Best Garners Poems

Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice President from 2009 to 2017,
and in the United States Senate
from 1973 until 2009.

The nation teeters on the brink...

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My mortality,
I once deemed far away
For I was young and strapping
But winds of time cause thinking to sway
Bringing thoughts to bear of my eternal napping.
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Brother Larry,

When young, mortality,
Scarcely garners many passing thoughts,
But winds of time metamorphoses our thoughts
From what was, and is, into what...

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My skin prickles, hair on my arm
flag-raised.
Quite peculiar, actually, someone
or something, is watching me.

I recalculate my senses, dusting off
pre-conceived notions of paranoia.

Across the room, a dull thud garners
my attention. Searching, I discover a
doorstop has simply tipped over, quite
impossible, I conjecture!

I pick it up and feel...

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Swift bee, the gilded messenger of bliss,
    Begirt with golden stars of Heaven’s span,
What draws you to the clover’s gentle kiss?
    Sweet nectars, that the strongest drinker can
    Carouse with dreams and dizzy waves of sleep,
...

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Villanelle: Stringent laws only serve to constrict the heart to hate
                   
     For all Eric Garners who went down breathless

Stringent laws only serve...

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The honeybee; the maid of flowers:
Selflessly she toils for hours,
filling up her pollen stores---
never grumbling at her chores.

Sips of nectar keep her strong
as she labors all day long,
pollinating field and arbor,
and making honey in her larder.

Humble as her kind may be,
their loss would be a...

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PASSION UNFETTERED

There is a force within a few that stands aloof,  
Jealously gazing at the eyes of lovers brimming with expectation,
But something stays frozen-- in disjointed time, 
Afraid if the precocity of love is brilliantly returned.
The truly beloved err,
Like a force of nature
 ...

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On a moonlit rendezvous,
feelings merge and interlace.
And like a creamy toffee,
sweethearts meld as they embrace.

Love garners sweet candied dreams
from reality's mirage.
And hungry, compliant lips,
share a gummy bear massage.

Sweet, sugar-coated wishes
morph into chocolate hearts.
And make peppermint kisses,
scrumptious as honey-dipped tarts.

A confectionery treat,
love is something you treasure.
For...

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(A reply to “The phenomenal woman” by Abul Mayen, “Hope John”)

This breezy morning
I have caught the right worm
Basking on a rock like a lizard
She twirled her waist in her briskly walk
A mile ahead of mature beauty
The in-made beauty perfumed with humanity
I smelled it perfumed---she was...

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Think about this
That this globe may soon provide
For eight billion people
And yet has struggled like a tide
To find some shore arable
Enough to unsalt a trees root.
Over all the years
When we were but millions, truth
Was we lived on edge of fears
That we would starve to death
Unless...

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Poems from the heart I encounter with blissful delight
Offering vicarious insights in this welcoming global poetry site
Exposing myriad realities expressed in artistic might 
Taking my empathy prowess to the next level of sensitivity-height
Reviving my poetic soul to express what’s right in the light 
Yes, I’m...

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In times of transition, as we walk a tightrope of hopelessness, the shadow comes to claim us.
The shadow descends, reminding us that there is no way out of the endless darkness.
The shadow screams at the top of its lungs, “there is no hope my child.
Your...

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Transfixed by the thunderstorm of raining thorns
I taste the violet vapor that rises as smooth spirit
while my sensitive gaze garners generations of grief, 
for those that follow the Savior must suffer like the Savior
and so they shall, feel the iron of violent institutions
their sacrifice will...

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Boys or girls matters not
Birth is a divine gift.
Blissful in every way,
Blessed by their parent's love,
Breast fed garners good health.
Beaming faces bless us...
Bringing us happiness.


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Where Green Forests Wrap Desirous Land

Across the midnight divide in a shroud,
this soul sails upon glistening gold wings.
There with vanity and what pride allowed,
my seeking heart wanders along and sings.

Beneath snow covered summit my joy shouts
where green forests wrap the desirous land.
To find me, hire...

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