Best Millstones Poems

“Daisy Hill”
a garden to please
distant,  yet ever near
         in splendid hue.
Yet here now
the chill of winter’s
wrath,...

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(on the basis of Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata)


Be calm, because it's vanity of vanities,
reach harmony taking a truce.
Be generous, despite “in vino veritas” 
all in the...

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*Image of Excitement Unlocked giphy by Escape Hunt.

Time

Life millstones pressures creation to sort
through essential time, balms the albatross
over seasonable means, paid in court.

A past fraught...

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I have a passion to hold a lamp aloft,
to capture one acre of starshine
before the sun writes a new dawn.

Rusting Chevys bloom in the half-light.
Nightjars...

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Love’s Sonnet

Tattered womb, shred by sharp blades of regret,
Weighed down by rough millstones, dark as shame,
Pale dawn stumbles from midnight to forget -
Stinging acids scar...

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The man lay painfully wedged between two large boulders, 
his position an anomaly only the cruelest of fates could bring to a man. 
 In...

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I am a monster
A tormented work of God’s hand
I will roll over you
Like a storm
Because that I am

My energy will attract you like a swarm...

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Cars One

A coffin for your children
A hearse for your fat missus
A burden on the mother earth
We will not be forgiven

A curse to city dwellers
A blessing...

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I want with destiny be friends.
So it will never leave me.
Like when millstones start to grind,
And life turns dark and wild.
.
As loyal friend will save...

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I can't surrender you; you are mine
But I've depleted the comfort denial gave
Your relief, I must redefine
There is no life left in prolonged death
My love...

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Earth offers outdoor organic classes
in Cooperative Health Proposal Design
and Revolutionary WinWin Research Writing
for restoring WinLeft/WinRight nutritional justice
and co-empowering bilateral peace.

Earth rises and sets permaculture designers
for...

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Between each limping breath
the sky pulsates blanched green searing,
each day inspired by gray blight, each day
the firmament harbors dense, blazing energy,
a circus troupe of skyward...

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As I come, for molarity 
without molars. 
No grinding was left 
in the millstones.

The family 
accumulates. My distorted shape 
will not accept 
the broken ankle.

Paraplegic,...

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Imagine 

Imagine…
A mansion among many promised mansions
On the banks of a river from blessing, 
Sparkling in the eternal sun,
A shoreline lined with trees
In the harmonic...

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The gristmill of war leaves its dead frozen
to lay on the blood soaked crusted floor of time
lifeless bent shapes, the ones chosen
in wars, caused by...

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