Best Disparaged Poems

"The body, like the oak, is bent and gnarled,
The shallow-rooted mind is overthrown,
When we are near the evening of the world."
---From, 'Runes for an Old Believer", by Rolfe Humphries

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My mind may not be now
as nimble as once it was,
and although I...

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A decade and two,
He has persevered and toiled,
Basic needs unmet.



April 16, 2022....

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  Got married
    settled down
  Bought a house
    heart o’ town

  Three kids later
    left my job
  Wife lost faith
    ceaseless sobs

  Bitter divorce
   ...

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SEPARATED SPIRIT FROM THE MOUND OF DIRT AND CLAY---


As I walk across the silver sands, winds;
Blows throughout my daughterly brazen hair;
Whisk away seldom the sun dims, its grin;
Shining brightly those grinning light shines there;

Kicks the pebbles corner stone’s made of gold;
Harboring the renaissance of stories...

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