Best Lanier Poems

“S” 
by Lanier Thomas

So,
Seeing
Successful
Salubrious
Senators sitting
Supposedly serving
Silently subordinate
Society, so sickening
Stomachs, several sundry sullen
Students spurned supporting such senators....

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By the Water's Edge

Georgia, with gilded glow imprinted in my mind.
Lake Lanier an island paradise divinely dwells
By the water's edge in haunting hue of cerulean blue
Where today we pledge vehement vows of love
In nature's pure pulchritude in transcendent twilight
Reflecting rich sunrays in your effervescent eyes.
My...

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HEARTS

                        Somewhere back in time it started,
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It’s cotton for snow in a village I know 
with each house in its place on a shelf.
And an angel is there, high in the air 
In the top of our tree, by its self.

It’s a manger scene of ceramic and sheen,
And the Christ child...

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“I Am”, said God to Moses
You tell the Israelites:
“I AM has sent me to you”.
I Am the truth and light.

I am the very air you breath
I am your best friend 
I am with you alway
I am, and will not end.

I am the gentle breeze you...

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I'd love to spend a day with you
And make it last a lifetime.
We'd fin through waters deep and blue,
And walk bare-foot through morning dew.
I'd hold your hand, and say to you,
"I love you", in the morning.


And then the day would be half spent
The morn would...

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Myth of the peculiar pelican
Whose bill bloodies its feathery breast
Feeding blood to the chicks in its nest
Ancient acts ever evangelic
Sole sacrifice for the pelican
Whose beak speaks more than a relic can






36 Words  6 Lines  Light Verse
Pelicans appear in Christian iconography
as symbols to verify...

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Fair are my dream souvenirs of flowery fields.
Fairer still are my thoughts of you when I awake.
The magic of your memory over me wields
A secret sorcery that only you can make.
I am completely yours, my heart is held captive.
I have no will of my own...

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Evening about you reminds me of the Sun
You are light and diaphenous warm and sultry
Like a thousand summer solstice or alchemists spells
You are as bright as Venus the morning star
I would like to bathe in your sunny afternoon's

By, Michael Lanier...

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Sea Waves
by Lanier Thomas


Breathe the salty air
Hear the waves caress the shore
Find peace in one’s soul...

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She weeps
carelessly spilling more and more tears
I have caused this tsunamis
there is no word to comfort her
Instinctively, we warm each tear in the palms of our hands
carefully listening to what they each said
Just in case we forget how to speak

By, Michael Lanier...

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Understanding
by Lanier Thomas

Sitting by the campfire
Under the burning stars
I think of what my life
Has brought to me in scars.
I suddenly realize
In the flickering glow
These have brought true delight
And it was only thus
My soul was made aright
And I am what I am.
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Eagle
by Lanier Thomas

Safely soaring above the sky
The eagle continues to fly,
On stately wings that glide on air
Like drifting dreams without despair.
Onward over the horizon it goes
And calls us to follow its repose.

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There’s a Monster Watching TV With Me!
by Lanier Thomas

I know there is a monster watching over my shoulder.
I wouldn’t think that if I were only a bit older.
I feel it whenever I watch cartoons on my TV.
I think it enjoys each and every one as...

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If Not For Christ
by Lanier Thomas

If not for Christ I am aware I’d be dead.
When I was young I was quite out of my head.
The wrong things controlled me. I thought it was I.
Jesus still loved me. I have no idea why.

Like a light in...

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