Best Narrows Poems

This bridge has arched the lake's narrows
for a century, flanked on either side
by Autumn trees shedding their faded leaves,
blowing with the first snowflakes
across worn gray...

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 I once had your love which sailed on the shores of sorrows,
Broken hearts did shove the tears thru echoes of morrows…
For it is only...

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Not sure what it is
about this land
that grabs you
but I was grabbed
long ago.

Trip ends today,
last night I stayed up late, 
sipping remaining whisky
as the red...

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Give a pigeon just a smidgen
And his friends will flock to share
While each sparrow’s focus narrows,
Wond’ring if it’s worth the dare.

Soon a robin may come...

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"...when power narrows the areas of man’s concern, 
poetry reminds him of the richness
and diversity of his existence...” 
--John F. Kennedy

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Soldiers of our armed forces,
Iraq,...

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freedom lies with a shattered grace
stumbling toward atomic mythology
where answers have their sins washed
brilliantly bright as suns dyeing skin off-
colors of rumors circulating planets
of the...

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Let me take you on an adventure,
Through insanities doors, to the land of dementia.
I guarantee you will be spellbound,
While holding on for dear life, riding...

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COUNTRY STREAM

Gentle flow and sky blue
With a thatch hut reflected
See a multitude of ducks
And they as good as proprietors

Oh the simple wash of it all
Lazy...

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Izzy you're dizzy you'll need to explain
Exactly HOW many players are in your brain.
~But I can't they won't understand.
~I've tried this before and I lost...

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Sleeping In Nana’s

day concludes in glory
beyond the forest wall
suspended on a whippoorwill’s song

a muffled out board glides the narrows
past Hick’s farm
humming its sated fisher home

somewhere...

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The Deep Solemn Prayer And Sincerest Of Hopes

I walked myself to that great sacrifice stone
Aware of multitude of sins, I must atone.

Forever seeking path to...

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Upon this pebbled path I tread 
wistless in wonder 
in heat and thunder 
on such a simple journey 
just me (a man) and my moon...

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Drenched of hell’s insanities 



Sending chills this tortured spine, 
as aches precede the worded fiction
Sorted truth does rest sublime 
beneath the light of benediction
Broken dreams...

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L,

As pre-dawn makes her mark
and daylight shadows emerge 
reflecting off the shimmering sea
there is no time to waste

beauty pinned tight inside restful eyes
shut to the...

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"To Touch That Blessed Word"
What is the difference? 
how must i know?
 but infatuated with your cool glance and clothes 
infatuated with how you made...

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