Best Contented 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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Oh cripes I’ve gotta tell yer of a horror ride I had,
	That beat any bronc or bull I’ve rode, and I must say I’m glad,
	I’ll...

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I stand here with every step of my life etched in crisscross lines beneath these
well worn feet. 

Well worn feet that have carried me for...

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Harken...those hollowing drums
Over cold vales so beat,
Exhorting a multitude of glistening 
Star-tipped spears,
As marching over shattered landscapes
In shinning replete:
Crunch Artumes eternal legions
Across the snow bound...

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Our Bliss At It's Purest We Loved Each Others Naked Sight


When our love, its hottest and satisfying nights first begun
we each tried to give our...

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SONNET FOR THE LITTLE GIRL WITH NO DOLL

Above the brook blue Damsels flit in dance
And bring to mind that little girl who’d pass
Long solitary hours...

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And when the palm trees whisper,
                   ...

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When I first realized that I loved you
I became afraid, for I felt exposed,
surrounded by the broken-down fences
I had painstakingly built as protection 
for my...

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If you are lonely watch the birds 
In their freedom of flight--
Feel the warmth of the sun 
Kiss your cheeks and smile
Visit the shore and...

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In every heavenly sip of forbidden ambrosia lies a drop of  mortal poison
In every beautiful moment of unmasked laughter lies a trace of undissolved...

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Whispering to be heard                     ...

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(Inspired by Wordsworth's poem of the same title)

The stratus clouds that mingle hand in hand,
nor lacy cirrus feathers stretched on high,
can stay the gaze of...

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A bouquet of  WILD ROSES
I have received today
youth of colours
warmth of Summer
the nectar of the soul.

A bouquet of  WILD ROSES
I have received today
bounties...

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Thinking of your smile makes my day,
So inspired to write a poem of what I feel,
Can’t take you out of my mind my dear.
 
In...

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Mississippi Moments

History journeys along with its meandering flow as
a wide birth from bank to bank has eyes straining
trying to see across to the other side,...

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