Best Armfuls Poems

On that fateful day in August arriving late, so unusual for me
For I am always early; did I know deep down what the verdict would be
As soon as I walked through that door, the neurologist told me my fate
I had Parkinson’s she said; a degenerative...

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You brought armfuls of dream
Want to parse the stream
They say you are made of cream
Bright and leading my tongue scream

What else was so sweet
This is your cross street
Always stand on its own feet
No matter how much the clock beat

Uncultured and out of control cars
Foolish drive...

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Off us two went, beneath the trees,
that crackled and snappled
in Autumn’s crisp breeze,
our wellies slish-sloshing through the pelting rain,
plip-plopping, plip-plopping
again and again.

The thunder it rumbled,
and the wind it blew
but on and on,
the adventurers, two,
rustled through leaves
till we came to a tree,
and the treasure it threw...

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Scorned coquette
perched so solemnly
upon your death stool,
claw deep the fresh flesh of victors
bearing armfuls of decaying flowers
stolen from your mother’s grave.

A diverse parade -
clairvoyants and gigolos
tyrants and schizophrenics
junkies and Jesus freaks;
you seem to attract
an unending assembly line
of tarnished beggars
you’ve at one time
longingly called 
“lover.” 

Tainted...

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MEADOW GIRL



She is my bluebell meadow
Want to gather her up in armfuls
But not to spoil her delicate composition...

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TWO   KIDS   REMEMBERING


There we were

Next to the railtracks in the middle of the industrial heartland of 1950s Tyneside

Martin and me 

Summer’s day and no money and no place to go except the drab streets and projects

Just exploring carelessly

Among the  factories,...

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ALONG THE ROAD OF LIFE  I  CARRY WITH ME  MEMORIES


Recollected childhood trips seem an intensely hot affair.
We took a bus, tight-filled with sweaty people’s feet
For hours;  but then at the end,  there was  air.	
And gone were the constriction and...

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...the way flight begins in the heart
                               Martin Steingesser


 Stopping by the side of the...

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They taught us what to do if there's a bomb.
A big bomb.
A bomb they removed in a biopsy on a God
A big God
Scooped it out in armfuls from the body of a God
My God the blood hanging on the tresses where the speshes operated they
Taught...

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A symphony of joy raced through the
Hospital hallway 

Mom in a wheelchair holding her first daughter Born after 2 boys!
Dad alongside grinning like he struck gold!

Driving home!

Just minutes from the hospital Dad 
Braked to a stop!
He spotted a wild dandelion patch shining bright!
Mom was in...

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Imagine me, a fish in the sea.
Such a sensitive soul with waves of compassion.
A water baby through and through.
Dreaming away while looking up at planets and stars.
I see Neptune ruling the skies in the dark.
A mystical spirit with armfuls of feelings,
always standing up for what...

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B ecoming attuned to autumn.
E venings no longer taking a stretch.
A ware of a darker veil at morning.
U shered in by autumn's breath.
T he low light at evening is softer.
I meander winding woodland paths.
F luttering leaves of beautiful browns
U nder footfall give us laughter as...

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Your love is like a swift sweet scent of hope
that fell quickly on an unsuspecting heart.
It’s a blessing, a shining brighter scope
with armfuls of devotion to impart.

2/13/18

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All the good in me unlaced I pull what I own across the floor,
books devoured to the spine, impressions the knees of my jeans
have made of kneeling, my ghosts of ghosts, the saint who is namesake.

I lay it out. A turtle can lay one hundred
thirty-seven...

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I must think fast. My house is on fire and I'll have 16 minutes at the most
to decide what I will save!

For sure, I will rescue the computer, or the flash drive at the very least.That is number one, for this represents a great number...

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