Best Inescapably Poems

September’s almost coming to its end. 
The shining green that clothed the trees in June
Has darkened as the shorter days impend;
Their battered leaves will presently...

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The sea is so bright and it illuminates the nostalgic night
It sways and sways to the rhythm of my young heart
The clouds are formulating right...

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plausible patience petered out
   awareness inverted 
            beyond the setting sun
alongside mirror...

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At the center of my orbit,
You were Jupiter, huge, remote,
Surface roiled by raging storms.
I was a dim, distant moon --
A tiny ice-bound clod
Eternally held at...

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Poet's Pre-Notes: A poem from my 8th week in a Stanford continuing education class offered on the internet, a study of free verse and structure....

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My dearest troubled humans,

This is the bitter voice of Appreciation of old that

You are hearing

The one that, once upon a time, people much revered

But

The younger...

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‘TURQUOISE-- INTUITIVE PAUSE’

Mixed hues of green and blue- Peace, calm a tranquil view
Retiring from the world at times- a temporary loner paradigm
Refreshing compassion, aquamarine cool—swimming...

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Days pass...
Seasons change...
Months meld into years,
And we stand looking back at our lives--
Childhood memories,
Exciting moments,
Crises,
And turning points.
In january we think of new beginnings;
In february of...

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When but a child the world seems set in stone.
Too soon this cozy surety fades and dies;  
And verities, like passing clouds, are flown,...

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Childhood memories
Brief - impactful moments in our lives
Profound neurological occurrences
Strongly anchored in our subconscious mind

Like an iceberg in the deep blue ocean
Immersed are the feelings...

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three score and ten
eighty , ninety when
all too soon incised
souls inescapably fly
away

time when life ends
purpose transcends
an appointment met
life’s book read with
candor

death comes to all
times last...

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Come, lay thy kisses on my body
A sacred tribute be thy sweat
Exalt my each and every chord
Oh spike, deep thrusted in my being

Will be my...

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Wandering human beings each 
Enslaved by personally true doctrines of the existence or
Inescapably twisted with the nonexistence of the Existing One 
Rampantly whirls around to...

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Told we were safer to stay a home...
The rising water in evening gloam,

Told us how wrong we were to believe...
Picked up our pets and prepared...

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George Fulwider
1837-1918

My beating-heart age,
Reached the half century mark,
When I and my “better second,”
Found hopeful roots,
And an oleander trellis,
On burgeoning Philadelphia street, 
Here in this Quaker...

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