Best Encroaching Poems

Wisteria winding along its trunk,
weaving a way to the sun —
squinting with anticipation.

The tree wrapped tight —
squeezed with a wisteria boa.
His only escape is to embrace the sun.

Onlookers comment at the beauty of
his arthritic knuckles and knotty trunk.

The ancient tree barely breathes,
as gathering kith and...

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I feel
the encroaching
necrosis settling in,
as the shadows finger their way
toward the growing twilight, etching my mind,
endless scratching with no escape!
It’s closing in on me,
this demon heart
I feel!


10/31/2017...

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latched to hope
she patiently waits 
for his love and warmth…
chilly night 
approaches

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© Paul Callus ~ 4th February 2017...

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Sea of blue drifts to a balmier port of call
Last satiating beams from soaring canopy sprawl
From distant, seamless divide swarthy portents fall 
Nearer, a blood orange ridge ballasts spiralling ball
A mercurial prism swaggers on horizon as flittering shades draw
Satin clouds now tinged with streaks of gray...

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Throughout the land, in every home,
Thanksgiving is approaching 
But this time other issues
Sadly seem to be encroaching.

To those outside the bubble
There’ll be faces framed on Zoom
And all will then pretend 
That they’re together in the room.

Some gatherings will be outdoors
With heaters put together
To stave off...

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Old world monkeys, the macaques, they are glad to be alive
Once upon a time they would have lived to be twenty-five
Unfortunately, there are only a thousand left today.
They eat fruits, seeds and nuts, and they are never in the way.
But the trees are being cut...

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The BELLS * * *

Resonating
Along that weaving of our days
Past the encroaching darkness
And its wishes to spoil, to wilt
Whatever good it touches; and
How it recedes
With the ringing of the bells
Of Faith: music declaring
Our most Holy Lord’s power;
Calling out his children, loyal
In the fight for Good.

The...

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Mountain Gorillas are listed as, endangered
They are found in the Republic of Congo, Uganda and Rwanda 
and their habitat is, high forest mountains, to 13,000 feet of elevations
surviving with thick fur, as temperatures can drop below freezing

Unfortunately, they can die from catching, a human disease
because...

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Psalm.  Lord, Keep Us!


I could sink, and languish sunken,
But Christ will not let me lie in broken days.
I am pulled up from the longest moments
And the trials of pain.
Selah.  Breathe.

I declare.  Since youth I have pronounced
That there is Nothing
That I will allow...

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There is a place beyond the night
Where vision does not pierce,
Where lies the look of muddlement
That shackles without force.

I’ve spent some time in looking
For a blur I will not see,
Yet lingers on the morning’s dawn -
There veiled by glimmered sea.

Will I see the fog encroaching,
Or...

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