Best In The Beginning Poems

My father was a Poet in his bygone days
there were his ‘Ode to a Kite Hawk’ and poems on Indian ways.
He wrote of love for Mother and of David too
there were his words of Christian faith and a prayer or two.


When I used to know...

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In the beginning God said let there be light
Then God said, let there be poets
Then God said, let there be light poetry
Then God said, let there be all kinds of poetry
Then God said, let the poets multiply
Then the earth was full of poets
Hundreds of thousands...

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In the beginning God created the heavens and earth
And some think it all came by chance, what a big mirth
That life arose by itself from chemical soup and from it birth
Soup formed by unceasing rain on the volcanic hearth
For this theory came when none knew...

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How did it all start
  Was there really a 'Big Bang'
Or is that just code for
  ex nihilo* we sprang

What if there's really a Creator
  Who fashioned the world 
     then Adam and Eve

If He put the snake...

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In the beginning
what we may call noumena
from a singularity unfathomable 
the very first outpouring of God’s breath
created what we now see as vastness of space

but what space is we yet know not

the boundaryless inky black void of nothingness 
a bubble of manifestation came into being
occupied...

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Depending on the tradition, you hear:
There was nothing, or there was chaos.
No time, no space, not even a single atom
 
Not a ray of light, a whisper,
No scent of papaya or rivers.
 
            ...

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The beginning has begun – light breaks through a broken past.
I walked around the turn and jumped through the looking glass.
I dizzied in the bend, and knew it wouldn’t last,
my battleship has sunk… the flag now at half-mast.

A garden I now grow, and tend it...

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They say that God created man
but not in just one night

Did he also create those we've seen
in flying discs so bright?

That were seen so many years ago
and carved upon the caves

That landed in the desert sands
and mingled with the slaves

That crossed the oceans rapidly
in the...

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The Lord he created the heavens and Earth,
the firmament, land sea and sky,
the flora, the fauna, and Adam and Eve
as the Bible says, but I ask why
does it not mention some of his finest designs
that we enjoy, living life to the full,
and without them all,...

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These nights are solid gold
illuminated with the essence of word
Chinese faces and African soul
So many truths go untold
Lies will always charge a toll

So does temptation burn in you
Are Do you live a lie with no sin
Do you know Were your going
And remember were you been

Because...

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in the wake of the
morning, my soul is set free
when listening to the subtle
keys of blowing breeze
and when I see the sun rise
in waves of crimson, orange
and gold, my mind is at ease

 



Third theme in Brian Strand's "Interval" contest...

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In the beginning there was man woman and bird and then there was see 
when the spirit of God moved inside them, they were all flown in for free 
At the very start God gave His will full hand but then he released free will...

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Taunting Winter's became the seasons in life, for most of us
Various their storms have proudly brewed; running 
As fast as we can within tiny circles, we have thus so ran
Innocent precious babies; oftentimes, these little eyes
Flowing with salty tears; if in fact but a metaphor...

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When we first met it had seemed such a sure bet,
that it wasn't a bet at all.
It was visceral, a feeling originating from deep within.
If we were in the same room, or far away
it was as if we swallowed powerful magnets,
and were drawn to each...

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I started to write a poem about God and planet Earth on April 14th 20126. I thought a short poem I'd write, alas I did not get that right. As I wrote throughout the night. Almost a book I seemed to write. I hope it...

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