Best Amiably Poems

When imbalance of life churns hapless poignancy
And the zephyr of inequities breezes melancholy
Dissonance reverberates echoing pathos of grief
Seeking exaltation within metaphysical profundity
As hushed posture conjures up humbling catharsis,
Leaning in quietude, questing paranormal vitality,
Liberating from bounds of mundane, the ordinary,
Energizing calming bliss of unfamiliar, extrasensory.

Mortal soul...

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Somehow I had loved you so,once…
When we relished vintage cherry wine until
The last pitch of a guitar man drifted along
harbour’s bay…and how our shared wishes
gushed around Trevi fountain, tossing coins,
rummaging  new souvenirs that became
endless conversational pieces in our inner loft.
Yes, I held other thoughts...

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A debris  engulfs this mind
when a chuckle, a pirouette, a dream
ransacks  wired thoughts--
and for once, I am a shrill :
Though  weight presses on  hardened back,
images  dig   dig through shovels of the past
to unearth replays from a year ago--

This...

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Sensuous as a kiss, gift of romantic dreams, 
Your essence I feel as you tiptoe stealthily
Alluring sensibilities, revealing amorously
Silken ruby lips sparkling on work of beauty
Embellishing tiny dimples upon rosy cheeks;
Oh! the mystical you, loving you is euphoric.

Unannounced you titillate my life’s revelry
Mellifluous alike spring’s...

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Old Mr. Nicholson
totters across the town square
to the barbershop where
Clive has cut his hair
for the last forty years or so

Not hardly needing
even a trim
but pretending
he has a reason besides
the gossip waiting within

Inside, the shop smells like hair tonic
shaving cream and old leather
and the only noticeable...

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Quaint town, orange sky and spitting roosters,
a trail of mosaic remembrances translates
into lavender hints of folks’ spiraled notes:
women balancing baskets of corn
strewn on the hips, a siege of  fluted weeds
meshing  with tropical winds along the lake...

being there, just there among ruined cathedrals
and flared...

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I asked a scientist to make an olive's leaf,
So green with its juices,
Smelling spring and sweat from gatherers hands.
He answered that he couldn't.
I asked him to make the light of the sun,
Reflecting its warmth in morning's appearance.
To make a sun enslavor of the sea,
Of breathing...

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TINA'S BIRTHDAY.

I am so excited,my little hands prepare,
For a party magical,unique that will be rare.

Its my dearest friend Tina's birthday,
A pixie cutest and tiniest of today.

Sunshine amiably reflects a smile like a pogo baby,
Daisies,lilies,roses in  my garden get flowy.

Flowers wear makeup for Tina's bouquet,
Devoted...

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I’m lodged in this train on a top spot
yet alone...while others trace a  blue noon amiably,
As  dewed  mist  holds me immovable
From my row ... the  toot  of a loud whistle
makes me want to peep out restlessly.

This journey is intermittent...

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The woodland's sights and scents add a piquancy to the affair

By the moonlight's inky, starry gaze, so fleeting to retain

To dawn's fragile light shadows benignly filtering through

The damp, earthy undergrowth a mossy bed convenient

An ample, rough bark, redwood tree and gnarled, dry spreading roots.

A humble...

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I watched the “news” this morning.
Chicken Little ran around squawking
Two women talked amiably after describing
scenes of horrific violence.
A homeless puppy was found
cared for and now needs a “forever” home.
Thousands called in looking to adopt it.
A homeless veteran was stepped over
in the entrance to a shelter
he/she...

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COFFEE IN A CAFÉ CALLED CONTENTEDNESS

He’s content…….
Yet uniquely unrepentant 
He’s content with his surroundings
Content to do that which he must…….
With trust

Content, 
occasionally, 
to do something he actually enjoys
With poise
I suppose ninety-six years tempers one’s desire and demand for delight……..

Ninety-six years is midnight……….
Come what might

He’s content...

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Minutes in, days out, I would succumb
To an electric wave of heat:  this once
Tidy dress lined in cotton and quilt now appears
Scratched like a hand-me-down cloth;
My  upper ribs  tossed into a furnace
While the sizzling smoke chokes this neck…
Yet, Milady is not done...

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Almighty God* I adore
Author of faith, approved by Your atonement
Accept my acknowledgment and admiration of Your anointing.

Awed by and adorned with Your advice
Abiding am I in Your avouching assurance 
Apprehended against abominations, arrayed with holiness’ attire.

Away from adversary’s affliction
Alertly, I advance toward Your accommodating arms...

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I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. 

So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reasonably good health, I balked at first but then...

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