Best Girded Poems

Clans, Ilks and Tartans

Woven into threads of red and black,
Girded by grids of white,
Distant plaintive bagpipe memories
Of sunset over Kilmaurs –
A crest that bears a...

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You look at me and see a northeast highway after winter
Cracked, worn, roughened by conditions not meant to be endured.
I was once the most beautiful...

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The amount of good and evil

Constant remains

Throughout space and time

There is

No more suffering than good fortune 

No more good fortune than suffering  

In the...

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On a broad street 'neath spreading sycamores sits a stately dwelling.
Its elegance and surrounding grounds are so very compelling.
Gracious gardens and towering pines enhance its...

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Fall the night upon me dark
Naked born this journey embark
Of friend or foe as yet unknown
Time will tell in deeds be shown

In shadow times when...

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John the Baptist in a camel hair "suit"
Girded with a leather belt to boot
On a steady diet of wild honey and locusts
It's a wonder he...

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Already was straight up the flame and steady
To speak no more, and yet away it went
Being the sweet poet to let it ready,

When another, which...

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PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not...

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"The Lord is risen!”*  
keeps on reverberating
as vibrant resurrection-shout 
for life-transformation
conquering old nature
vanquished by God’s salvation-might
toward empowered service
wrought by the Holy Spirit.

“The Lord is...

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the heat is on and the temperature feels like its hot as hell
the heat is on in every aspect of life in these turbulent times...

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Steel mountains tower over ancient minds
The mismatched soul anachronism  
Instincts progressively lagging behind 
Primitive brain sees a deep red cataclysm

Ghostly mastodons stalk the fluorescent...

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I gave my life for you, 
My grit was your prosperity, 
So that you could do. 

I swallowed at the task, 
Girded myself bravely, 
Prepared...

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In the midst of whatever has you bound up and under attack
The presence of God can break every chain for the Lord has your back
Be...

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The gates open at twilight
Gates for the strong lost at night

The keeper sees everyone that passes by
Through the gates of brass and willoughby

Tormented souls bereft...

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Love
If you were a work of fiction
I’ll call you Cupid
If you were to be a sign
I’ll cross my arms
If you were to be my date
I’ll...

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