Best Displeases Poems

Author Dana Redricks
July 18, 2019

People don't show their appreciation and quick to point out our flaws. I often think of God and what he must...

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BETRAYAL - FICKLE DEATH'S SICKLE 


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Dear God, my love for you flickers in wavering shadows,
Caught between the whispers of evening prayers
And the intoxicating allure of liquor’s path.
I am well aware...

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On the extremity of  a tall bank 
Of big broken stones in round circle done
We reached up a more cruel clutter flank;

And there, for...

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Ode to the Cockatiel

You exasperate me. 
The most maddening creature
To walk, 
Waveringly across the tabletop
Drawn by an invisible wire
To my bowl
You stand
On the tips of...

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Jesus: 
I stand at the door of the New Year, longing to come in
to inner sanctum of your heart that I may live within

Me:
Do not...

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I’m not sure what’s happening in this country…sometimes I think it’s being overrun by fools…in some states they’re banning books…in my state, Florida, they’re banning...

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Although aging may not be a present thing to experience
it is a great blessing. No matter how hard he tries to understand 
old age, the...

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zilch = the current net result dabbling with said medium
which upside per literary skill 
   allows, enables and provides
a golden opportunity 
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1.Seeds of desire cause
all-beings ever suffer.
2.Desire, free from birth
desire less solution creates.
3.Desirelessness, above wealthy, any
wealth unequals that.
4.Pure; desireless, truthfulness yields
pure in heart. 
5.Desireless, suffers not...

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Schooled in hard knock sufferance... -
soulful scribe matt er fact - seeks solemn sanctuary

Despite always pledging
allegiance to the flag
academic performance traced, narrated,
graphed... unfavorable zigzag

vertical lined...

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brings world word ii gunnery duty 
   as extremely frightful flashback
   which utterly displeases this elderly mortal 
   and...

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Father I have done so many things that displeases you.
I have said things that made me appear so brand new
But my heart still remains humble...

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No hiding place for me in your face;
As the mountain cannot be hidden so do I.
Standing on the  face;  more  beauties were...

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8/18/21


This place is no 'Garden of Eden!'
For now heart still beatin'
Yet bleedin'
Struggling to find the meanin'
And to make the best of 'freedom'
For many seasons
Battling with...

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