Best Looked Toward Poems

LIFE'S UNDISCOVERED PASSION 

I reached up far to touch a star.
It only took a second.
I thought I heard a salient call 
alas it did not...

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Eleven horses traipsed single file toward home
The scudding clouds threw a snowflake now and then
A Brown bear sniffed the air and looked toward his den
...

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I came to thee by the Rumbum tree,
when you were the height of the grasshopper's knee,
Came a trumping sounded as a fruit fell free,
landing with...

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On the course at Coomealla where the Murray River wends,
Golfers hit their balls and miss the kangaroos,
Now their aim is not to hit them where...

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I’m the unknown gardener my name is mentioned in the bible, but no one need honor me. Just a pauper, I was in the garden...

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The seasons passed beyond the glass doors
I could see in detail each of their days
As I wheeled my chair forward-
No one day remained the same
You...

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When I didn't know how I was going to pay my bills;
It was already done.
When I fought being in the Master's will,
It was already done.

When...

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“I’m the unknown gardener my name is mentioned in the bible, but no one need honor me. 
Just a pauper, I was in the garden...

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She was such a wee thing, bouncing when she walked.  You could hear Ireland in her voice.  Countless days and nights she waited,...

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The world shifted a bit when I walked inside,

my resolution blind to the choke of memory.

It wasn't even you, just your little sister..

I still wanted...

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I dug and dug and broke out of jail,
the warden searched not finding my trail,
for while he looked toward east
I was not there in the...

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There once lived a young man, his wife, daughter, and two sons.
One year, Christmas along with the money had come and gone.
It was now the...

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He looked toward the east,
to the angry,
darkened sky,
then the clouds cry....

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Growing up that age,we‘ve grown out
  Of mothers bosom into streets,
  With sown leather that bounces
  Up and down among us,
 ...

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The young girl had come to live with them 
that summer.

The young girl told the older step-sister that
Her initials were the same as hers.

She asks:...

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