Best Lessening Poems

I  s l i p p e d  on a teardrop and landed in her arms. She never knew how much I needed...

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The day you died you took me with you,
The way you lied shook me black and blue.

The sorrow you felt, I sure felt it too,
The...

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"Alas! The lessening light, the worsening my plight-
My face- a somber expression..." excerpt  from 
*a poem by Just That Archaic Poet


The summer of my...

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The Call

For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I...

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Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                  ...

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missing link unknown
her death my pity hindrance 
lessening of growth

regressed innocence 
before successful progress
life’s impediment

severe frustration
defeated bloodline mourning
extinct from her loss

thirsty...

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Sifting for lamb in a wolves pack
Like searching for a needle in a hay stack
Predator's parameter on a scale of gourmet
Lessening time warble with each...

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Waiting for a beam of light to shine on window pane
Wishing for a breath of air to whisk away the haze
Hoping every moment for a...

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Never could Christmas mourning grip my heart
Since Christ in His birth* sealed me by His love
Granting me eternal life thru faith-start
With blessings and peace from...

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She sits beside the fire
As failing embers dim.
Lost smoke trails up the chimney . .
Like dreams she’d shared with him.
 
She sits and grieves for...

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YinYin,
what did you most appreciate
learning at school this summer?

Probably in Community ReForesting.
You know, the EcoTherapy Class
I took
instead of eating lunch,
using "lunch" loosely
as synonymous with edible,
or...

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....and the door opens,
a yawning chasm.
I then ask myself
to cross the threshold.

A yawning chasm,
of fears and anger.
To cross the threshold,
is to accept them.

Of fears and...

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Everywhere she went
She sprinkled some ashes
Leaving a part of him
Releasing a bit more of her sadness
lessening that ache
as she celebrated him
remembering his goodness

I was not...

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ENTRENCHED TIME (IS) EMBEDDED NOW!

Procreate and multiply for generations and generations to come.
Expand the universe to the knowledge known.
The knowledge of life formed through the...

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The farther along life's road I go
I'm losing ground, moving slow
I huff and puff, grunting as though
I'm putting on a one-woman show

Still, it's comforting to...

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