Best Bresee Poems

I paused today
Put cares away
And finally let
The moment stay

Saw feathered skies
Through children’s eyes
Let time stand still
And realized

This life of gain
And gathering in
Pursuits of gold
Desires to win

They offer not
But jaded dust
Doomed to decay
By moth and rust

And time cares not
Nor pardon grants
For foolish charge
Or circumstance

But slowly slips
As...

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Describe the way life was meant to be

Cuz every day just melts away

To anything

 

It’s been a while since I think I’ve seen

The way I saw before the flaw

I’ve come to be

 

Another cloud, another Christmas tree

Another chance gone by, another teardrop cry

For anything

 

And...

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What lies beneath a sea of numb
Where ships of heart were taken down
Sunk to the bottom with the one
I hated and I meant to drown

For in its hull it carried pain
Instead of what its purpose was
And thus I had immense disdain
Because it never carried love

So...

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Dim lit, damp and distant corner

Torn from dream of vapor’s fold

Slow descent to worlds divided

Nothing hot and nothing cold

 

Long ago, this soul forgotten

Cast off in the ides of youth

Un-forgiven deeds left hiding

Neath the stones of burden’s proof

 

Wait to see if fate redeems her

Wait...

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A life sustained by water pure
Yet marred by memory of the wine
Like fragrant waft of soft allure
Diminished not by hands of time

Forever clear the water streams
Yet never ends the draw to wine
Forever helpless so all seems
To purge the memory from my mind

Though water's healing -...

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I can’t stand another year of this
With the sales that start after summer’s bliss

And the songs that play round the clock each day
And the cock-eyed ice and snow

And the ho ho ho’s and the ringing bells
And the wasted time; makes me mad as hell

And crowds...

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So tired of fighting
Don’t feel like writing
Here in the cold of the night
As I sit here and sit 
With my head full of ****
That comes pouring straight out of my life
Like a weight full off lead
Would be better of dead
Cuz the cycle would finally end
No...

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For the calm of new fallen snow lies in silent peace and stillness
Gently covering the loneliness of midnight city streets

And walking in the cold of night, I pause to stop and wonder
How can it be so unaware of where it present lies?
Has it not seen...

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Each moment creeps
Slowly
And quietly upon you

Drifting in continuum
One by one
In unbroken chain

From within the infinite
Depths
Of circular time

And across
The velvet black of space
And existence

Until at long last
It presents itself before you

The soul whom
For which it was destine made

And then
As if a drop in
The ocean’s great expanse

Makes...

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It seems so very long ago and yet like yesterday
We stood as one and made the vow to love and to obey

Then sealed this vow as things are done ‘until at death we part’
And at the time it never crossed my mind or found my...

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Midst fear and doubt 
When prayers have ceased
Unannounced 
Without a sound
Returns the clouds
And falls the rain
Again on barren ground


…Jeff Bresee...

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It’s different now
All the world around
Grey, yet cool in the shadow
Void of sound, yet quiet
Reliable
Predictable
Sure
Yes, things are different
On the day after
You give up on your dreams
 
…Jeff Bresee...

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Inside I cry
Neath sinking eyes
Against the wind
I feel that I
Am all alone
Am all alone
Am all alone…
Goodbye

…Jeff Bresee...

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Run…
As fast as you can
Red shades of dismal
Flowing fear
Melt to the glass of sand

Hide…
In the hollow hidden dry
Drink down the spell 
Of earth and hell
Indifferent to the sky

Lie…
Forever un-seamed
Face down amidst 
The death of sound
Black holes of melody

Sleep…
To the blood of setting sun
From spiral dreams
Look...

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"Write me a poem", she once said from her chair
And tell the dark secret that lies under there
 
Dig it up from the deepest and blackest of holes
Tell in poetry what you’ve not told to a soul
 
Write your way through the layers of cover...

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