Best Envoys Poems

emerald envoys
endure chilling reception..
scarlet suffering...

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* For Carol Brown's Story Time Contest

Feathered serpent was more than an Aztec legend
Depicted in multihued native art
Sculptures, paintings adorned humid cities
Spiritual sketches messages impart

Quetzalcoatl,...

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There was once a king who decided that for him - beauty was silence. 

 He issued a decree that all sound was banished henceforth...

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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...

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Christmas!  The most loved time of the year!
Holiday magic: decorations and festive cheer,
Returning festivities of this late December day
Is a world-wide celebration of one,...

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We all wish to be called Alice
And fly into a land of true dreams.
We all feel like connecting to beyond
The lines our horizon speaks of
Against...

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Soul Consciousness


Is it the consciousness of the soul we seek?
Or the “conscious” mind in search of its “soul”.
For the soul resides in the eternal unconscious,

is...

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Breath of spring and fresh romances flown
Farther than where clouds their dew have wept! 
Hither sweep your hand upon all seeds unsown:
Reap the gold in...

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The concept of precious freedom
Was born in the bowels of heaven.
In the bondage the world offers;
Fear throughout our lives is woven.
God hates mental or physical...

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If a half-baked idea hits you 
And knocks you as hard as 
A lightning bolt,
That it feels like a megavolt,
Sit and for a while ponder,
And...

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Setting sunshine and wine                     ...

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The Conference at Mantua

Ah, what a scene of tranquil learnedness! 
The scholars nurse their tomes like babes in arms: 
white locks: heads cocked to savor...

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FAKE

mirrored alien
reflecting panics
plastic grin
repeating names
unnervingly with
with tainted fears
forging terror

ambiguity takes shape
scrambling shadows
hidebehind views
momentarily
then take plunge as
watered body
wavers

navigation sets sail
into freedoms vast
expanse
starting over
masking past
toward stars 
that...

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The traumas remain yet
by our picture married
by done if I keeping
stone me remanding
from the soul,
and am remember it 
and unless
a safer brief so envoys
revive my...

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Irony, often, enacts comically fatal roles,
Brings dignitaries down from their highest pedestal poles; 

Sometimes, in a symbolically pragmatic costume,
Of the protagonist, destruction its role does...

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