
they rubbed their chins a little bit;
looked heavenward, and there espied 
their feathered friends, as one they cried: 

The perfect symbol he...

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We drove by her run-down house
with faded green shingles
and boarded-up windows,
a sad feeling overwhelmed us;
many times we helped her
to cut down the thick grass 
and in return she gave us 
three yellow flowers 
as a token of her gratitude... 
no one else could have cared...

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Words softly whisper, thoughts float as dreams, a poetic angel it seems

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12/31/19
Written for the: Who Flips Your Trolley Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Bobby May...

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A time capsule was uncovered in Olde Boston the other day.

   'Twas found in the Statehouse cornerstone, so they say.

      'Twas placed there by patriots Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.

        ...

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Beth Adams, I've searched for you
Your reading my poems I appreciate
My problem is I can't find you listed 
So I can say thanks.

I'll just do it this way
And let you know you are welcome
Even though I can't find your comments
God Bless, Cile...

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Her destiny Ruth Adams squarely faced,
that innocent small child whisked off, white-faced,
one day by wild and whooping dark-eyed men,
and never more to see again her kin!

As over prairie ground fast horses raced,
her destiny Ruth Adams squarely faced.
No crying would she dare to let them see
nor...

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Twas in eighteen sixty seven 
The little girl was killed
Frederick baker wrote in his diary
"today I killed a little girl"
Her name was Fanny Adams
was just only eight years old.
Not all her body parts were found. 
About this time the Royal Navy
We're fed cheap meat in...

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9
A cloud…
A prelude
To ecstasy
A sweet fluffy bed
That carries you and me
A floating castle of dreams
Where nothing is quite what it seems
Cloud Number 9: our room in the sky
Making love...as we "watch the world go by!"

Eileen Manassian Ghali...

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A unique vision through the camera lens,
Portraits of nature in black and white.
Letting the beauty of contrast speak.

The California Coastline, the Sierras, 
The Southwest..all in the starkest outline.
And Yosemite, whose grandeur he loved best.

A life spent capturing these wonders
Letting his work inspire; an incentive
To protect...

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Abigail Smith Adams, lady of letters
Miles between her and husband John, circuit lawyer
She let not distance stop their love_be barriers

She oversaw the jobs at home_even the builders
Remarkable lady who taught their children
Abigail Smith Adams, lady of letters

People would come to her during war who were...

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Elegant
short
choppy 
dialogue

War
women
bullfights
and wine

Early morning
backyard
shotgun
a perfect ending...

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Go a head let your ego touch the highest limits of sky 
In the end you're son of ADAM'S , you're mortal , eventually you'll die... 
Go a head let your pride cover the oceans and contain the wind 
No matter how tyranny you get...

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Red ripe is my fruit
Plump and bursting with resentment
Oozing remorse and regret
My pain Ready for you to harvest

I have waited patiently
For your uncontrollable urge
To feast upon my agony
And devour my shame

Your greedy appetite
For my suffering is insatiable
Feed your glutinous desires
As you sink your teeth deep
Into...

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