Best Extending Poems

Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...

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"In my fragile little ship, I sail, sail
In the tempestuous sea of life
Dodging life's pressures, to doldrums outlast"~ by poet

Breathing in and out the notes...

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Aloha Spirit

Sol, with his golden crown, greets me each morning
within divine rays extending out over emerald hills
and valleys that absorb his warmth of abiding light.

View...

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Along a fence and out into a field I amble;
seduced by a tree surrounded by flowers, I stroll toward a small hill.

Gentle is this grassy...

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WHAT IF LOVE

If true love was like the flowers
Just needing rain to bloom and grow
The pleasure of Spring showers
Would bring us bliss to treasure so
But...

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I see the shimmers of your light, Lord. 
My life unfolds to one body 
Becoming the air that runs across the golden fields. 
The wet...

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the injustice of
the powder blue box
standing proudly
on the corner of
fifty-seventh and fifth

A symbol of division
extending the partition
between wealth and
everyone else

back around the way
the old shabby
half...

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There is the Christ
of a minister's coffer

a Christ of the theater's
show-time

a Christ bought and sold~
the merchant's patron saint

Then, there is the Christ of 
the heart...

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I left the past, in all its fullness, thinking, surely life isn’t complete.
     Next came the present, a flower in full...

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The Franklin Mountains are a succession of jagged peaks, as if the earth had sprouted the spiny backbone of a monstrous, petrified beast. Each tip...

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Written: May 05, 2024

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When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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Black kid with malice as my main 
enemy
Spending time wondering: 
How in the hell did this get into me?
With tendency to be rude
Extending my attitude
Pretending...

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      "Intense Interlude"




in sweet magical moment
deep mesmerizing gaze
kidnapped his heart, in Time,
extending fragrant flowers
she smiled, through haunting hazel eyes
in translucent...

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USE ALL OF ME


Father God,
Kindly use all of me today...
Again, I say to You God---
 use all of me today.

I am no preacher God 
but...

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