Best Brambles Poems

Earthquakes
Hurricanes
Fire
Heart attacks
Cancer

Do the circumstances of your final breath
distress you?
All destinations lead to equal results,
infinite non-existence,
the permanent extinction of your unique soul.

Some lives are enshrined with granite headstones,
temporary monuments of polished absurdity.
Will virtue or vice be left behind?
These are superficial concepts
in this ruthless, mechanized universe.

I grant...

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Loves Brambles


Dare ye challenge love’s fine beneficence
its longing double edged sweep – parry, thrust
succumb to passion’s pure magnificence
ignore the warnings of self centered lust

Awaken to the pillows empty scent
wince at the searing cut of unfelt blade
recoil at softened thoughts of beauty spent
laid waste beneath the...

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One golden August day 
Walking along the narrow lane 

With ice cream pail in hand 
Over the lush woodsy land 

Looking for brambles of blackberries 
Thirsting for their sweet juice in my belly 

And nature's kindness does bestow 
Along the lane unhindered they grow 

Blackberries...

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Framed moments zoom, a night of review
as vignettes glide on frazzled woodland
     of her mindscape like leaves  brushed
 in violet before moonlight’s  pause.

Every motion, every image bursts
   into tints of  life- stages...
Embers within  her flash:...

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