Best Downplay Poems

-For Melissa

She asked me how long does it take to heal
In what time allotment, exactly, will it take
For forgetfulness to become a reoccurrence
A blessing for the haunted
Memories that can be bleached off 
White sundresses put on in order to frolic
On beaches with waves washing away
Each...

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With imperfection, introspection 
And a measure of over arching dejection 
Comes insight
So I've noted a truth or two
Do get comfortable and I'll share a few

Say you're dancing, having fun
And some sideline sneerer mocks
Forget them, they matter not
They aren't the one that rocks

Rushing about, making life...

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I see a day when mankind will say
   Let us our differences downplay
when the wolf will lie down with the lamb --
   Hearken to the shofar blast of the horn of the ram

I see a day when every husband and wife...

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Slay poor men’s dreams lest hopeful themes gain sway -
     make up self-serving laws to flaw their take.
Fray each mashed man’s reach with sharp wished decay -
     break all freewill just for overkill’s sake. 
Downplay pained lives...

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Both Sides Now

Billowing clouds up above
Sometimes smoky or just dust
Bluebirds maneuvering through
While Butterflies withdrew

All my past loves float away 
As in vapored clouds today
Becoming concealed by the moon
Only returning in afternoon

  Consequently standing here
  Between the earth and atmosphere
  Taken from my...

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My love is light (a fairy kiss?)          
               Like the pressure of sunbeams on your cheek, 
     ...

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UNBREAKABLE 

I don’t mean indestructible or incorruptible
Something smashed to bits that CAN be fixed
As in unbreak my heart
It’s a quality absent in my situation
I can never go home again
This just leaves making a new start
Carte blanche to reinvent
Being sent to prison is not a blessing
In...

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~  Jesus  Christ  Is   Lord  ~
 (  Nonet  )




~O~
 


My  Holy  Bible  is  true  and  right. 

Tells  me  what God  wants  me  to  know. 

God...

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It's another Monday
One seventh of your life
It's the second month of the year
at least six to go before you can earn it all
(Or most of it)
On the seventh day God rested
Hopefully He hasn't since
I wish He'd rested on the sixth too
(We'd have weekends off)
You can...

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If your soul could sing, what song would you hear?
A lifetime of living, yours to convey,
A melody of joy, or ballad of fear?

The notes of your life would be made very clear,
Emotions in words would be on display.
If your soul could sing, what song would...

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In the aftermath of any competition, be it sports or otherwise...
We will see a gamut of emotions in the mass of humanity in sight..

There will be riotous screams of joy and jubilation, laughter and smiles galore..
Fist pumps and high fives, happy faces all around at...

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>>1111>>REVELATION<<1111<<

                                            ...

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It draws me to think about Moses’ humility 
with his experience of the burning bush in Sinai,
like a place of discovery, so extraordinary!
that it’s burning and yet not consuming.

Being a leader to his own people of Israel,
his charism and fidelity to God he worships well,
reminds...

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I'm immobile by deafening chants of my fans.
Mounted on a grand stage draped in humiliation 
The arena is packed standing room only
Murmurs of insults produce a grievous boom echoes in my head
You, Me, Someone, Anyone Say Something!

Slashed to pieces by your taunts
Pummeled, pounded, and mauled...

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The boat slowly turned at an unmarked waterway,
   and foliage dropped behind us like a curtain of green;
   as we glided between vegetation thick as a screen,
everything was shades of green as civilization fell away.
Thoughts of my altruistic devotion was beginning...

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