Best Betide Poems

Woe Betide The Forgetful…
Though the body be weary and tired,
the soul burns with everlasting energy.
To where we have come,
much farther remains to go.

The Moses exodus;
Noah’s unchartered course;
pale the journey ahead.

Crisscrossing Middle Passage streams
put Bermuda Triangle to shame.
To hell and back carries much pain.

In the crosswinds...

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Be wary of the ebb of tide
that strands your woes,
bone-dry up on the high dry side.
See how the winds of sorrow do blow.
Right over the mud flats of despair they go.
Desiccating all remnants of life,
that the flooding tide brought in.
Leaving only a trickle of fickle...

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