Best Forestalls Poems

...POTW 28 January 2018

Prologue:
A beautiful extra-terrestrial female researcher is sent down to a remote island to observe earth and beam her findings back to her planet. ......

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...The sun is the sun
It rises we run
When it turns the nighttime to day
It's hot when it's cold
And never grows old
As our time slips quickly away 
The sun remains the sun

The wind is the wind......

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...The scholars say man is innately good.
He just needs training to do what he should.
Education will his nature improve,
and most of his imperfections remove.

God is not needed to help man break ......

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...Dedicated to: Myself and the kindred spirits

Rise up today so gracefully and comely. Let not the present by the past be spoiled. You are entitled to what is best in the new day; do not let it wasted......

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...Storm rages brimestones   from ages to ages.
    The earth quakes from its foundation,flakes of hell erupts from the depths beneath.
   Seed of discord blossom
  In the very cord of the society as......

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The darkness comes in bleeding sorrow when Autumn calls
and summer’s dying light fades to cold, shadow filled dusk,
as the quiet stillness of the invading night falls,
once again, ......

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Autumn's Wink at Winter

Stares at the ......

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...Between the witching hour and saffron dawn,
When guileless hearts are peacefully asleep,
An evil prowls a wolf amidst the sheep,
With fangs as bloody daggers swithly drawn;

And erelong the warm......

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...It's always been there.  You know.  That urge
To turn a thought into a material thing
Express yourself as your hand is willed
Imagination, poured upon a page

I kid myself that lack of time forestall......

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...Lamenting Blossom

Shed not tears of grief.
Light forestalls your requiem.
Glorifying life.

© Dane Smith-Johnsen
April 18, 2010......

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...Bizarre the moves of scary fest,
Creepy moon glow in harvest fields;
Halloween comes with trick or treat,
The crazy stir of magic laughter;
Strange happenings that loiter here,
Parade of ghouls ......

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...LIFE AS A TREE

A tree stays rooted in the same place, 
its shadow forestalls the passing of time
It takes what's needed from the earth
and explores existence as a tree. 

What secrets ......

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...Twilight gleams as its last, satiating stream falls
Malingering shadows cast their tepid tent over the sun's fiery cauls
Shadows recede; an eerie awning o'er earth's tenants slowly crawls
Darkness......

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                                    Light that Lights All Lights

                                In the dim darkness of the night
                        When the moon is draped with grey clo......

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...Asinine alcohol alters me into a paper sniper
Ready to bounce and pounce on any challenger
Who dares to dance his lance in the path of my pied piper 
Primed to civilize and sanitise viewpoints of ......

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