Best Foothold Poems

A nook in the corner, off to the right..
A haven, housing a hundred homes.
To there, where wakened dreams do hide, 
My wandering mind so often...

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The pro-Hanoi Vietcong many years ago
In the 1950's Diem's government they'd overthrow
All opposition was crushed killed or jailed
These elected ones to their people they failed

This...

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The world's grey. Slowly, methodically,
Feathers from colorful birds have been burned.
Sheep in a fog on a snowy mountain.
One man thought uniformity equaled
Superiority, ugly furor.
Their ashes...

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Traces
In the wet sand
Footprints of gulls, and man
Disappear in the tidal dance
Of waves.

Traces
In the red dust
Feet of man, and horses
Up in canyons, leave no trace...

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Five thousand two hundred 
eighty feet 
between our first hello
and last goodbye 
Love seems to sprint 
the way light flickers 
from a firefly's particulars.
Marathon matrimony 
Run one race
with me 
let's...

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Entering the dark side of a moonbeam is always very risky
since the cold and howling bitterness of the night escapes,
as a moaning, devilish agony of...

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Entering the Dark Side of a Moonbeam
 
Entering the dark side of a moonbeam is always very risky
since the cold and howling bitterness of the...

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S  S  S  S  S  S S  S  S         Surely...

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The fulgent grace of your soul dazzles.
A tenuous foothold of a fragile love.
How could you love me so ardently?
Consider me treacherous and dreary.
A fierce fire...

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toes in the sunshine 
    happy to see their shadow 
        spring has a foothold...

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Entering the dark side of a moonbeam is always very risky
since the cold and howling bitterness of the night escapes,
as a moaning, devilish agony of...

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Is this the foothold you sought
  when love decayed and left you wanting?
Avenged in miniscule degrees, each vindicated
moment a trivial gilded victory...
The stars align...

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I'm spending vacation in my little room
didn't plan it that way
but my loves decided to not work with me
must be the post Xmas blues..
so, I'm...

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At long last, hibernal's fury begrudgingly concedes to spring tide. The fields, once blanketed by a mantle of white, now resemble no man's land, muddied...

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FREEDOM



This mass of land, created from the amalgamation of two  
Stood alone as the most eastern Caribbean island in view 
Embedded with coral and...

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