Best Chastened Poems

Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

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I have been to places of great death:
walking the battlefield at Gettysburg,
as a lusty young man of no firm belief
who stepped between the great rocks
of...

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8.Reading

I see them all rise to an endless sky.
Tumbling burnt pages from raging fire,
To leave ash of closer, to pacify.
A single deep breath near flaming...

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Dreams Dancing A Dance Into Retreating Time

I hasten to see worrying worries flown
In abyss of chastening chastened fires,
For decades she held tight, loving love, her...

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You were loved once 
just because
but in defiance of your lot
perhaps inspite 
learned to dance, love again

Think it's hidden
in diamond's luster
or hereafter
not all the smiles...

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Tomorrow it will be your turn.
Your turn to be beaten.
To get bruised.
To bleed.
Because you are wrong. 
The wrong sex. 
The wrong color. 
Just wrong.
Tomorrow is...

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I think old lovers wish
Einstein correct
and Time not a thief
called Time;

A jester perhaps
that toys with our hearts
leaves Spring not a leaf
all youthful players aged
parts...

But nearer...

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SUMMER FALLS

April heralds Summers March
as she  leaves behind her warm glow
in blazing trail of red and orange hues

pursued by winds she trips and Falls
chastened...

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It's been written before and quoted more
"Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder"
Born in London to American parents
Her beauty, would come to make, men...

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Why can't I do it how I want to do it?
Been told my rhymes are sophomoric - at best
I may violate pentameter but I write...

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While Shepherds watched their flocks by night all seated on the ground
The ewes collected up their lambs and gathered them around
"Listen now," the old Ewe...

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Feather to feather on a branch, this early winter morning,
Are they planning outings for the day or of grave dangers warning?

A predator comes swooping by,...

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Perhaps love is a quiet crimson fire
That burns the soul silently ever deep
The glorious waves that fuel its desire,
is never chastened by its unwanted sleep
As...

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Unheeded in the spread of his name, quaking
   Through the knit brow cuddling the sombre eye
Twice buckled into the couch of his yearning

The...

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It was not uncommon to discover a missing Brother Legionary
castrated, and decapitated
with a headless eagle carved upon his chest,
don't speak to me of morals and...

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