Best Essentials Poems

Autumn red orange 
Tree leaves of unmatched colors 
In rustic canoes...

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Color in red and blue:
Not blue in purple—
Just the smell of red....

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“ESSENTIALS”

Cluttered contents exposed by an open cupboard door
Time once again the enemy—staring at the clock on the wall
Just two nights— in Paris- ‘luggage’ and ‘baggage’ to be kept small
Life becomes weighted with each passing day
Reflections on life—real ‘Essentials’ to pack on our way

SIMPLICITY—life is far...

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I believe in God’s power* midst lockdown
Since no disaster can shut His grace down.

In such state, I need foremost the Bible
Scriptures anchor my faith to be stable.

Medicines serve as great necessities
To combat blood pressure’s adversities.

Vitally important are documents
For social and financial engagements.

Hygiene kit plus sanitizer’s...

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If I am so non-essential why is it essential that I pay taxes??

John G. Lawless
©6/17/2022...

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ESSENTIALS

visual language
  with
explicit 
traces
   of  experience
eschews  
categorisation
   limited
only
 by number
of the
little
 &
  defunct
freedoms
 of a subliminal
 kind
so  strangely
familiar

 something 
of
an icon
in perspective 
in
manifested 
in
perhaps
unsurprisingly
 rare
& privileged
 light
&echoes
more focused
 with the same
passion
 & obsession
with imitation
 with
 & imagination
 beauty &rhythm
confronting
experience 
with
innocence
 transcending
potential


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique...

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To love God is loving yourself and all that's created. 
To understand God is to know what's fated.
God's creation is a mark of beauty
We are Gods creation who are called to duty

We are bound by God to serve
Some of us slide and sometimes swerve
God is...

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Prayer is the silence of the heart read alone by you
Faith is the patience of the soul that keeps love true
Truth is invisble to the eyes and found only in belief
Love is you in me, and myself given in all to others
Joy is knowing I...

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A phantom virus, tentacles open free
with perpetual license to kill and kill.
Sentenced to death on lonely beds, 
an imprisoned world standing still.

Fearful eyes over mask covered faces
plead to get back to the "normal" days.
All number graphs on TV news channels
are dearest names who've lost their...

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"essentials"
each time with you my breath is taken away
such wonder to see ivory open and free
splendor journeys beyond grass reaching golden sands
essential are you to my true existence
never is there a time I question your being
tides flow from the shore touching my soul
I inhale inch...

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Stars are my guide,
Love is my guard,
Faith will take me home,
Hope is by my side....

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What value do I place on love
or the olive branch of a dove
What treasured blessings come thereof
from God above    from God above

What esteem do I give to rain
the source of life it does sustain
nourishing fields of amber grain
in God's domain  ...

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water is almost free minimal taxes
drink celebrate and enjoy water your
cells will dance jump in glee
water is free like air minimal taxes
breathe long inhale hard hold and release
they can call whatever meditation praanayaama
doesnt matter just enjoy breathing aware
positivity is free like water and air not...

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Lacking definitions
for glasses without bottoms,
we call them telescopes
or megaphones.  But still
they crawl down our throats
like silver centipedes
because we close our mouths open
at just the right time
and we spit up poems.

So who cleans up
the order?  Leaving it there
long enough, it will go away
or like...

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Think not that you were not born so rich;		 
Your knowledge, you better try to enrich.		 
Think not that your complexion is not fair;
To compare it with others’ is rather unfair.
Mind not the place where you were born;
It is the one that you are bound...

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