Best Long Run Poems

While traveling ‘cross such harsh terrain 
     left parched and barren from the sun 
   and weeks without a...

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COLORS for MOTHER,

Looking towards the blue sky
Every color camouflaged around the cloud
Tears of sadness began to dry
Watching all the colors display out loud

The dark needing...

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(continued from A Year Of Months (January-June)
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/heroic_crown_of_sonnets_-_part_one_772928


A Year Of Months (July-December)

8. July

July now follows summer's song of June;
with sun ablaze, her days are humid, warm.
Great...

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[This excerpt from a memoir I wrote 20 years ago seems sadly apropos given the recent mass murders and bombings]

This then is where my faith...

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Decisions good, decisions bad
Either way it's happy or sad
Losing a job, or losing a friend
It's hidden but stays until the end.

Life's challenges are not really...

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Smoke comes off the chimney tops
Trails behind the breeze as the rain drops
Hurdles under the clouds to seek shelter
Disappears in the vapor of a darkest...

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Bang, there goes another.
Another life, another meaning,
Gone. Gone like the rain in the desert
Never to return.

It’s the sad truth that our children
Our teenagers

Cannot live in...

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i ask my self why!
the sky is always blue?
why the  sun  shining
when i always look at you?


i ash my self why.
you glow in...

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I have just reached the end of the school year
giving my last lesson to the last group, as it were
Unlike before, not quite content with...

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I was with my daughters at their favorite playground.  I watched them chase each other 
around the merry-go-round.  Laughing and enjoying the extremely...

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Take care, for what you plant
will later be your harvest
Sweet or bitter, it's your choice my friend
Cast not forth seeds of anger
nor bitterness nor fear
The...

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how thankful
i am
for the blessings
in my life

the many freedoms
i often take
for granted

mostly
the freedom
to direct my life
as i choose

it bearing no price tag
and in the long...

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Oh, I
I will
I will try and do my best;
While allowing God to do the best;
He's my provider;
And my guider, 
He's better to me than I've...

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You can give up that nasty habit if you try.
Just think of all the things your money will buy.
Each one of those houses is a...

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Thinks he's on some cool ish
But really on some bull ish
The type of dude that
You want nothing to do with

This is the type of dude...

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