Best Beset Poems

The skies were clear, a cloudless blue
   His heart beat red, his love was true
His hair was black, his thoughts pure white
   The moon was full, the time was right

Jed cleared his throat, no sound came out  
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Beset a clear moonlit night
Aloneness
Warm, comforting, like the slow rise of a sleeping child’s belly 
Between fence and dream, both showing signs of decay 
Shadows cast, embroidered in grass, of this generation and the next
There is no prettier landscape than one that is dying
The canvas...

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Don't fear
My children
The light is near
Is this present but a game's kid?
Feel gratitude not for what rain falls upon thy head
But because heavens keep us reign

Think feelings
Ovations of the breathing
Reappraised havoc,
Sore living;
Let their kingdom crumble--fallen
Uprightness of the muddled
Rising in pain--contemplation's following

Yet both as One
Loving, wholesome...

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The performances gone,
  all memory survives

A spirit most willing,
  whose body still tries

All motion much slower,
   directed regret

Intention unwavered,
—times ravage beset

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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Genetics,
our cruelest mistress
the herald’s phantom
In fated shadow
a birthmark staining
—our darkest pall

(Dreamsleep: March, 2022)...

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The performances gone,
just memory survives

A spirit most willing,
whose body still tries

All motion much slower,
directed regret

Intention unwavered
 —times ravage beset

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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