Best Aeries Poems

Someday I'd like to wander free
like butterfly, like bumblebee,
perhaps to plant a willow tree
beside the silent solemn sea,

before these things exist no more,
from mountain top...

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I know I’ve made a thousand journeys,
withstood the tests of time and foe
shed the dust and shouldered worries
struggled onward against the flow.

Unconforming, seldom bending
straight the...

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November 29, 2023
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The footfalls are audible in the hall.
I can...

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There they rested on rusting rails so regal yet so stark.
An old steam engine and its caboose now sit silent in the park.
Since I was...

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We ask the sky, how brave is night,
whose shining moon and stars set right
earth's course through darkness  shadowed maze
until the dawn greets, sun ablaze.

Night...

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When growing up on the farm in Indiana even at 'round the age of three,
I began to notice simple yet beautiful things that surrounded me.
Strange...

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I was born
Under a bad sign
The sign of the scorpion
In late October
In the year of the Goat

I did my chart once
I had five stars
In Scorpio

Sun,...

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Her barely wings stretch out loud
With hopes of landing on a cloud
She eyes a launch her perch so proud
All aeries watch as if a crowd

A...

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Out of an earthly finality of death,
Life rises, embraces freed souls,
above the mournful masses,
Life soars higher than eagle's aeries.
Life encircles broken hearts,
rising, rising.
The sweet Lord,...

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