Best Leavens Poems

Every resonance

that seems to bring into life

It makes one's being

a likely confounded mind

yet leavens its fleshliness


03/25/16

Note: 

* "Like a bee in a bottle"
is an idiomatic expression of 
resonance

*Thus, this poem has something
to do with the law of resonance

4th placer in a contest (April 23, 2016)...

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please meet me as the sun is setting
by the old mill road
we’ll spend an evening not forgetting
sharing heart’s abode

we’ll take a stroll down to the river
by the city park
and cling together as we quiver
feeling chill at dark

then count the stars up in the heavens
lying in...

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Homey eyes of peasant stew
A cozy-colored mossy mew
Stony cottage, snowcheeks bleu
The forest fins for frosted fruits.

The warmest thought speaks crumbly bread
A partridge purr puffs through my head
That grants the grunkest grue a ‘Get!’
To packrat out the paquerettes.

Don’t see the speech I say with sneer
As something...

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She is adorn in henna blooms
Her lips as red as crimson
Her fragrance fills rooms like pillars of smoke
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense
 
Betrothed to One Husband  
A marriage of minds
A virgin hard to find
A chaste virgin Bride
She is called to be Holy
Pure and intolerant...

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Sands of Time

these grains of sand passing by I find
are like the memories of lives gone past
and as these sands of time flow through my mind
I wonder when I will find the key at last

living in caves searching the heavens
fishing in streams and hunting my...

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An adjustment of ageless allure,
Buzzing bees, chirping birds,
Conversations confused, girls play coy.
Disconcerted; demanding; desire.
Early stages evolving each day,
Form like fiddleheads frolicking free.
Geographically girls giggle and grow.
Heartache upon heartache, puppy loves. 
Inquisitiveness highlighting “I.”
Joys and joviality gyrate.
“K-I-S-S-I-N-G” song starts.
Love laughing like time never ends…lost.
Multifaceted mysterious.
Nervously naughty...

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If a poem or essay can end with a conclusion or its opposite, either one,
Can it be of any use to anyone?

Do the discrepancies and disparities, dualities and densities, reflect only
      the dementia
Of the bearer of the pencil?

First entertain, then...

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A bang rattles the heavens,
The earth shakes, jiggles, and leavens.
Silence swarms hell. Black darkness!
Humans wonder, panic at the madness!
Close to an hour, darkness prevail.
Close to an hour, hearts fail.
"What happened?" whispers creep in fear.
Then thunder booms from heaven's rear.
Light balloons, sweeps the world.
A voice rings,...

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Light leavens leaden doors.

Genealogies of genocide are lost
      in long night rides through thistled trees,
                        dark reunions...

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A meal worm eats me like a gourd of flesh,
     this slimy beast I dread; two weeks or more
until my heart's (that once was young and fresh) 
     a hole that brims with the plaque of its...

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The Lever (1) of Faith
*
The lever we need to move earth, if not heavens,
is Science, my friend, not your ‘take’ on our Bibles
(some mindfart of personal prejudice)! Players
take truth out of context to justify evil.
The ‘Saved’ aren’t much better, board Grace like ark’s lifeboat,
think the...

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The Bijou Gift 
David J Walker

Lifestreams from mountains 
Into pools of liquid blue 
From heavens golden fountains
On paths that we once knew

The sun shines on halos 
A prisms filtered awed 
A mystery Incognito 
Reveals the face of God

Clouds part the heavens
The fog must surely lift
consultation...

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When existential angst and doubt meet faith,
     the saved hold on and cleave unto their God
through prayer; like Job's wife, apostates oft' saith
     “Curse God and die!” when lightning strikes the rod:

consumed by the bolt's power, it...

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Know ye not,
a little leaven leavens the whole lump
Mix in a few little lies,
and make the unleavened bread rise
Puffed up full of pride
Mix in a little leaven,
and you gotta toss the whole batch out
Same as when Satan got tossed out of heaven
Know ye not,
a little...

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A little leaven leavens the whole lump,  
A moment of festering,
The whole body is thrown off balance,
The whole body is out of coordination, 
A moment of taking off the eyes,
A moment of negligence,
Wound festers and pesters the body,
It is infected and 
defects the body’s...

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