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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Light leavens leaden doors.

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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When I first beheld my creation
And held you in my arms
I determined I would obliterate
Anything that would try to bring you harm

When I suckled you...

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