Best Encounters Poems

Some people are just uncomfortable
She is putting on a smile
under her mask
I don’t know if it’s her
or it’s me
She’s nice, a little hurried
Even her son’s spirit
seems lost to the horizon
They are no strangers

Some people hurry
and still
make me feel safe
mask or no mask

There is a message
tucked...

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There are times, awkward 
Moments when I question my own feelings
My ideas, thoughts, beliefs
The way I have been directed and the 
Way I have lived

There are times, difficult
Moments when I don’t know the answers
My theories, contemplations, hopes
The memories that have given me promises
Of the light...

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When gusty winds blow, riling my troubled dawn in gelid woes
Squall of my throes dissipates in scented whiffs of budding rose.

As brazen fog shrouds mind, heightening my grief, poking fun 
Defyingly I step out in glinting rays of the dawning golden sun.

Refusing to surrender when...

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Wild Indigo...
Color of my third eye
Elevates my soul
To universal realms 
Of blissful peace.

July 3, 2017

Baptisia Australis or Wild Indigo:
Has a mild toxin that makes them unpalatable to cattle. The Wild Indigo Duskywing is an insect that likes the flower because the flowers have a mild...

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"How do you ease yourself?"
An older man once asked me
in a hotel lobby.
A strange thing to ask a teenager.
Later, on the Thames,
Douglas (a celebrated artistic failure),
drunk-kissed me on the lips.
He was sweeter
than the girl, I came aboard with.
The skinny lodger upstairs
dropped his pants in front...

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My father passed on nearly ten years before I got married. He was not present for my college graduation, nor was he alive when I finished high school.
My youngest sibling was nine months old. There was a period of grief at his passing, but then...

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Tornadoes blizzards
thunderstorms and hurricanes.
Clouds with attitude!...

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Hot
Sweaty, sultry
Yearning, tempting, loving
Emotions, desires, push, hate
Freezing, chilling, turning
Icy, frigid
Cold...

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In the aftermath of birth to my last child, a procedure was

                performed the next day, intense breathing, anxiety  and

         ...

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Ghost hiding in the 
House, Playing tricks and making noise
On the 
Staircase walking  up and down, activating them, 
Toys.
Laughing crying, screaming 
Yelling, knocking on the doors.

Evil and good, dark and light shining on the floors.
Never knowing what to expect on
Countless endless nights,
On the water...

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Buddleia's blossom
indigo butterflies mate -

intrude passions hold...

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laughter breaks silence
   coloring worlds in kindness
      lingering on lips? a kiss

      breathing dreams awake
   will love like this ever fade?
joy lights up the dance of life





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In the corner of my left eye
The full moon
In the corner of my right eye
Someone familiar

On front of me 
The pavement, a concrete conveyor belt
Confusion of the city obscures
Annoyingly 

In a blink the moon and the someone familiar
Disappear behind things

Other thoughts are conveyed to me
I...

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I jumped on my bike as fast as i could
but not fast enough, it did me no good

The bully kid was big and mean and acted very tough
laughing all the while he quickly knocked me on my duff

Rubbing grass in my mouth, slapping me in...

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shall we dance...

the old dance of romance
between two lost souls 
who have met by chance...

cool words, and quick wits
hide broken hearts, and loneliness...

fear the others intentions
test for damage prevention...

body language of meekness
eyes telling our secrets...

shall we dance
shall we dance
shall we dance...

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