Best Naturedly Poems

HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.

Firefighters bow heads in silent paean, 
while polished trucks stand at attention.
Families have again answered the call
to attend this festival,...

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"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." 

She became a leaf on a tree, a speck of dust,...

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Who can understand why war still exists where
there are clouds reflected in water here

History has proven its futility
even the breeze has a peaceful touch

The graves of the fallen state “they died for us”
Lizards bask on warm stones 

where we could not imagine
the compassion of our...

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Oh! The rivers flow quietly
The wind blown naturedly
Angels toured mvezo Village
Looking for a man
To bring forth, oh! To bring forth
Emancipation to South Africa

Noquphi Nosekeni the privileged woman
Answer to the call of nature July 18, 1918
Baby Nelson Mandela touched the land of apartheid
He grew like an...

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Crushed coquina’s pains, salty air consoled. 
Mistrusting soul, my heart could not appease.
We met when life was brimming and potholed.
My spoken words were long lost memories.

Relentlessly the past remained in view.
Romantic strolls along the shore soon died.
Again and again past pain stole love’s venue.
Good-naturedly, he...

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Morning Coffee

by Edmund Siejka


The night before
A soft rain had fallen
Traffic lights,
Hitting the streets 
At just the right angle,
Transformed wet asphalt
Into long shiny ribbons.

Pulling into the Diner
He saw that most of the tables were taken
But there was one left
All the way in the back.

She was there
Calling...

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The seasons change and time dies go by,
but your heart is never gone;
you did not die.

Your spirit reigns over a thousand rivers.
You're the warmth when the darkness shivers.

You are the sovereign winds glorifying the skies.
You are the starlit tears in a million eyes.  

Soft...

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Who can understand why war still exists where
there are clouds reflected in water here
History has proven its futility
even the breeze has a peaceful touch
The graves of the fallen state “they died for us”
Lizards bask on warm stones 
where we could not imagine
the compassion of our...

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The seasons change and time dies go by,
but your heart is never gone;
you did not die.

Your spirit reigns over a thousand rivers.
You're the warmth when the darkness shivers.

You are the sovereign winds glorifying the skies.
You are the starlit tears in a million eyes.  

Soft...

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The seasons change and time dies go by,
but your heart is never gone;
you did not die.

Your spirit reigns over a thousand rivers.
You're the warmth when the darkness shivers.

You are the sovereign winds glorifying the skies.
You are the starlit tears in a million eyes.  

Soft...

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Good-naturedly, he sweetly-chides 
His heart bears my flirtatious side 
With adulation, I’m well pleased.
My love, awaits I am at peace-

My soul, desires his special touch
I love his being very much.
Mine heart leaps with joy I’m at ease
My love, awaits I am at peace-

His love for...

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I feel as one…now
With the grass and trees
Part and parcel 
Of capricious breeze
Feel the need to fall
Upon my knees
And beg…“let me linger
A little longer please”

I feel a certain sadness
Perhaps more sure
A certain madness
In my humble
And bumbling
Clumsy. Stumbling 
Pleas

I feel somehow 
More related
(tho’ perhaps 
A bit...

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The damage was done
he was hung on a cross,
a ragdoll now
his body crucified by last words.

Idle soldiers cast dice for his torn garments.
One stopped in mid-throw - a spearpoint of doubt
had cut his mind open and right there and then
he began to weep.
His companions jeered...

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good-looking gorgeous gregarious godmother of mine 
guards graceful gracious grateful great-grandma so fine 
giddy girls giving genuine gumdrops, guiding GIs to Guinea,
Generating ghastly ghostly gibberish unheard by many, 
Gently germinating geometric gelatin a plenty.
Golden goggles glowing good-naturedly
I like these giddy girls who giggle wholesomely....

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Emergency Circumstances 

A heavyweight contender for the Consellation Crown
A ready to wait pretender of a serious genuine frown 
A street sweeping vendor in the middle of a mid-western town
A parcel marked return to sender while the  is going down

There is no knight or white...

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