Best Encampments Poems

Historically accurate, narrative poem

27 November 1868, on the banks of the Washita River  

Dawn’s peaceful first light streaks the eastern skies, 
belying the horror of a marauding force of horses and men,
silently stealing over new fallen snow preparing 
to deliver a fateful blow to...

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We are wanderers 
who happened at the intersection of reality and dreams
seeking others to share comfort with
from life's drudgery of encampments and caves

Now everyone lives in a box with a door
surrounded by a box held by posts
contained by concrete pavement shaped like boxes
giving direction to...

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February 9 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 24-25

Key Verse – Leviticus 24:4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.

FAITH IN GOD WHO LIGHTS OUR LAMPS CONTINUALLY	

God lights our lamps continually as we obey His commandments…
So privileged...

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Sire she's been sighted
two miles south of Sinai,
our sentinels say she has brought a river,
her baggage train stretches into the ancient sands,
the envoys of her retinue spoke of marvelous gifts,
beasts and creatures of the Orient
gems that glitter like the eyes of children
summer baskets of gold...

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Blowing Off Steam
                     by Odin Roark

Being a little mad is essential,
Otherwise, existing might necessitate a strait jacket.

He wasn’t alone.

Sidewalks were strewn with them,
Whether under-the-bridge encampments,
Or...

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molten times, volcanising immensity, vast plateau
  belly-belching landform
  oceans, shallow seas and lakes swell up and down
  land-bridging, submerging
  any one place moving astride, stutter-shifting
  continental drifting world
  climate changes over faster beating rhythms
  cyclic seasons weathering

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Kids,
like adults,
who become ecologically active,
join in gardening,
urban, and suburban, and rural cooperative farming,
green environmental sciences,
school gardens as group art installations
and outdoor entertainment
and spirit/nature nondualistic humane-divine experience,
tend to be joiners and stayers,
sometimes annoying OpenSpace Occupiers

Who stray away
from competing subcultures
and millennially stray toward
green cooperatively-owned and
matriarchally co-managing climates
of...

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The Law

Science is merely the behavior exhibited from a relationship. Magic the same. Science comes from natural law, magic the supernatural. People have their feet
in both camps. That's why we need
an attorney and glue for lamps. To show that the badge of consciousness is a...

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From the unravelled and now exposed mystery 
Tales of leafy Nottinghamshire
And the dusty tatty books of  it's long history
Comes a tale 
You'd think it was just a jest
However, it is a fact and true
With hand upon heart and chest
I am telling you

Way back in...

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When the apostles of Jesus Christ, after his ascension into heaven, spread the doctrine
of Christianity throughout the ancient Roman empire.  Those who made their profits in
making pagan idols for worship accused the Apostle Paul and his followers of:

"These men who have caused trouble all...

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for only a day


once, so long ago,
we ran through plowed fields,
barely missing sharp glass fragments 
and jagged rocks
and never missing opportunities 
to laugh and stumble over one another

it was easy to hide from approaching cars
and imaginary pirates 
swinging galvanized swords

tears and blood were hidden in...

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It was called “Spy Rock” in my day
Said you could see for miles around
The encampments of Confederates
From this large rock on higher ground
When the men in grey invaded our land
Brawling, looting, burning, and pillaging,
Everything got completely out of hand.

One-hundred fifty and eight years ago,
Much blood...

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You say you care about people black and brown,
And victims of war in every Gazan town.
But I doubt your heart, here’s why I think it a trend,
For so many downtrodden you're no friend.

Slavery in the U.S., no one denies,
But 50 million slaves worldwide, can you...

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It's so precious 
This breath 
Those beats
These breasts 
That blood
All of the tissues 
Skincells
Organisms that these
Vessels of life are comprised of 
It's right here and undeniably present 
With each new death its a reminder
How delicate and temporary 
these soul encampments get
that we are Loaned 
The...

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Follow the red dirt road.
Take it slow, walk it,
this is not an exploration
nor a pilgrimage,
it is a short tour around
the beginning of an idea
and its end.

Move along
past the few rural homesteads,
pass beyond the shacks
and the weather-beaten
tumbledown cabins,
the double and single wide
not so mobile homes
with their...

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