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Premium Member Great Divide
A great divide is here
Not, the Grand Canyon 
Or our weather from East to West
Or even North to South
But, it is the divide amongst our...

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Categories: great divide, encouraging, life,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member God and Man - the Great Divide
Compare the evidence of a real divide
so far apart are truly God and man
the comparisons are really traumatic
consider all that covers this great span

God is...

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Categories: great divide, god, humanity, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abbi of Bacabi
She left one day, her Kiowa village
And stood proudly in the sun
Beneath the Tabletop Mountains 
And walked among the golden sea
Of waving grass, fearless and...

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Categories: great divide, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Of the Life, the Great Loss, the Solemn Plea
Of The Life, The Great Loss, The Solemn Plea

Across the cold chasm of that great divide
were flung the salty tears I could not hide
and epic...

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Categories: great divide, art, fate, introspection, life,
Form: Romanticism
Compadre
We’ve shared the trail, kicked up some dust,
An’ stood a storm or two.
We’ve rode the plains, the wide frontier,
The easy trails were few.
You’ve listened like...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: great divide, animals, cowboy-western, death, friendship,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



The Last Gold Leaf
The last gold leaf hangs on the bough;
summer is just a memory now.
You, too, have gone, my golden friend;
our summer days came to an end.

We...

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Categories: great divide, absence, bereavement, death, farewell,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Seeker
Act 2, Scene 4.
The Salisbury plain. Within a henge, a watchfire burns. The Seer approaches The Seeker.

Take heed, my friend, our part in cosmic cheat
Plays...

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Categories: great divide, humanity, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Because
BECAUSE

You opened up my eyes,
They turned towards the skies,
Clouds higher than I’d ever seen
The grass so green.
BECAUSE,
You opened up my eyes
You offered me first prize,
To...

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Categories: great divide, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Stairway To Heaven
I'll build a stairway to heavens gate,
Climb the spirals into the great divide.
There your name I'll defiantly state,
I'll wait until they let me come inside.

As...

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Categories: great divide, imagination, loss, sad, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Pass'If'Ick, At:Land:Ick
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Pass.if.ick

while listening to the Pacific
w)aether(, (woe)ter from eyes
pool into the soul
wanting to gush, saever--

to create a great divide
between memory and heart,
forcing to un-feel

in a dumb...

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Categories: great divide, absence, allusion, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Burnt Remains Lost Without Peace
Darkness you have a funny way of shading the light 
colour coding from such a pit spinning the web of deceit 
clouds within suffering victims...

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Categories: great divide, betrayal, color, conflict, death,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Dysfunctional Inner Peace
The scorpions creeping out from words slowly, acutely framing
where judgement claims the higher position unconditionally 
lone vulture hanging over its unsuspecting prey ready to pounce...

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Categories: great divide, conflict, deep, prejudice, pride,
Form: Quatrain
Why Hides the Sun His Face As In Defeat
LXXVIII 
Why hides the sun his face as in defeat?
The day is done and this ninth hour had come
As sorrows flood with tears that grace...

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Categories: great divide, death, forgiveness, god, good
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Way of Peace
The climate of the world is alarming; we are at odds with each other,           ...

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Categories: great divide, peace,
Form: Narrative
Dysfunctional Inner Peace
The scorpions creeping out from words slowly, acutely framing
where judgement claims the higher position unconditionally 
lone vulture hanging over its unsuspecting prey ready to pounce...

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Categories: great divide, analogy, character, feelings, mythology,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs