Best Lasting Poems

Humble this moment under skies of grey
Reading poems of furtive words wrote with you,
Contemplating where you are now this day
With an ascetic mind of times we knew.

The love we shared on a day once like this
A time so long ago the spring of youth,
My heart...

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All I have 
of lasting value
is my heart to give

the antiques
in the attic
just gather dust

plastics become brittle
and metal to rust

cloth disintegrates

and if sentiments on cards alone
what true value is a poem?

as museums 
need constant
renovation --  

an indentured
in and out curator --

while the heart stays...

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Emotions flare
While hope whispers 
Do not give in to anger

Fight the need 

To say things you will regret
Words you can’t take back  
Pain fashioned by fury
Somehow leave a lasting scar

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A better man, she’d never met.
Within a month, their stage was set.
Each was the other’s biggest fan.
She’d never met a better man.

A love so sweet, he’d never felt.
With lovely ring in hand, he knelt.
Their future plans were then complete.
He’d never felt a love so sweet.

In...

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I heard her singing to the morn
Soft and still, as if meant to warn
Where the black night dwindles to day
There is a joy that’s sure to stay

Whisper of the bluebird in flight
Rising from the murkiest night
Honest as one who kneels to pray
There is a joy...

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My Lasting Letter


I have written these words
a thousand times, each time
so differently identical.  They
have been written on the wind,
blessed by the idle warmth of
sunset, scratched into the 
setting concrete of a life.
I have breathed them in the sighs
of simple joy, basking in the
laughter of...

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Lasting Treasure (2/11/23)

Lord, in this Bread
I see Thy Face
Bread that’s not bread
Sight of which, the only trace

O Jesus, Your countenance
With radiance shines
Garment of white
This beauty, Thine

Highest Priest, adorned in glory
Red stole, Your mercy reminds us of
Your Body and Blood always given
On Your altars from Above

Your...

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Since you’ve come into my life everything has been so new.
I never thought I had it in me to love another the way I love you.
You’ve opened my eyes and given me what I desire.
That’s why when I see your precious face its sets my...

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It starts out and ends up with Love
   for a partner you think the world of
Yet the middle poses daily tests
   where the verdict of a marriage rests

To list all these tests would take a book
   So let's just...

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I waited and waited but maybe 
the time has passed...
Just one last time , a look, a
smile, something to grasp...
The birds fly over head so free
and so tranquil...
I watch them all, each flight not
new but never dismal...
Maybe one bird will have a note
that might say...

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~The Ever Lasting Love Of A Child~

You live and still living through thee only love that can last a 
whole life time between us,that same love we knew yesterday 
when we were born remains with us today, tomorrow, and after
tomorrow.

A love so deep that only...

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How the thought of her smiling, sick, rude face
     repels me. What ever was I thinking?
My time lost in her sickening embrace 
     was loathsome, base, gross, foul, vile, and stinking!
O, why gave I myself to one...

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It feels long ago.
When I first got to hold.
The tenderness of love so bold.
And I stored the folklore.
Should in case everything go.
That I may have memories of 
gold.
Living on for eons, never seen 
before....

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If you allow my love to
enter then the fear will
will surely go away

The doubt which tries to
creep in as a genuine love
seeks now to stay

If you let my love enter pass
the invisible walls which you
have set in place

Then nothing will hinder the
beginning progress of a...

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Still as the color gray, stone cold
And unfeeling,
Like a sorrow that has been paid
By the heart who loves, loves gently,
Gladly, with sincerity and affection,
A trembling sense of joy and generosity
Raining light full of blessings.

Silent as the crisp, cool winter, bitter
And stifling the feelings
Who bleed light,...

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