Best Integral Poems

You try to dismiss those feelings
you've hidden deep within your heart.
Yet, you dream of a fantasy
where lust is an integral part.

Innocence and sin commingle,
often blending...

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have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you...

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A Tree

I’m a tree lining a country road
Along with hundreds of other
Trees in the direction of a verdant
Forest—full of scenic wonder and 
Teaming with life.

All...

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When young I heard the glass was either ½ empty or ½ full
But with time I learned… to believe either one makes you a fool

My...

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THE PHASES OF GRIEF
bereavement pain physical
spiritual and philosophical 

SHOCK & DENIAL
can’t find relief
overwhelming numbed disbelief

PAIN & GUILT
unbearable preemptive suffering 
remorseful chaos excruciating

ANGER & BARGAINING
growing bitter...

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It was not the mountains.. those that dwarf us,
the forests that invited our senses...seduced us to stay.
Nor the oceans whose mass we contained within us,
creatures...

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Some people you meet ...

Creep their way into your being
Like a kitten chasing shadows and dust
The pounce FAR more important than the prey
Little bits of...

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TRUE ...

You know not those dark
Places, mine, the dull, black
Chasms that hold a mind
When it's bare - stark and

Keen and cold ... when it's
Left with...

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Dear Heart,

You are the great fulcrum of the human machine 
So integral to keep us alive and leave us healthy 
I know you work incessantly...

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I don't look at stars anymore.
As a boy I would sneak out into the night
to hear the horses and barn mice
chewing over their hurts and...

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Color is an integral part of my life, essential in
physical descriptions, a blessing to language. 
Colors are perfect subjects for character sketches.

For one perusing the...

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The Power of Love

God’s eternal message is “The Power of Love.”  
The power of love is magical and enchanting,
The power of love is exciting...

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Here I am again, wanting more
standing upon the threshold to enter your door.
You have become part of what I am
not the essence, no
but certainly an...

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I …

recognize your reflection ...
you're the eminent master-of-disguise
but I know you better than most
and all your faces are mine ...
you're Le Grand Séducteur, the big...

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Lavish locks sprawl pillowed in peace this morn.
Gently whiskered cheeks hint of last night's lipstick
Tensions banished blue grassy fiddling lingers
Let's take it easy

I'll make the...

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