Best Befalls Poems

Looking through the bookshelves, a homemade book, he chose 
Found trapped within the pages he came upon a faded red rose 

Flatten down with care now faded in colour, more so in its scent 
Memories such of a time, so long ago that to himself...

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A squad of cavalries turns up at first
their flag flutters at every angle
proud and their poor fate stubbornly reversed
the youngest one of them blows the bugle

Next, day strips itself of night, boisterous
the survivors step over the fallen
to the summit, wounded but victorious
the bravest one sags...

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Dusk
Creeps in 
Dark and sleek
Day is once more
Night...

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Tapping fingers, pulse ~
The awaiting, ones sweating 
Anticipating ~
Message received, codes now read
Slowly keys turn, silo's open ~










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scared, alone
broke down on dark highway
creepy willows, hover over me
waiting for a sign of headlights
but to no avail-none
i debate to walk
slowly creeping through woods
fog thicker than lard
water gushing in open-toed shoes
till i see a dim light
wooded cabin tucked away
shadowed by redwoods
i knock-no answer
i enter cautiously
sit...

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What Befalls At A Brook

Delight I, midst a babbling brook,
Touching its banks, hugging its rocks,
The child in me that I mistook,
Stills on, hearing to water talks.

Ere am awash toward concord,
Delight I, midst a babbling brook,
Be at its whim a righteous chord,
Smoothly drifting a dream unhook.

Sail...

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Although it's been several years since we drifted apart
I still dream of you for you hold a place in my heart.
In the zenith of the full moon's glow late last night,
I dreamt of you, my lost loved one as you took flight
on a journey, but...

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