Best Girds Poems

This February will not usher spring,
wisteria like grapes hung on their roods;
more pewter shadows does the season bring.
Now I've misplaced all the beatitudes

to lambent grasses...

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I sit in upright chair feet firm on ground
Hands held in form of prayer as I intone
Phrase taken from the Psalms, without a sound
‘My soul,...

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rocky plain girds base
icy ramparts ballast slopes
frozen mantle crowns...

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What wild glee behind your tame grin lurks?
What shy sun fears to breach your heart’s horizon?
And to against your hidden teeth of 
Alabaster gleam. Bestowing...

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GIRL OF PARIS AT CHAMP DE MARS
Beneath the girds of steel, rising to the sky;
where tourists go to watch the world go by;
the children come...

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I tried to hold onto you but could not—
You slipped through my fingers as water will
When run through a sieve. And how like the plot
Of...

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You haven’t found among notable faces
Or even quotable phrases
Any bankable aces
Even as your appetite chases

Though the teaching remains taught
The pursuits remain unsought
For many hearts resist...

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I do hunger and yearn for the Almighty’s righteousness
To enjoy His offered relationship-graciousness
Only He can fill my soul’s grievous emptiness
Midst my heart’s need for total...

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I hear the words. In autumn's silent verse
lie anapestic wafts of falling leaves
with golden syllables both bright and terse,
the crimson pluck of summer as it...

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Not every woman’s dream 
 	of procreation 

can be fulfilled;

not every woman dreams
	of procreation, 

her body thrilled.

But loved and lovers’ inclinations – 
	recreation
not 	re-creation –...

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The man when born
and die,
In ruefully and
spiritless sigh,
And in middle of his
youth, he uproar,
Again and again
loath, with roar,
In this fiery
arrogant ways he
astonish,
His vitality and
humanity of...

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GIRL AT CHAMP DE MARS
Beneath the girds of steel, rising to the sky;
where tourists go to watch the world go by;
the children come to play,...

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God guides greatly
Governs gaze gently
Gears Gospel-gain gloriously…

God’s goodness
Generates giving graciousness
Gathering golden grain-grandness…

Guarding getting, gluttonous
Garrisoning greed-guilt, grievous
God girds grounded going, gorgeous…

Generously granting 
Garnished growth gravitating 
God...

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Gentle words from a tongue have a honeyed flavor
Utterances... "from the mouth of the wise bring favor
But the lips of the stupid one will be...

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Lamentations of a proletariat 

Loaded to the brim, withouted in a pack of "obersver-non participants"
folded like a wrap, yet forced to lack in the ranks...

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